Rapid17

Earlier this year in the morning in East Sussex, my ex wife in her Mazda 2 with two under school age grandsons in their child seats. Random stop and breath test.

pimmo2000

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My dad tells a similar story, seems the amount of traffic and the performance of the car played a big part in no one being killed back then.

Turbohot

I was breathalysed for the first time in my life early this year after coming back from watching that film on Tsunami. I had a friend with me. I was driving through Connah's Quay about 11:30pm, and two coppers stopped me. Then they said if I would do this test for them, as they needed to get the stats. I had no problem helping them, so I said yes.

My friend thought it was wrong of them to stop us like that. I didn't think so. I was in no rush, so I'm pleased I helped them.

Needless to say that I don't do a drunken drive. I just drive like tsunami naturally.

JC-R

I got pulled about 13 years ago at about 4am in my nova. Was on my way back from a night club , i had 3 passengers in the car all pissst , beer cans all over the floor of the car. Police man and woman knocked on my window and i opened the door wide open . I remember the police looking down at us all in my car and then looked at each other smilling thinking weve catched a good 1 here. All the lads in my car was shouting and bawling stupid things, I had also opened my shirt before the cops got to my car and i was acting pissst and very larger than life. I got out of the car and i walked down the line in the middle of the road looking directly up at the stars whilst touching my nose and my feet was allover the shop ! Police lady asked my to blow into the bag , i happily blew as hard as i could. Their faces was absolutely priceless when the colour stayed green !!! They both walked very quickly back to their car and put on the blue lights and sped off very fast . I was stone cold sobber, only had one bottle of beer throughout the night.

Turbohot

Yeah, carting pissst people around isn't a crime. Police can't do you for it. If they could, that would put taxi drivers out of job.

pimmo2000

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Why ?

JC-R

To see the coppers dissapointed faces after i blew in the bag. The Police take great pleasure when getting a catch you know. Why else would i have done that ?

Bonehead

You still could've been arrested, section 4 of the road traffic act is 'suspicion of being unfit through drink or drugs', no breath test required
And even then there's a stated case of someone passing a road side test and the driver was slurring his words enough for him to be arrested. By the time the cops got him to the Police station he was put on the evidential breath test machine and he failed. The driver was a solicitor and tried to argue at court it was an unlawful arrest but the courts, sensibly, threw it out and convicted him.

You still could've been locked up on sus of being drug driving

ScoobyWon't

Yeah, as if they don't have enough jobs to deal with, without adding even more workload on top.

Here in Notts, evert officer is trained to use the mobile devices, but the big ones in custody suites require an officer trained to use that specific machine. That means an extra officer is dragged away from what he was doing, just to operate the machine.

The arresting officer then has to conduct an interview etc and fill in all required paperwork and attend court if required, which reduces the amount of time he has to concentrate on what most people refer to as "real criminals who rape grannies".

Felix.

Is someone 'over egging' the story somewhat...?

By walking all over the place, you will have failed the sobriety test and you will have been an easy lock up for them for being unfit through drugs - if you think they were after a lock up?

I've never understood why people think police are 'disappointed' if drivers are not over the limit when stopped. We don't get paid per lock up and we prefer everyone to have been driving sober in any case.

JC-R

Yes quite possibly they could have arrested me and that would have been a different story for me to tell , But they didnt . After they had my breath test they quickly got in their car and span off with blue lights on. Thats what happened and i took great pleasure from it

pimmo2000

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Bit of an odd thing to get pleasure from, wasting Police time ?

I'd be disappointed if the Police didn't get pleasure from catching the selfish, ****ed up idiots who risk our lives by driving drunk or on drugs, it's something to be proud of.

Pretty sure they're not so disappointed by those driving safely.

richs2891

[QUOTE=JC-R;11304029]I got pulled about 13 years ago at about 4am in my nova. Was on my way back from a night club , i had 3 passengers in the car all pissst , beer cans all over the floor of the car.

I think your missing the first ten words of this quote.

Different attitudes then and I'm sure a lot of it bravado in front of his passengers. Added to we don't know the attitude of the police when dealing with the above,

I'm not aware that the police where 13 years ago that clued up on drug driving, and possibly could not be bothered with the hassle of three drunked people been driven home by a sober person.

Richard

Rob Day

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Only a few times for me in 18 years of driving.

Once when I was testing camera shy plates on my RS around 15 years ago. The police stopped me during the night when they followed me driving over some hilly roads where my rear plate kept disappearing in their headlights . They couldn't do anything about the "issue" with the plates back then, so they breathalyser me (had no drink in me). Once handed a producer to sort out these odd plates by the first officer, the second was staring at my plates and said "did you say these plates came with the car when you bought it?" Yes I said, to which he replied "so why does your reg say "RS D9Y" yet at the bottom the plate it has "Rob Day" and the plate look relatively new" not much I could say, but then the police had no power to prosecute or give you a fine and points



My second breathalyser experience was around 4 years ago, where I came out of a Snooker club at around 11pm. Got in the Subaru and started to drive home, the police watched me get in the car and followed me for two miles to stop me after driving through a built up area full of people in serious snow conditions. They asked me if I'd been drinking, I sad yes, they said how much, a pint and a half I replied. They tested me and I was well under the limit. I then asked why they took 2 miles in extreme weather and 15 mins of following me before pulling me over? They sharply told he to do one! My arguement is if I was a threat due to drink then they should have grabbed me the moment I got in the car. Fortunately 3 pints of shandy over 4 hours was ok

Rob

Ps like some folk above I have an"almost" a zero alcohol take on driving. But sometimes you end up having the odd one, ie with a meal or at friends. But I believe that two pints is bordering depending of food you have eaten before hand.

JC-R

So why didnt the police seem very happy after they found out i was sobber because they went very quickly without saying goodbye ?

About an year before this instance i had been handled extremely harsh and heavy handed by the police . Me and a friend was out in town and had nowhere to sleep so my mate broke by brothers old astra van window and we jumped in the back and went to sleep.
About half an hour after the police were shining torches into the van and they were shouting get out like we were some hardened criminals. I told them it was my brothers van and we complied with getting out of the van. 2 police officers rammed me into the side of the van and cuffed me as tight as they possibly could with my hands behind my back . I kept shouting that it was my brothers van and that he wouldnt mind and we needed somewhere to sleep. They just chucked me into the back of the car . By this point my wrists was bleeding because the cuffs was so tight. I spent the night in the sell , the next morning they phoned my brother and he said no problem so then the copper said we could go , I asked for an appology , the copper said ' we dont do appologies '.

So after that performance with the police i felt quite bitter towards them , I was 17 at the time and had never had a run in like this with the police and again i was sobber.

So after i was breathtested and the police found i was perfectly sobber 'and i wasnt on drugs' and they then span off in a huff , I had my day that day , and i truelly felt that a fair balance had been restored

JC-R

No mate i was sobber , This occurrence took no longer than 4 minutes at about 4 am saturday morning in a very rural part of wales

Brun

How many times do you think they hear the line "it's my Brother's / Sister's / best mate's" etc. etc.
They didn't know you from Adam and they had a van with a broken window with 2 idiots inside! Do the Maths.......

Tidgy

I dont ever remember having one, i dont realy drink and I wont even have a drop when I know im gonna be driving so no issue if they want to.

This is one check i have no issue with them doing at all.

Jamie

Never and i will not even have a pint and drive mate i knew had one then two few more drove home pis$ed crashed his car into a tree when the police turned up and medics they could not find his head.No one else was involved.

JC-R

Why were we two idiots ?

pimmo2000

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You went to town with no where to sleep and broke into a van...

JC-R

Is it illegal to break into a vehicle if you have the owner of the vehicle's consent ?

pimmo2000

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I didn't say illegal.

chocolate_o_brian

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From what you typed, the police couldn't have known this when cuffing you (apart from your shouting) and you were out drinking underage too?

David Lock

My son used to drive to parties and if he couldn't stay over would sleep in the back of his car typically in a lay-by. Of course he was in charge of the vehicle and could have been arrested which always struck me as a bit unfair.

I often wondered about caravanners and the like who park up and then get pissed over their dinner. Presumably they are also technically breaking the law?

dl

bioforger

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Correct. You are in charge of the vehicle, even if you never intend to drive it.

JC-R

And where did you get the info that i was out drinking under age ? I clearly wrote that i was sober .

chocolate_o_brian

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Ahh, I follow now. I read that you were sober in the Nova instance but read that you were out on the town with nowhere to sleep. Up here that means one thing...

Regards the first point, apart from your shouting to the fuzz, they had no proof to suggest if indeed was your mates van you'd broken into (with consent), or did I miss that somewhere too?

JC-R

Yes you have missed that somewhere too mate because i clearly said it was my brothers van , not a mates van. It does help if you read a post properly before replying . Up your end it can mean whatever but the reason i was not drinking was because i was meant to be driving the van back because my brother and our mate was drinking , and i was underage plus i dont think i would of got served beer even if i did want to drink. My brother pulled some bird that night , he pissst off with her back to her place with the van keys in his pocket . We broke into the van because we did not have the key , I would of hot wired it but thaught best not leave my brother in town because id have to go and fetch him next day.
I didnt think it was needed for me to explain in the earlier post the reason why i was not drinking that night we broke into my brothers van.

pimmo2000

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Friend of mine drove to the pub not planning to drink, had a few and came out to get a taxi. Realised his cash was in the glove box, walked over the road from the taxi rank, crossing the path of a parked Police car, walked round to the passenger side, grabbed his cash, locked the car and crossed the road back to the taxi rank.

Police nicked him for being drunk and in charge of a vehicle, got 9 points and a rather large fine, only kept his license because he didn't try and drive it.