Police breath testing

[98tls]

And the police wonder why the public don't respect them..

Is that 1 or 2 or are you speaking for the whole police force?

[kwaka_crasher]

For me, being hit by a drunk driver hurt a whole lot! And still does....

I understand that they are looking at the give way rule, but surely, with experience, one should be able to 'read' drivers as to whether they are going to give way to you or not! Good luck trying to 'read' the driver coming towards you if he's drunk!!

And I'm sure that being hit in either situation is going to hurt. Albeit, one is usually slow speed and the other (as in my case), the speed is astronomical...

I'm sorry but isolated anecdotal evidence does not modify my opinions. Or are you saying you're encountering drunk drivers in near misses on almost a daily basis?

Sure, you learn to pick the drivers ignorant of the GIVE WAY rule but you can also pick the impared ones, be it alcohol or just stupidity, to a similar degree. Often just seeing the vehicle is enough to raise suspicion and place me on alert - tissue box in the rear window, chandelier hanging from the rear vision mirror, stuffed toys on the dash etc.

[Ixion]

Is that 1 or 2 or are you speaking for the whole police force?

Just echoing their own Spokesplod. And their Minister (and the Prime Minister)

[98tls]

Just echoing their own Spokesplod. And their Minister (and the Prime Minister)

Fair call,didnt hear of it.All things said n done i simply cant understand the whinging over the March Hare business to be honest,full marks to em for doing it and doing it right outside the gate i say.I was there myself and can say without any doubt that if the testing had been done on one of the 4 roads out of Waimate with nothing at the gate then they would have had more than 5 .I may well have been one of em,no idea but what i do know is there presence at the gate made me realistic.

[BiK3RChiK]

I'm sorry but isolated anecdotal evidence does not modify my opinions. Or are you saying you're encountering drunk drivers in near misses on almost a daily basis?

Sure, you learn to pick the drivers ignorant of the GIVE WAY rule but you can also pick the impared ones, be it alcohol or just stupidity, to a similar degree. Often just seeing the vehicle is enough to raise suspicion and place me on alert - tissue box in the rear window, chandelier hanging from the rear vision mirror, stuffed toys on the dash etc.

You can be 'on alert' all you like, but IME, with a drunk driver who has lost control in the country on that bend up ahead and is sliding sideways down your lane.... well, being 'on alert' is going to do sweet fanny all! Cause y'see, this is not going well, you decide in all your awareness, I'll just go on the opposite side of the road to avoid him! But guess what? His car is losing speed as it slides (which you've failed to take into account in the rush of it all) and then all of a sudden it gains traction as he is wildly turning the steering wheel every which way, and then he crosses the centre line back into his lane only to collect you head-on at the centre line!

I think the scenario is a lot different to 'knowing' that fulla ain't gonna give way to me! I better haul up and let him through.... idiot that he is!

And No, I don't encounter drunks every day (or at least I hope not!) Just like I don't encounter people not giving way every day either. Actually, I think that's more of an effect of people's impatience and the 'need to be there now' mentality than anything else...

[scumdog]

I never give my name and address for the screening test.

Like the cops really care..


(Paranoid that they might remember it and wait for you on the way home??)

[kwaka_crasher]

And No, I don't encounter drunks every day (or at least I hope not!) Just like I don't encounter people not giving way every day either. Actually, I think that's more of an effect of people's impatience and the 'need to be there now' mentality than anything else...

All I'm saying is that it's a pretty isolated event compared to failing to GIVE WAY which has just as much potential to cause serious injury in that the mass of a motorvehicle and it's momentum doesn't care if the driver is drunk or just plain stupid.

[kerryhare]

I personally don't have a problem with it. It doesn't worry me if they sit outside the rally site waiting. We never leave early anyway. At the end of the day the cops are doing what they get paid to do.

[Pixie]

Police breath testing


I prefer not to do this.It's stinky.

I think it has something to do with all the donuts.