Can't figure this out.

[Lou Girardin]

You have your helmet on at the first sniff?

That happened to me in Upper Hutt one day and I hadn't had a drink for days at the time. Had to get off the bike, go into the booze bus so took the helmet off and all was fine.

Could be fumes, aftershave or anything else accumuating in the helmet I guess.

Flip front.

[F5 Dave]

My partner was on a ride along (when she thought she might become a cop, very civic minded lass) & they pulled some women, she failed, quite surprised, took her in & tested her with proper machine. Well under. Sent her on her way & proceeded to go back out, testing with the same bit of kit.
[Sez my girl]: ‘Erm, . . . shouldn’t we get a new tester?’
‘Why?’


That’s pretty much when she decided she didn’t want to join.


On the flip side, they are cheap enough so that they can do tests quickly, just they can’t be relied on. How many bikers have been killed by arsehats (©Jim2) driving while drunk? Heaps. I have no sympathy for DIC.

[raster]

Friend was involved in a DIC accident in Papakura recently.
Hit by a woman who stole mothers car drove up from Tauranga, got piss and was heading back home, went through a red light.

Luckely my friend didn't have her 2 kids in the car at the time as the child seat was smashed.

Dog hit the dashboard and was the only injury thankfully.

[BNZ]

ive been pissed as a rotten skunk an got past those things. there a joke!

Might wanna keep that one quiet. I can already picture the shit fight thats about to begin....

[curious george]

Hate to say it, but hows your breath?
Acetone breath due to keto-acidosis might have triggered it

[Lou Girardin]

Nah! Did the big exhale into the helmet to check. Did an armpit sniff test to double check.

[Lou Girardin]

Aha! I was just told that toothpaste can trigger the sniffer. If true, that'll make early morning checkpoints a bit pointless (geddit?)
Unless, cynic that I am, having many failed sniffer tests somehow looks good on the statistical returns to LTNZ.

[scumdog]

Anyone for zero tolerance?

No problem.

BTW the sniffer is only a kind of electric nose, most times if I have any inkling the dude driving has been drinking I go straight to the 2nd stage, that clears up any doubt one way or the other.

Even beer fumes in the car can give a fail reading.

As the 2nd stage gives most people on this thread a pass what's the problem?? - the first virtually doesn't count, - when has anybody EVER had to go to Court 'cos they failed the sniffer test??, it's just an indication that there is something akin to alcohol on your breath.

[scumdog]

Aha! I was just told that toothpaste can trigger the sniffer. If true, that'll make early morning checkpoints a bit pointless (geddit?)
Unless, cynic that I am, having many failed sniffer tests somehow looks good on the statistical returns to LTNZ.

Not sure on that - they don't record them all and don't HAVE to either, even if the stat guys prefer it.

[spudchucka]

A decent fart makes the passive test on a sniffer read fail, (don't ask me how I know that). So does mouth wash, freshly brushed teeth, cigarette smoke, fumes from a passing truck, after shave, bad breath,aliens flying over head & the second coming of christ.

The test to be concerned about is the one where you blow into the tube, which Lou passed with flying colours, god bless him. That test will detect alcohol content where the passive test simply detects foreign substances that might be alcohol.

[Lou Girardin]

Gee thank you Spud. I haven't reached the point of having to be pissed to face work yet.
The other point which I didn't go into, was where they were testing. A short narrow street in Newton where there's no parking, so that all drivers having to give a second test have to block a driveway. Much to the delight of the lovely young lady who had to wait in the middle of the road while Officer Dibble did two breath tests, checked my reg and wof and made notes about the owner of the bike.
She was so happy, so were the 4 or 5 drivers behind her.

[Marmoot]

Lou: if you're confused with your story, try mine:

After more than 3 months of not drinking a single sip of alcohol, one morning I decided to have McDonald's hot cake combo for breakfast before heading home after driving my wife to work.
Yep, got the sniffer test on the way home and it said clearly FAILED.
I didn't know that McD makes Irish Coffee for breakfast combo.....

[Marmoot]

A decent fart ...,aliens flying over head & the second coming of christ....

ah, that explains....I knew that day was somewhat special....must've been one of those three

[FROSTY:Me]

sorry lou --Im missing a bit here.
I think we all want to keep drunks off the street. That sniffer thingie lets the cops test heaps of people very quickly--surely that makes them more effective.
Yea When its somebody like you then its a pain in the ass I agree

[Lou Girardin]

Read the post again frosty. I wasn't complaining about the testing in itself, just the unreliability of the device.
The time and location of the testing is another issue. But then you wouldn't mind if the cops were processing drivers across the entrance to your business, would you?