Posted on 06/06/2014 4:28:22 PM PDT by Altariel
HOLMES BEACH, FL — With the help of new technology and federal grant money, police are preparing to warrantlessly search people’s refreshments as they visit the beaches of Florida.
New passive alcohol detectors can simply be hovered above a person’s beverage to detect whether it contains alcohol. Similar devices can detect alcohol on someone’s breath.
“We can go up to anybody we want, OK? If we see something that looks like alcohol.” On Holmes Beach, even the mere possession of sealed alcohol containers is illegal. Police are using that as an excuse to inspect anyone’s beverage they choose.
“We can go up to anybody we want, OK? If we see something that looks like alcohol,” said Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer to WFLA.
“Our main demographic of concern is the younger generation,” the chief continued. “When you add the alcohol to the youth it doesn’t give you a more intelligent human being.”
The searches are facilitated by grant money from the federal government. Through the “Click it or Ticket” campaign of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), states and local police departments are encouraged to set up checkpoints and perform warrantless searches under the guise of road safety. If local police were not eager enough to violate citizens’ rights, bribes from the federal government all but ensure that departments across the USA are using military equipment and using dubious policing techniques.
Police State USA recently covered a NHTSA-funded program that paid for police checkpoints to be set up along the roads in 60 U.S. cities with the purpose of collecting DNA samples from drivers.
See WFLA’s coverage of the beverage inspections below:
(Excerpt) Read more at policestateusa.com ...
We can go up to anybody we want, OK? If we see something that looks like alcohol,” said Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer to WFLA.
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Enjoy your stay in the police state subjects.
Time to scratch Holmes Beach off the vacation destination list.
Either these cops are neglecting real crime, or there are too many of them. Imho.
And we wonder why people are becoming expatriates and even renouncing their citizenship.
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We used to get a giant coke icey at the 7/11 then put rum in it and hit the beach. The good old days. :-)
Not mutually exclusive choices.
I stand corrected. You are quite right.
If the president and the attorney general can use the constitution for toilet paper, why can’t the local cops?
That’s a big part of this problem.
I guess a person could see them coming and wade off into the water. Tell them to come and cuff me.
I tried that but the room temperature rum melted the icey immediately.
Meanwhile the locals are running riot. But don’t let the coppers catch you with a spot of rum in your coke!
Holmes Beach: on the Avoid Always bucket list. Well done chief!
For the cops, there is nothing hotter than a hottie in a teeny, tiny bikini wearing handcuffs.
Mystery solved...
Warrantless beverage inspections
“”I tried that but the room temperature rum melted the icey immediately.””
Back in the day, everyone I knew stored their rum in the freezer. Makes it some kinda smooth, also doesn’t melt your icee.
Re: “If we see something that looks like alcohol”.
Why don’t all the kids who got to Holmes Beach piss in glass bottles with beer labels on them, and let the cops start sniffing around?
That could be a Saturday Night Live skit, couldn’t it?
Cop to kid: “Hey kid. What do you have in that bottle?”
Kid to Cop: “Piss”
Cop: Don’t talk back to me. Give me that bottle. I’ve got to take a taste of it.
Cop: “Shit, that is piss. What are you trying to do, kill me?
Kid: “Hadn’t thought of that but thanks for giving me the idea”.
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