I rarely wear underwear, but when I do, it's usually something unusual.
Posted on 09/21/2007 11:30:40 AM PDT by jmc813
Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, about an hour's drive west of Denver, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva.
"I don't think they're authorized to do what they're doing, and I view it as a gross violation of law-enforcement protocol," Roberto Sequeira, 51, told reporters for the Denver Post.
He said he and his wife were "detained" for about 15 minutes even after they protested they wanted to get home because of a sleepy child in their car.
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Sheriff's officials were apologizing after they helped set up and run five separate checkpoints over the weekend.
They said workers for the Institute for Research and Evaluation were overly persistent in their demands of innocent travelers.
"It was like a telemarketer that you couldn't hang up on," Undersheriff John Bayne told the newspaper.
Sgt. Bob Enney said the deputies' assistance to the organization involved stopping motorists at the sites along Colorado Highway 119 for "surveys" on any drug or alcohol use. Surveyors also requested that motorists submit to breath, blood and saliva tests.
Enney said several hundred motorists were tested, and some later complained.
Sequeira said he repeatedly asked if the questioners were law enforcement officials and said he was not interested in participating in the study, but still was not given clearance to leave.
He told the newspaper that he and his family were approached by two researchers, and even after his repeated refusals, officials offered his wife, who was driving, $100 to get the couple to take part in a breath test.
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Wow. What have you been doing?
you’d think one or more men would at least spit on them!
I rarely wear underwear, but when I do, it's usually something unusual.
The guys are busy-body grant whores.
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Award Total: $3,729,269 # of Awards: 7 Home Page:
Investigators
Carol Cunradi , Ph.D., M.P.H. - Harold Holder , Ph.D. - Juliet Lee , BA, MA, PhD - Robert Lipton , BA, MA, MPH, Ph.D. - Robert Lipton , BA, MA, MPH, Ph.D. - Roland Moore , BA, MA, Ph.D. - Roland Moore , BA, MA, Ph.D. -
Grants
Title Cycle [sort] Award
California AB13 compliance and ethnicity in urban bars 2003 (Cycle XII) $769,266
Investigator(s): Roland Moore , BA, MA, Ph.D. 12RT-0116
Context & consequenes of smoking in a blue-collar cohort 2005 (Cycle XIV) $426,555
Investigator(s): Carol Cunradi , Ph.D., M.P.H. 14RT-0116
Environmental contexts of smoking for Southeast Asians 2004 (Cycle XIII) $728,324
Investigator(s): Juliet Lee , BA, MA, PhD 13RT-0058H
Geography of underage tobacco retail sales in Los Angeles 2003 (Cycle XII) $622,260
Investigator(s): Robert Lipton , BA, MA, MPH, Ph.D. 12RT-0093
Model for surveillance of CA tobacco control policies 2001 (Cycle X) $325,761
Investigator(s): Harold Holder , Ph.D. 10RT-0102
Persistent smoking in bars: an ethnographic analysis 2001 (Cycle X) $482,317
Investigator(s): Roland Moore , BA, MA, Ph.D. 10RT-0276
The geography of tobacco related disease in California 2002 (Cycle XI) $374,786
Investigator(s): Robert Lipton , BA, MA, MPH, Ph.D. 11RT-0093
Who the he^^ is this “Institute” for whatever?
That is a totally bland title for anything, and I personally have never heard of it.
Sounds like a complete scam.
Shame on the Sheriff’s department for falling for the whole thing.
I smell serious lawsuits over this.
Total invasion of privacy of people who have done NOTHING wrong. The only saliva they would have gotten from me would have been spit in their faces.
WHO authorized “researchers” to take such data from ANYONE??????????
Note to self: deputies.
That’s what I’m thinking.
My personal opinion is that running over the criminals with badges with or without the warning or other deadly force would be fully justified in this case.
Including kidnapping. My guess that herds of lawyers are now converging on Colorado. It makes you wonder how stupid some people can be that they could try such a thing and not wonder about the legal consequences.
Technically, there's a fourth I can think of...These days parents routinely collect DNA samples from their children to keep handy in case of abduction or runaway situations...it used to be just fingerprints and photos. I fell victim to the third, and know the secrets of my personal innerspace are in some DoD database. But at least I procrastinated until the very last day to surrender it before I would have been in violation of the UCMJ.
Yeah, I would never actually do it (probably...) but I would sure be fantasizing about it all the while I was calling my lawyer.
We had a thing like that in Oregon several years ago but the “private” group was asking transportation questions, where are you traveling from and to and for what purpose, that sort of thing.
It was publicized in the media the day before and I knew they were going to be there. It was near the home end of a 70 some mile drive after a long day at work. I told them “right over your asses if you don’t get out of my way - now”. They were using civilian Oregon DOT trucks and cones to channel the traffic to the questioners.
It was a PIRG, if I recall - explaining my rude as possible response. I hate PIRGs with every fiber of my being.
And right - you can blow 0.0 and get a DUI. Heck, you can get DUI even if you are not, and have not been, driving.
It's almost as though they can give anyone a DUI any time they want.
That's not a problem though. I mean, if you're not guilty it ought to be easy enough to prove, right? </s>
My friends there’s any easy fix to this situation, the key word here is SHERIFF. He’s elected, either recall this idiot or elect a new sheriff. This is just more of big brother. I would not have complied and I was a sheriff.
They piss you off when they ask for money, huh?? You will probably be the first one to bitch when you have a medical emergency and they don’t have the appropriate equipment to treat you or someone you love. My area is covered by a volunteer fire department and their crews. I would give anything I could to assist in their efforts to improve services. By that’s only me. (sarcasm)
They piss you off when they ask for money, huh?? You will probably be the first one to bitch when you have a medical emergency and they don’t have the appropriate equipment to treat you or someone you love. My area is covered by a volunteer fire department and their crews. I would give anything I could to assist in their efforts to improve services. By that’s only me. (sarcasm)
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