Oh yeah, never take the field sobriety tests. Those things are basically unpassable. Especially if you add the stress of being pulled over and the distraction of passing traffic. Breathalyzer only.
“Oh yeah, never take the field sobriety tests. Those things are basically unpassable. Especially if you add the stress of being pulled over and the distraction of passing traffic. Breathalyzer only.”
Actually this is a true story. I failed one once and I was sober. I was put under arrest and the first thing I did was demand the breathalyzer test. In fact I said to the officer “bring it out right now!” The officer then realized I was not drunk at 4 am just an over tired college student. He was running a special on drunk drivers that night so he told me to go home and go to bed.
I was later told by a cop friend of mine that demanding the breathalyzer right then was the best and right thing to do.
> Those things are basically unpassable. <
Yep. For one reason, they are extremely subjective. If a cop wants you to fail, you will fail, no matter what you do.
But I don’t believe a breathalyzer can catch drugs in a person’s system.
I sure wish there was an easy answer here. False arrests are terrible things. But so is letting a drug-impaired person go, to maybe kill someone further on down the road.
“ Oh yeah, never take the field sobriety tests. ”
Back in my rowdy days I passed many field sobriety tests.
The key is when they use the pen to check your vision. They say to watch the pen tip as they move it left to right and watch how your eyeball reacts when the pen goes out of your range of rotation. Thing is they don’t know where your range of rotation stops. If you have been drinking and watch the pen until it goes out of sight your eyeball flutters. But, if you stop your eyes rotation just before it reaches the furthest left or right, your eye ball does not flutter. Takes some practice but easily done with drinking friends.
Hat tip-to LEO buddy who taught me this.