Posted on 07/15/2010 3:16:44 PM PDT by FoxPro
An ex girlfriend’s son went to Texas to do some repo jobs and was paid $3000 cash. On his way him he got pulled in a rental car at 2:00am for speeding at 7mph over limit.
When the cops found the cash they decided he had just trafficked drugs, arrested him and impounded the car.
His mom called a local piece of sh_t lawyer who told her it was doom and gloom for the son unless she ponied up $15,000 for him to represent the kid. She did and the next day the charges were dropped.
I don’t drink either, the difference between us is that I never did.
I never get stopped and never see a checkpoint so I think you are the one with the psychosis. But maybe it’s not a psychosis when they are really out to get you.
FWIW, I still treasure my purchased copy of one of the first one-hundred that Dr. Dave sold...
Elk won't answer, but I will to further the discussion. Even though I feel the questions is irrelevant.
I have lost no loved ones due to DUI. I have never had a DUI. I haven't had a drink in years either.
I believe that DUI laws (and many others) are used as revenue collection.
FWIW: There is no Officer Warren listed for the Kingman PD on Ratemycop:
http://www.ratemycop.com/index.php?st=AZ&letter=&dept=13478
Do you deny the existence of DUI check points? I've been through then in NY, VA and CA.
I lost an 18 year old son to a Mexican who ran a red light and broad sided my sons car. I don’t know if he was drunk or not, didn’t matter my son was dead. As far as the DUI checkpoints, no I have never seen one but if you say they exist, then I believe you. I remember being stopped for a drivers license check but it was so many years ago (40 years) that I don’t even remember which state it was in. I am 70 years old and have been driving since I was 14 (you do the math) and I have been stopped maybe 4 times for speeding. I have driven all over the US in almost every state (many trips across New Mexico where elk lives) and I have never seen or been stopped for a DUI checkpoint.
We have them in California too: Sobriety Check Points. They do indeed exist. As I said, I've encountered them in many states. I do not drink, but my heart still races when I approach one.
I said I believe you but in my many (many) trips across New Mexico from east to west and north to south, on hunting trips, vacation trips, art workshops and just passing through to other places, we have never encountered a DUI check point. I have never noticed people being stopped at any kind of check point at all.
4:15 PM last saturday on Route 55, just west of route 340 in Front Royal, VA. I was a passenger and my friends who were driving pointed out the honest and crooked cops as we went by. At least our checkpoint had a mixture of both, but it did nothing more than collect a bit of expired sticker and seatbelt revenue.
He probably retired at 35, considering all the towing money he was raking in.
It is a toll tax. Happens all over the country and all over the world. As thuggery increases, this will increase.
I don’t doubt you. I used to live in VA and I never saw a checkpoint, but truthfully, it was a long time ago.
I got the first beta, man was it fast.
Does it still run?
Can you get a directory listing off of it?
There are lots of cops not on ratemycop, doesn’t mean anything, just that nobody has added him yet. It isn’t exactly a government database.
What's your excuse?
huh? I thought we finished this discussion back on July 17, that is over a month ago. Did you forget? Is your mind slipping? Wonder why? Maybe you better go back and read our conversation again.
Get a life.
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