Re: Rant!
Re: Rant!
Reminds me of a time a few years back. A citizen asked me to patrol his street because of all of the speeders on his street. The ONLY person I caught TWICE was him. Hmmm?<br />Also, what would YOu do if your family member got ran down by a drunk driver? You would blame the COPS for not preventing that one drunk on that one street from hurting someone you know. <br />Obviously you are confused, the LOCAL COPS do NOT have authority over the MEXICAN BORDER. If we did, I would not be here right now. <br />Of course we are going to ask everyone where thet are coming from, where they are going, what they are doing. In part to be friendly, in part to pass the time smoothly, and in part to know who we are dealing with. Did you know in your infinate wisdom that 90% of all drunk drivers, the biggest sign is combative behavior or beligerant behavior? Was it that big of a deal and such a horror to your life that you couldn't just say at a fund raiser? I would be proud of coming from something like that and would want someone to know. Or were you searching for a fight? I do not agree with the checkpoints either, but how else can we appease all of the complaining ignorant citizens when they cry about their friend or relative or child that was killed by a drunk driver? Sure YOU don't drink and drive, but how is the cop to know, especially when you show a beligerant attitude just like a drunk would. I bet you also did not know that it is not always easy to detect drunk drivers just by a simple traffic contact. One way to tell if they are drunk is to talk to them. Sure some smell like a drunk, but I am sure you also know that alcohol has no oder. Drinks like vodka, everclear and a few others have no oder left behind. Also a bike rider smells less like booze when drunk because they are airing out, so how to tell, talk to them a few seconds. <br />I am sure you are right, that cop out there earning $25000 a year is interested in nothing more than lining the courts pockets. In most states that is the exact reason that the courts do not collect the money from fines and such. In most areas it would be much better NOT to arrest anyone, it always costs way more than is ever recovered. I am sure that cop is just interested in nothing more than #1 dispensing taxpayers money on public defenders. #2 spending over $100 of the courts money on alcohol testing. #3 spending money out of the Sheriffs budget to jail and house that drunk. All well over the court costs. <br />yes, drunk checkpoints are not pleasant, they hold us up for a few minutes. But they have proven to be effective in getting drunks off of the street. Maybe just maybe that drunk they did take off of the street was the one that would have ran your rear over a few miles down the road. Just maybe.<br />A last parting thought. When you go out and scrape the remains of a 3 year old child off of the road, yes I said scrape...smeared over 23 feet. Then pick up the dead father after watching the mother die in front of you....then and only then will I sit back quietly and listen to your tirade of how important you are that you should not show the common courtesy at a DUI checkpoint. <br />Sorry to offend all here, but I get kind of fed up. And really sorry to go off like this Flahthead. But like I said, the memory of a little girl only recognized by her bloody dress and a clump of blond hair is something that I will live with forever because of a drunk driver. I will fight and do everything I can to get them off of the street so this never happens again and in this I don't care who I offend. In reality the only appology I really owe is to that little girl because I wasn't there to save her and her family. Or maybe to her 6 year old sister that is now living with grandma and grandpa. Oh yeah, the drunk came out without a scratch and of course it was not his fault!
I gave the guy the exact same respect he gave me.
