Caught by the R.I.D.E. Program...and lived to tell the tale

[Maria Blackwood]

*shrug* The statistics speak for themselves.

[Jessica86]

Well, that's a relief for sure! One thing most people think is that police, fire, and medical personnel will perceive them as different when they come in contact with them. Truth be told they really don't. I was at an accident where a guy was pulled from a car wearing a men's dress shirt with a skirt, hose, and heels on. Not one person of any emergency personnel said a thing. They come across it more than any other profession....so if you do happen to run into one...such as this situation...just stay calm. If anything....those who do have a problem...don't want to deal with it and just let you go anyway. Shouldn't be something to worry about.

*shrug* The statistics speak for themselves.

Nope. Like any other person who hates cops, you never think about what AFFECTS those numbers. Times have changed and fatality accidents have dropped in EVERY state regardless of checkpoints, laws, what have you. This is because people do not factor in the time change in technology in vehicles. When those studies came out....we did not have curtain airbags in as many cars as now. That was a HUGE difference maker. Photo lights affected fatal accident statistics also. I'll go ahead and say it. I've watched a car full of kids burn to death. Right in front of me...because some retard drove drunk. He died too, but impact. Until you see that and you hear the voices of two young girls screaming help while burning.....shut up. Seriously. We don't have check points in Texas and we have the deadliest stretch of highway in the NATION for DUI accidents. In a two mile stretch, 58 have lost their lives in the past two years alone. They have tried to put a checkpoint near this stretch, and people would rather spend the money on a new dog park, than fund an expansion of a DUI division within the local authority. Truth. The headline of the paper was "Citizens rather have dogs than cops." Sickens me.
Those who try to put cops in the dark...don't look deep into the information. DUI checkpoints are NOT paid overtime for officers. It has to be approved by the county commissioner's court, which in turn goes into the county budget. County budget does not approve overtime as it is not a definate amount of spending. They have to know down to the penny what they are going to spend or it does not pass. The only time it gets approved is when a neighborhood wants a contract position for officers like during Christmas time. They will expand a division with a paid position to do that....but it's not overtime. The only scam here is you trying to fight with bad information.
So, *shrug* some people hate cops....and everything they do...even though they are getting shot at, spit on, run over, and work twice the hours most people do for half the pay. The expired body armor, 200,000 mile cars, and not to mention they have to buy all of their belt equipment, extra uniforms, rifles, shotguns, cuffs, batons, handguns, pins, badges, and even PAY for training out of their own pocket. Why pay them overtime when 40,000 a year should cover all of that plus feeding a family? I know someone who was behind a robbery suspect....and his car broke down....letting the guy get away. Yeah.....whatever. I'm done with this soap box.

[UNDERDRESSER]

And the state of constant surveillence of which this is a part, with all the other destructive actions it will take toward people's rights (and has already taken), might well cost me my life.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -Pitt the Younger

More to the point, it's not a choice between this and doing nothing about drunk driving.

So, Underdresser: you were mistaken.

I stand corrected.

I have my own problems with the DUI laws, particularly here in Alberta, but overall, I am in agreement with getting the seriously drunk off the roads. But .0001 over? Then all decisions go against you? Even if the other driver blatantly was in the wrong?

However, that's a discussion for another forum.

Thing is, the idea you inferred that things would be better off South of the border from a personal liberty point was what made think you were being humorous.