Last fall just before the Christmas break, one of our local law enforcement entities put out a communique' regarding a new "ZERO tolerance" policy for drinking drivers. Basically, if you had consumed ANY alcohol WHATSOEVER, you would be given a 24 hour roadside suspension and your car would be towed to impound at your expense.
Today, I heard a radio advertisement wherein a member of one of our local police departments informed us that: "If you are stopped for any reason, and the officer thinks you MAY have smoked some pot, or done a line, or are under the influence of ANY drug whatsoever, a URINE SAMPLE will be demanded from you.
REFUSAL TO PRODUCE said sample will be subject to the SAME PENALTY as a positive test result.
THIS IS WHILE YOU'RE JUST DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD!!
For those of you that accepted and encouraged this kind of treatment for your children and co-workers, all I can say is: Welcome to the party, MORON! YOUR privacy is OVER, just like you wished upon others.
While this may be in BC (You know, where the Winter Olympics start in a week or so), you can rest assured that it WILL be tried in your neighbourhood soon.
And yet our FReeper Cops can't figure out why the cops are often held in disdain...
Enforcing bogus laws MAKES YOU BOGUS! ( I typed that slowly, so it could be read correctly)> If a law is STOOPID, don't even deign to consider it as enforceable. Contempt for the law does NOT need to mean contempt for the enforcers, UNLESS they enforce CONTEMPTIBLE laws!