I hate drunk driving with a passion, but I hate these unconstitutional checkpoints more.

Where? Where does it take the cake? You know where I'd take a cake? To the bakery. To be with the other cakes.

//I less-than-three Carlin.

AMS0000: I hate drunk driving with a passion, but I hate these unconstitutional checkpoints more.

THIS. The idiotic supreme court basically said, "Yea, their unconstitutional, but it's for the 'public good' so go ahead."

Anyway, if I ever run across a checkpoint like this I'm going to put on my "Communist Russian" accent (12 years of theater really comes in handy) and make every Soviet Union reference I can as well as sneak some Russian into the conversation. (I'm not fluent in Russian, but I do know some words.) All the while completely cooperating with them.

It will annoy the hell out of them, but the only way they are going to arrest me is by planting crack in my $300 car.

Does mama have to do everything around here?

FTFA: "'His reason for crossing the road was not ascertained and he was not breath-tested,' Senior Sergeant Brett Calkin said."

Maybe he was looking for Dinsdale Pirhana?

Crosshair: Anyway, if I ever run across a checkpoint like this I'm going to put on my "Communist Russian" accent (12 years of theater really comes in handy) and make every Soviet Union reference I can as well as sneak some Russian into the conversation. (I'm not fluent in Russian, but I do know some words.) All the while completely cooperating with them.

You are clearly a rebel the likes of which the world has never seen, and we can all rest safer knowing that patriotic titans such as yourself are out there railing against governmental injustices and fighting the good fight for the common man. Your Fark tag should come with a Hero tag embedded in it. In fact, hell, they should just retire the Hero tag and replace it with a animated gif of fireworks exploding over your screenname.

Pocket Ninja:

I'm starting to love you.

I would be more sympathetic to the "Unconstitutional Checkpoint" cause if someone other than drunk-driving idiots ("Oh I just had a few! I can drive fine!") railed against them.

It will annoy the hell out of them, but the only way they are going to arrest me is by planting crack in my $300 car.

They'll just taser you a few times and say you were uncooperative. The video recorder will malfunction. If you manage to sue and win, the government will pick up the bill and the cops know it.

And yes I did RTFA and I was amused.

Middletown Doug: Where? Where does it take the cake? You know where I'd take a cake? To the bakery. To be with the other cakes.

I always liked their music!

Sonic unavailable for comment.

FTFA: They included a 42-year-old woman who was almost three times the legal breath-alcohol limit, despite telling police she had had only two drinks.

Lightweight.

Crosshair:

How about if they plant a $300 car in your crack?

I was pretty disappointed by the article after reading that headline.

/more cake references

Yesdog: I would be more sympathetic to the "Unconstitutional Checkpoint" cause if someone other than drunk-driving idiots ("Oh I just had a few! I can drive fine!") railed against them.


This.

How people can defend drunk driving is beyond me.

Pocket Ninja: Crosshair: Anyway, if I ever run across a checkpoint like this I'm going to put on my "Communist Russian" accent (12 years of theater really comes in handy) and make every Soviet Union reference I can as well as sneak some Russian into the conversation. (I'm not fluent in Russian, but I do know some words.) All the while completely cooperating with them.

You are clearly a rebel the likes of which the world has never seen, and we can all rest safer knowing that patriotic titans such as yourself are out there railing against governmental injustices and fighting the good fight for the common man. Your Fark tag should come with a Hero tag embedded in it. In fact, hell, they should just retire the Hero tag and replace it with a animated gif of fireworks exploding over your screenname.

If i wasn't such a computer idiot I would put the animated pic of orson welles clapping here....

/kudos for a job VERY well done

Hedgehog: Tastes like chicken pot pie.

AntiNorm: Yesdog: I would be more sympathetic to the "Unconstitutional Checkpoint" cause if someone other than drunk-driving idiots ("Oh I just had a few! I can drive fine!") railed against them.


This.

How people can defend drunk driving is beyond me.

Drunk driving is wrong, I will not drive with in a few hours after each drink, but pull them over for doing something wrong, not hassle everyone on the damn road.

Just cause is not hard to find.

First, they came for drunk-driving idiots... And I did nothing because I wasn't a drunk-driving idiot...

This appears to have happened in another country? But I agree, when they do this crap in the USA they are pissing on the Constitution. If they can stop every car on a given road and breathalize the drivers, why not knock on every door on a give street as well for on-the-spot drug tests?

Obligatory.

Pocket Ninja:
You are clearly a rebel the likes of which the world has never seen, and we can all rest safer knowing that patriotic titans such as yourself are out there railing against governmental injustices and fighting the good fight for the common man. Your Fark tag should come with a Hero tag embedded in it. In fact, hell, they should just retire the Hero tag and replace it with a animated gif of fireworks exploding over your screenname.

Best response ever.

AntiNorm:

How people can defend drunk driving is beyond me.

Clearly the fault lies not with the drunk driver, but with all the idiots in the opposing lane who keep getting in the way.

Drunk drivers who kill should be shot.

Pocket Ninja I bow to your impressive sarcasm skills.

ZAZ: They'll just taser you a few times and say you were uncooperative. The video recorder will malfunction. If you manage to sue and win, the government will pick up the bill and the cops know it.

Yea, that sounds about right. I accidentally grounded out a 240 volt 40 amp circuit once, in my right hand, out my left. (Don't remember a whole lot, just that it hurt like hell, my heart was beating funny for a little while afterwards, and I don't want to do it again.) So a taser should be rather tame by comparison, it's the damm nightsticks that are the problem.

Yoleus: How about if they plant a $300 car in your crack?

My butt isn't that big. It's not that my car is a junker, it's just under a salvage title cause the insurance company declared it totaled because the airbags went off. Very reliable car.

Middletown Doug: Where? Where does it take the cake? You know where I'd take a cake? To the bakery. To be with the other cakes.

//I less-than-three Carlin.

Carlin is an un-funny, lame and pretentious hippie prick who needs to get the fuk over himself. He's about as funny as Jerry Seinfeld, that is to say, dropping a cinder block on my foot is funnier.

AntiNorm: How people can defend drunk driving is beyond me.

Because that's not what people who hate these checkpoints are doing? The actual drunk drivers would complain for being pulled over NO MATTER WHAT, but these checkpoints are ridiculous.

I have personally received a speeding ticket from a police officer who was FIRED for arresting drivers (many of whom had consumed no alcohol, many blew well under the legal limit) for DUI (the officer, essentially every time, made up the same story for why those folks were pulled over... yet, somehow, it took YEARS for anyone with money to sue him... obviously the police kept letting it go, even though there were dozens of complaints over the years, and some cases that were dropped almost immediately for lack of evidence... of course, many of his cases resulted in convictions). In the state of Oregon, there can be absolutely no evidence to suggest your guilt, and the case can be thrown out the next day... but an ARREST for DUI goes on your driving record, and it doesn't come off (maybe after a few years... but I don't even know if that's the case).
Luckily, I was driving in the middle of the day, and he didn't pull that sh*t with me.

But to make the kind of logical leap you have made, I bet you believe those drivers with no alcohol in their systems deserved being arrested and charged with DUI.

The Invisible Sky Wizard: AntiNorm:

How people can defend drunk driving is beyond me.

Clearly the fault lies not with the drunk driver, but with all the idiots in the opposing lane who keep getting in the way.

kntgsp: Drunk driving is wrong, I will not drive with in a few hours after each drink, but pull them over for doing something wrong, not hassle everyone on the damn road.

Just cause is not hard to find.

For emphasis.

And it's in New Zealand. Just how far do those drunken hedgehog idiots think they can go? The other side of the island?

And in some cases, convicted, based on the word of a lying police officer.

Katzenjammer: This appears to have happened in another country? But I agree, when they do this crap in the USA they are pissing on the Constitution. If they can stop every car on a given road and breathalize the drivers, why not knock on every door on a give street as well for on-the-spot drug tests?

You know what other country had sobriety checkpoints?...

Pocket Ninja

Wow. You must promise to only use your powers for the Good.

After Crosshair's entry for best internet toughguy- thespian style- in this thread, I can't resist:

They'll have a checkpoint set up later on Foothill/rt. 66 near me, due to the holiday weekend. I may check it out, sober of course, but in my Bug, which is too loud, too low, has no reverse lights or front bumper and an out-of-state plate (instead of the required 2).

In this case will they have probable cause to do anything about my "defective equipment" if I don't have booze on my breath?

You'd expect to encounter a few uncooperative pricks at a sobriety checkpoint, but this takes the cake

Aren't the uncooperative pricks the ones hiding behind their shields running the unconstitutional stop?

Crosshair:

Yea, that sounds about right. I accidentally grounded out a 240 volt 40 amp circuit once, in my right hand, out my left. (Don't remember a whole lot, just that it hurt like hell, my heart was beating funny for a little while afterwards, and I don't want to do it again.) So a taser should be rather tame by comparison, it's the damm nightsticks that are the problem.



You should have been around when a certain temp worker at my work grabbed a bare 3-phase 480v wire that came loose from people yanking on it all the time. He damn near melted his arm off. Saw him a few days ago and his whole arm was black yellow and blue from the shoulder down.

OnlyM3: You'd expect to encounter a few uncooperative pricks at a sobriety checkpoint, but this takes the cake

Aren't the uncooperative pricks the ones hiding behind their shields running the unconstitutional stop?

Yes but in this case, "cake" = "doughnut."

OnlyM3: You'd expect to encounter a few uncooperative pricks at a sobriety checkpoint, but this takes the cake

Aren't the uncooperative pricks the ones hiding behind their shields running the unconstitutional stop?

They stick their shields on their pricks? Ouch!

1. Driving while intoxicated is fun. 2. Driving fast while intoxicated is especially fun.

AMS0000: I hate drunk driving with a passion, but I hate these unconstitutional checkpoints more.

They have the US constitution in New Zealand now? Who would have guessed it.

I just got back from Australia and learn that the cops can and do bring drug dogs into the clubs and search everyone.

Kar98: Middletown Doug: Where? Where does it take the cake? You know where I'd take a cake? To the bakery. To be with the other cakes.

//I less-than-three Carlin.

Carlin is an un-funny, lame and pretentious hippie prick who needs to get the fuk over himself. He's about as funny as Jerry Seinfeld, that is to say, dropping a cinder block on my foot is funnier.

Now that you mention it, I think dropping a cinder block on your foot would be HILARIOUS. Let's do it.

I'd be uncooperative, too, whether I was sober or not. Seeing as how they are a violation of the fourth amendment. And yes, I know there's a countervailing safety interest at stake, which is why they are legal in some states. But if you ask me, once 'safety' becomes an excuse to violate the constitution, the sky is the limit for what cops can, and will, do.

I mean, hell, no reason not to regularly inspect the homes of anyone who has kids, or whose neighbors have kids. Think of the children!

AMS0000: I hate drunk driving with a passion, but I hate these unconstitutional checkpoints more.

New Zealand adheres to the U.S. Constitution?

Kanemano: They have the US constitution in New Zealand now? Who would have guessed it.

Shhhh...don't let that little fact spoil all the edgy, attention whore US bashing.

Katzenjammer: This appears to have happened in another country? But I agree, when they do this crap in the USA they are pissing on the Constitution. If they can stop every car on a given road and breathalize the drivers, why not knock on every door on a give street as well for on-the-spot drug tests?

Probably something to do with the fact that when drunk, there is a direct and immediate increase in the odds that you'll crash your car, quite possibly taking down others in your Darwin-award hunting wake.

There was a checkpoint directly below our building on Saturday night. Made for a little light entertainment watching the dumbasses get ticketed.

Fluff Girl: Pocket Ninja: I'm starting to love you.

Pocket Ninja's contributions have been showing up with a green background on my screen for quite some time now.

Sorry. Your "Constitutional right" to drive drunk is trumped by my right not to be killed by your retarded asses.

El_Dan: I'd be uncooperative, too, whether I was sober or not. Seeing as how they are a violation of the fourth amendment. And yes, I know there's a countervailing safety interest at stake, which is why they are legal in some states. But if you ask me, once 'safety' becomes an excuse to violate the constitution, the sky is the limit for what cops can, and will, do.

I mean, hell, no reason not to regularly inspect the homes of anyone who has kids, or whose neighbors have kids. Think of the children!

Are you uncooperative when you pass through security at the airport? That's violating your fourth amendment rights, also. What about if you go to a venue where there are metal detectors or bag checks? I bet you arn't uncooperateive everytime your rights are violated, so STFU

Yesdog: I would be more sympathetic to the "Unconstitutional Checkpoint" cause if someone other than drunk-driving idiots ("Oh I just had a few! I can drive fine!") railed against them.

I understand what you're saying, but I am against them, and I don't even have a license. Of course, the police keep trying to pull me over anyway!

Big Whippee. You stop for 5 seconds, say your name into a device, and your on you way, if you are sober, in 10 secs. I'd rather have that than some pissed up farktard ramming into me coming the other way to be honest. No Major interupption to my day, and honestly, its hardly 'unconstitutional', not that we have one here in NZ anyway.

Yesdog: I would be more sympathetic to the "Unconstitutional Checkpoint" cause if someone other than drunk-driving idiots ("Oh I just had a few! I can drive fine!") railed against them.

Okay then, I think they suck, and I don't drive drunk.

Haven't been on in a while and it's nice to see farkers are still tackling the hard issues. Could someone please point to the most recent epic gun thread, this one lacks the intensity I desire.

/slashies, I missed you most of all
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