tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29048052.post8711742548986902569..comments2024-02-24T21:30:36.856-06:00Comments on Capt. Spaulding's World: St. Patrick's Day KC-MO Police Checkpoint Nails 63 PeopleGroucho K. Marxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09299051204220376578noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29048052.post-66105757851150627402011-03-18T10:52:26.419-05:002011-03-18T10:52:26.419-05:00You know I have went through a check point two tim...You know I have went through a check point two times in my life. Once was after a bank robbery in a Miami county bank and the highway patrol had a check point set up out on the highway and it was a very quick stop looked at me and glance inside real quick very courteous and sorry for having to bother me type talk.<br /><br />Couple of years later same highway going home from helping a friend rehab a rental property and having dinner with same I see flares along the road ahead moving traffic off the highway to the exit ramp. My first thoughts are bad wreck or such up ahead then I can see cars getting back on the highway so lo and behold it’s a drunk driver checkpoint.<br /><br />After approximately fifteen minutes and cars are now backing out onto the highway I come up to the officer of the county I happened to be in and he tells me this is a sobriety check point. I’m like ok and he starts asking me if I had been drinking, where I had been, who I had been with, and where was I going? Well at this point I was semi pissed off. I said no I had not been drinking and other than that was none of his business where or what anything. Well they made me pull over and I was told I had to blow since I was under suspicion of drunk driving. I blew their machine and is was negative as I knew it would be and had my license ran and the other officer said I was cleared to go. I told him this was horsecrap and piss poor representation of what real police work is suppose to be about.<br /><br />I hate drunk drivers as well and want them off the roads the same as anyone else. I hate check points as well because they are abused. A simple have you been drinking will do the trick a look at the face and the breath will answer that question and on you should be allowed to go. <br /><br />What is the real answer for controlling drunk driving, I have no idea for sure. Maybe tougher fines and real community service in the hundreds of hours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com