I couldn't pass a field sobriety test sober
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Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to refuse a field sobriety test and opt for a chemical test (breath or blood) instead with no penalty. That's the case in my state and many others.
You can also generally refuse a chemical test as well, but doing so will likely get your license suspended.
But check your local laws to be sure.
Refuse field breathalyzers if allowed and have them use the big one at the station. The field ones are super inaccurate.
In Australia, that's always how it's done.
Portable breathalyzer doesn't really mean anything, but if you blow over you're down to the station to do it in the real machine and if you blow there, it's off to hospital to get a blood test, the blood test is the evidence used in court.
That's kinda the point
I get knocked down.
But I get up again.
yessss chumbawamba mentioned(check their other music they're cool)
You’re never gonna keep me down.
I'm imagining this being yelled from the ground as the man is being cuffed
Fun fact there is literally no scientific backing to field sobriety tests. In fact there is a lot of scientific evidence proving they don’t work.
Pigs are liars?
Gasp.
That's interesting. Any recommended ones? If I had to guess its a lot easier to find flaws in something than it is to prove it 100% right.
As I understand it, these tests are trying to get more data on if the driver is severely intoxicated or has major motor function issues.
Or fingerprints, or lie detectors..
There's no scientific backing to fingerprints? Whaat
No, there's no scientific backing to really confidently say that no two fingerprints are alike. That doesn't change that we can identify them and match them.
If you observe that fingerprints can be matched, that's all you need to know.
Now lie detectors don't work at all...
Now lie detectors don’t work at all…
Meh, they do work. They just measure stress response, not truthfulness. The idea being that you'll have a heightened stress response to a question you are lying about the answer to, which may or may not be accurate depending on individual and situation.
So they don't work. They're nothing more than pseudo-science gobbled up by "Truth, Justice, And The American Way" boomers who also watch NCIS and cheer when they blow up the bad guys on the big screen.
You can always take your chances on a blood test...
Yeah, why not use a breath analyzer or something. I am a drunk and could do those test really wasted.
Because it’s harder for cops to discriminate against dark skinned people if they use objective measurements.
Breath analyzers aren't exactly accurate. There's a bunch of things that can give them false positives, they often aren't properly calibrated, and the science behind them is kinda shaky. They got challenged often enough in certain states that in at least one state if an officer has you breathe in a machine and that machine produces a number higher than the legal BAC limit, that's proof of DUI regardless of what the machine may or may not do to result in that number.
"My horse is still sober. Technically he's the one driving."
reminder to never submit to a field sobriety test, as you are at the whom of the officer conducting it, and as we all know, acab
also if you drive under the influence or are fucking around with your touchscreen dash or phone or something, fuck you
I drove trucks for a while and the amount of people with screens on is rediculous and that not counting the amount eating and putting on makeup.
ACAB
Alcoholics Cause Avoidable Bloodshed? Sometimes, yeah.
Yes, and they cant do good things.
But they can do funny bad things.
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." — Confucius
That cop smells like Axe body spray and day old cigarette butts.
Officer, this is a book store, and you’re taking to a book of positive affirmations.