| Re: [GMCnet] North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood [message #230449] |
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BIG BROTHER!
Howard
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> On Nov 20, 2013, at 8:51, Ken Burton <n9cv@comcast.net> wrote:
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> My daughter and I got stopped in Cannes, Australia in a similar check point. Since we were foreigners I figured we ought to comply. They stopped their with just the breathalyzer. I was driving but they tested us both.
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> I also got stopped in a similar check point on a 2 lane highway in Nebraska. I saw them giving breath tests to people in cars in line in front of me. When I got to the front of the line he said "Have you been drinking" and something about no front plate. I said "Indiana" and they waved me through.
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> I have never understood exactly what they can and can not do in the US at one of these check points. Even though I do not like it, I figure it is best to just comply and continue on my way when they find nothing.
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> Ken Burton - N9KB
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> Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked forSaliva, Blood [message #230508 is a reply to message #230474] |
Wed, 20 November 2013 15:59  |
Keith V
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| Robert Mueller wrote on Wed, 20 November 2013 13:10 |
Howard,
I repeat the question I posed to RC to you; if you had a loved on killed by a drunk on the road would you still feel the same?
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No but I know someone who was in a crash caused by someone texting while driving, so I suppose we will start having road blocks to inspect peoples call history to see if they were driving and texting?
I'm not a fan of the police state.
Keith Vasilakes
Mounds View. MN
75 ex Royale GMC
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| Re: [GMCnet] North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock AskedforSaliva, Blood [message #230561 is a reply to message #230512] |
Wed, 20 November 2013 19:13 |
jhbridges
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Well, the little two direction cameras the transit folks use should be cheap enough to put one in my coach, which I may well do.. Records tweny or thirty minutes and overwrites continuously. Feed it time and location from your GPS and then there's not a lot of question over how you and the car/truck/whatever tangled. Simply turn it slightly as the cop walks up and remove any question about what who said as well. I've never been stopped in the GMC, but I don't run over 60-65 MPH. I've never heard of one being searched except the famous Willie Nelson circumstance.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
From: Rob Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock AskedforSaliva, Blood
Keith,
The incident below is also ludicrous as is your proposed solution.
I gar-ron-tee Australia is NOT a police state; they took a common sense approach to solve a serious drink driving problem and it
worked.
Here's the solution to texting in New South Wales which I PERSONALLY experienced. I have a Samsung smart phone that I use as a GPS.
I was at a traffic light fiddling with it when a cop pulled up next to me and noted "that's a cell phone and if you touch it while
driving it's an automatic $200 fine." I noted "it's a GPS." He repeated; "it's a cell phone." I got the hint and said OK and put it
down.
Another pragmatic solution to a problem; I should have setup the GPS before I left home or pulled over and parked.
Regards,
Rob M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith V
No but I know someone who was in a crash caused by someone texting while driving, so I suppose we will start having road blocks to
inspect peoples call history to see if they were driving and texting?
I'm not a fan of the police state.
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Keith
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| Re: [GMCnet] North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock AskedforSaliva, Blood [message #230563 is a reply to message #230561] |
Wed, 20 November 2013 19:59 |
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On dash cameras are being heavily used in Russia. Lots of scam road incidents. I've seen some very funny video posted on YouTube. I have actually considered installing one. Need audio also, record the conversation at a stop. Bet this would have made the Ft. Worth stops interesting. Can you spell, "lawyer?"
Tom, MS II
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