https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk
Ps i have never blamed Trump for anything, the guys a buffoon, Who is only president due to the number of stupid people in the USA. I blame them.
We used to have a few laughs at the after work drinks, putting ourselves on the breath testing machines.
It was eye opening how much you had to drink to get even close to the legal limit.
Most, if not all of us, wouldn't even think of driving with enough on board to get close to the legal limit.
Then on the next late shift we get a guy telling us that he failed the breath test after having two beers. Yeah right. Bollocks.
I frequently drank at the local police station with the off duty Strategic Traffic Unit guys (police name for traffic cops) around 15-20 years ago.
Blowing into the machine until "fail youth" took a decent effort & leaving there was the most pissed i rode ever, in the knowledge that I was safely under the limit.
Thats why i have no sympathy for people that get done for drink driving. They know full well that theyre proper pissed up.
I recall Campbell Live doing this a few years ago as part of the campaign to reduce the alcohol limit. One of the reporters needed something like 10 standard drinks to get over the old limit, and he was pretty drunk by then.
Even a few drinks does affect you. I had a near miss last year driving up the road to get dinner after 3 beers. I felt fine driving but my reaction time was slow when someone pulled out in front of me.
I'll have one light beer and ride but that's it.
They could make the limit 0, would make decisions easier and roads safer, Heineken 0 is palatable.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Campbell Live didn't get that memo.
Must be at least 30 years ago, but my wife and I were out one night and both had waaay too much to be driving. I drove home and we were stopped at a checkpoint, so I thought I'd be well over the limit. Passed the roadside test.
I never did that again though. I really don't understand why there is so little breath testing done now. It must be 5 years since I've been stopped, but it used to be every few months.
that was the point , he was looking straight ahead, he had just past my other mate and then within 100mtrs on a slight bend, on the road that led to his home his brain switched off what he was doing, stove in the bluebird boot, which luckily released the bootlid, his pelvis got smashed on the triple trees, handle bars looked like a bowtie, broke most bones in his front side, and this rider could slide both wheels around a corner with ease.
the mate he passed watched him do it, he couldn't imagine any cause, we all checked the bike , it didn't have any fault we could attribute it to, plus he didn't brake at all, no swerving just a complete brain fade, which was not like him at all, his occupation was computer systems analysis
the only thing we could attribute it to was the couple of beers after he finished work
Basically, breath testing is proactive work. It's intended to prevent people from taking the risk of drink driving, by increasing the perception of the risk of getting caught.
Thing is, as with all proactive work, it's the first thing that stops when the reactive workload booms. Notably, when the policy of attending all burglaries within 48 hours came in, that consumed a lot of resources. And that's just one example.
When they wound down the booze bus units around the country, it was to release the staff to other higher priority things.
Inevitably it was going to have pay back, and we are seeing it now. Less breath testing means more drink driving, and that's exactly what we are seeing now.
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