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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Implied consent gets around the 5th because driving is not a right; it's a privilege. I have a much bigger problem with sobriety checkpoints (aka pc-less fishing expeditions). There's no implied consent there. You're being detained for no reasonable suspicion or probable cause and you didn't agree to it when you got your license.
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Stopping everyone...well, it reminds me of a time in Germany.
"Papers please."
I don't want us conditioned to accept that.
I've called in on drunk drivers before, only response I've gotten was a small town police force jurisdiction. The driver didn't speak English, so they had to get in a police officer that spoke the driver's language. I don't know the details of why the guy chose to blow, but it was obvious he was so drunk he needed support to get to the squad car in hand cuffs.
His driving was such that it took him 30' of road. If there was less than 30' he was weavubg using the shoulders/off the marked lines.
When he tried to pass a tractor trailer I got to see what happens when an 18 wheeler goes into drift mode. More smoke than a Tony Stewart NASCAR burn out.
Fortunately when he got the interstate, it was in a small town that responded. The state had a speed trap on the north bound and never moved it south bound.
Neither Charlotte nor Gastonia would do anything other than "make a note of it".
If the police hadn't sent a unit on the way in the small town I would of had to wreck the guy, he was going to hit a car head on with his need to use three lanes of road.
I am against random stops, I am against stopping everyone in a checkpoint, I am also against drunk driving.