New lazer alcohol detection for moving vehicles

[BlackGT]

I am old enough to party hard, and you're still a fucking asshole for driving drunk.

X2!!!!!!11111one

No excuse for putting lives at risk all because you think you're a badass and that driving drunk is somehow cool...

[JC316]

yep. wait to youre old enough to actually party hard then get back to us, squirt.

I am old enough to party hard, and you're still a fucking asshole for driving drunk.

[dsrtuckteezy]

I'll be sure to talk about how awesome I am at drunk driving!

be sure to do that and add how good you are at sucking major ownages cock, big boy

[crapstang]

yep. wait to youre old enough to actually party hard then get back to us, squirt.

I'll be sure to talk about how awesome I am at drunk driving!

[dsrtuckteezy]

You're one of those guys...

yep. wait to youre old enough to actually party hard then get back to us, squirt.

[crapstang]

have i done it enough times to where you couldnt tell if im sober or not? yes.

You're one of those guys...

[dsrtuckteezy]

i just drove home drunk tonight. have i done it enough times to where you couldnt tell if im sober or not? yes. am i proud of it? nope. am i going to call a cab 5 miles from home? nope. i'll willing to take the risk b/c i'm that good. ive been pulled over several times hammered, got to go home b/c i can handle myself (even had a pig push my car to the gas station) choooo choooooooo!!!

[91CoupeMike]

What if your car runs on alcohol ? But sir my laser says your piss ass drunk, and the laser is never wrong!

[Nash B.]

Goddammit, we just had the argument about legality being black and white just a few days ago.

[Slowhand]

Sounds to me like a laser spectrometer. I'm surprised they didn't have something like this sooner..

I'm all for getting drunks off the road. The problem is that our laws damn to hell anyone that just made a mistake one night the same way they damn the habitual drinker that constantly puts lives at risk. As with many things in our legal system, it is more about punishment and collecting revenue than about solving actual problems.

This. It's not just the government, either, it seems to be society as a whole. We refuse to accept that driving under the influence is not a binary state, it's a continuum with varying levels of severity, incidence, and outcome.

[crapstang]

So what happens if your windows are down?

People have died from falling out of windows, so they're going to be banned quite soon. No need to worry about that!

[Broncojohnny]

Actually the laser probably is unconstitutional. The reason is that you are testing what is inside the car without probable cause. When shooting radar, all they are doing is testing the outside of the car which is plainly visible. I think if they had this laser mounted on a cop and used it when talking to people they had already pulled over, it would be fine.

Of course none of this matters in Poland where vodka comes out of the faucets and the police aren't far removed from the communist days. That country is a lot like the Mexico of Europe.

Sounds to me like a laser spectrometer. I'm surprised they didn't have something like this sooner..

I'm all for getting drunks off the road. The problem is that our laws damn to hell anyone that just made a mistake one night the same way they damn the habitual drinker that constantly puts lives at risk. As with many things in our legal system, it is more about punishment and collecting revenue than about solving actual problems.

I think the recent actions coming out of the DEA show that this country is in the business of making people criminals rather than solving actual problems. On the bright side of all that nuttiness, I think the whole Reefer Madness rhetoric they were spewing a few weeks ago directly led to The House giving their budget funding the finger. That was a surprising and welcome turn of events.

[Sgt Beavis]

Sounds to me like a laser spectrometer. I'm surprised they didn't have something like this sooner..

I'm all for getting drunks off the road. The problem is that our laws damn to hell anyone that just made a mistake one night the same way they damn the habitual drinker that constantly puts lives at risk. As with many things in our legal system, it is more about punishment and collecting revenue than about solving actual problems.

[Cobraman]

So what happens if your windows are down?