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**Jackrat** · 7th May 2004, 19:18

Ok it seems like we're in the who did this season,so how many times have you been stopped at a drink drive check point.
Seeing as how several million people get stopped each year it must be happening to someone else a lot Because I have never been stopped in NZ and only once in OZ.

**Two Smoker** · 7th May 2004, 19:22

In the last month i have been stopped about 5 times at checkpoints, 3 times on a bike and twice in a car. With me i don't care if they test me, if i have even one drink i wont drive or ride a car or motorcycle at all.... Ive got Zero tolerance for drunk drivers

**erik** · 7th May 2004, 19:34

I think I've been stopped 2 or 3 times, all when I was driving a cage. I haven't come across any checkpoints in the few months I've been riding.
I don't drink much, and if I do have some, I don't drive or ride.

I think it depends on where you ride, because AFAIK the cops set up their checking points where they think they'll catch lots of people, like on Hobson street going out of the city on a sunday morning.

**merv** · 7th May 2004, 19:38

I blew in the bag once about 1987 on an afternoon just before Xmas (work party time of the year) - passed just. That was my first and only bag job, then I went some years until checked at one of the booze-bus stops probably first time about 1995 - passed OK, don't drink too much eh, and then have probably only been checked about 3 or 4 times over the last 8 or 9 years and only once on the bike. That time was as we were coming back into Upper Hutt just North of Rimutaka Tavern on a Sunday ride - talked into the machine with my helmet on and he tells me I failed. Hadn't had a drink for days at the time. Made me get off the bike, take the hat off and go into the bus - checked it again and all OK. So what the!! Was my helmet full of alcohol or petrol fumes or something as I had no idea why I would fail the first check with my helmet on?

So anyway in Welly area I've only been stopped about 5 times in over 15 years. I saw a checkpoint just outside the Mt Vic tunnel about 2 weeks ago but drove straight through as they only stopped you when one of the boys was free. Dumb ass place to be testing on that 70k zone on the way to the airport causing quite a traffic snarl up.

**What?** · 7th May 2004, 19:46

Never been stopped in a booze check point, but FOUR BLOODY TIMES IN ONE DAY for warrant/rego check.

**FROSTY:Me** · 7th May 2004, 20:16

it seems westyland is a place they send the checkpoint cops out to.
I've been breath tested heaps on Swanson road and Universal drive
in henderson.
Now the story I heard by the way was that every time a load of cops gets through college they do a month on breth patrol

**Firefight** · 7th May 2004, 20:21

Not uncommon to be stopped 05.30-.06.00 hours H/way 22 outside the dairy company,Paerata for wof/rego and breath test by Pukekohe general duties cops, always feel a bit sorry for them. even on my bike I must still be warmer than them

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Firefight

**k14** · 7th May 2004, 21:23

I got done twice last year while i was on my bike. Both time it was around 3 in the afternoon whilst I was on my way to uni. Can't see who they are going to get at that time of the day.

**maybe** · 7th May 2004, 21:45

Have been stopped twice in thirteen years at drink drive checkpoints....been stopped umpting times at check points for licence, warrant and rego check.

**Two Smoker** · 7th May 2004, 22:06

Originally Posted by xjxjxj

Now the story I heard by the way was that every time a load of cops gets through college they do a month on breth patrol

That ain't a story its true, they do some time on the booze buses to get in "contact" with the public, then they head into STU or HP, once again because of the ability to learn people skills, that shows that if you meet a wank of a cop when being pulled over for speeding, he probably wants to get into the job of General Duties rather than giving out tickets, hence the shitty attitude...

**Motu** · 7th May 2004, 22:11

It depends on what you're doing I think - I don't go out much,but late at night I have been stopped a few times in the car,I seldom have more than 2 stubbies ever and if I have had anything in the last three days the missus kicks me out of the drivers seat.Never been stopped for a breath test on a bike....but I've turned my head and talked into my hand for a WoF check a few times.

**wkid_one** · 8th May 2004, 08:13

I have been breathalised twice. At a rough guess I have done about 250,000km+ - so this is a pretty poor hit rate.

Also - when I was a young'n I used to have my old mans ute for the weekend - on the proviso I picked them up from the Cossie Club on a Sunday nite so they could drink and didn't have to get a taxi home. I did this for about 12 months - and NOT ONCE did we run in to a Check Point.....bloody funny.

**Drunken Monkey** · 8th May 2004, 13:57

Lost count now... Used to get it occasionally during uni - the sniffer wouldn't even pickup a jug of beer (& fish'n'chips) more than an hour after. Then when I started working, I prolly got stopped about half a dozen times over the period of a few months. Wines with dinner seem to set the sniffer off easily - failed it twice after only 2 glasses and a meal and had to give evidentials to pass.
That's one thng that pisses me off about those TV ads where the cops are total cu|\|ts when someone fails the sniffer. Are they *trying* to portray police as impatient, in-emotional, unreasonable robots? Doesn't help their already tarnished image at all...
Both times it happened to me, they asked how much I had drunk and if I had eaten, then told me to have a good night when I passed the bag. I haven't had to deal with those 'fail youth' pr!cks some of you fellas mentioned a few months back yet, but I'm sure I'd tell them in no round-a-bout terms to kindly fuc|< the hell off and get a life...

**Big Dog** · 8th May 2004, 18:32

Originally Posted by Two Smoker

In the last month i have been stopped about 5 times at checkpoints, 3 times on a bike and twice in a car. With me i don't care if they test me, if i have even one drink i wont drive or ride a car or motorcycle at all.... Ive got Zero tolerance for drunk drivers

Right on!

I get tested on average three times a year.
I always get rewarded with a smile and a :spudwave:

**Big Dog** · 8th May 2004, 18:35

Originally Posted by merv

- talked into the machine with my helmet on and he tells me I failed. Hadn't had a drink for days at the time. Made me get off the bike, take the hat off and go into the bus - checked it again and all OK. So what the!! Was my helmet full of alcohol or petrol fumes or something as I had no idea why I would fail the first check with my helmet on?

I was told by an officer at a check point that insufficient airflow stil registers as a fail.