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First..
No one should drive impaired. We all know that.
Here is my experience.
I got pulled over at 11 pm for running a stop sign.
I had just started drinking 30 minutes prior. Drinking in my car after I left band practice. Yea... a pint of hard stuff.
The hiway patrolman smelled booze on my breath. He asked if I had drank that night.
I said yes. One drink.
Out of car and the whole thing started.
I was scared. I went through all the roadside tests and then the big one...
Blow into the tube. Twice. I passed and was let go. I kissed the driveway at my house when I got home.
What I learned was what happened a year later.
I had been drinking (buzzed, not smashed) and got tunneled into a roadside
sobriety check point.
I don't approve of what I am about to say but it kept me from going to jail.
The officer tried to stuff his face into my driver's side opening.
He asked me if I had been drinking and I went for "all or nothing."
I said "no".
End of interrogation.
He handed me a brochure on driving safe and told me to proceed.
If you have had a couple and get caught in a random DUI checkpoint.
Tell them you have had nothing. Admit to one beer and you are hosed dude.
However... don't drink and drive anymore. Be Safe.
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