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It's becoming very bizarre. It's not illegal to drink and drive. It IS illegal to drink and drive drunk. These new rules mean that you don't have to be drunk to be convicted.
Unfortunately, even if your BAC is below legal limits, a police officer's 'word' that you were impaired can lead to a conviction.
You can be stopped for not wearing a seat belt, even though seat belts are only required for children. All kinds of things can get you pulled over now....a dirty license plate, tinted windows.
If you are asked to perform a test to determine if your drunk, it's best to refuse them. Nobody has EVER passed these tests and they are merely an excuse used to draw bodily fluids from you.
Dirty license plates and tinted windows may get you stopped, but they are not grounds for a chemical test.
thinking the OP story is a FAKE...... The author is from Oregon. Although the article refers to New Hampshire everywhere, she MUST mean Coos County, OREGON.
yes - fake story, fake headlines - fake news pretending to be real.
The National Report is another Onion, or FOX. It is supposed to be reputable, but is really satire.
Kudos for the link that shows we are the drunkest state according to liquor sales....ROFL
That just means no taxes bring in lots of sales from neighboring states.
The mobile van has shown up at "sobriety" road blocks all over the state. It's a mobile police station. They can book anyone right on the spot. Then transport to county jail.
But.
From what I read the rule states that these random/sobriety road blocks have to be posted and published ahead of time. Yes, the public is informed about these roadblocks ahead of time.
Yet even posted and published - they seem to always catch a few.
but it seems like a waste of $. I read in that at one recent checkpoint, they stopped 538 cars and arrested 2 people. They were not arrested for dui...they were arrested for possession of a controlled drug.
That's an extremely small percentage and not worth having 6 fully manned cars pulling over people. There is a sobriety check point going on this weekend in Raymond on Route 102. It stops traffic. It's a hassle, nobody likes being pulled over.
The likelihood of finding someone that's actually driving drunk is practically zero.
IMO, it's done as a presentation of a heavy police hand. Who's paying for these roadblocks? Is NH receiving federal funding to do this? If so, why? Are the citizens all deemed as criminals now?
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