"No refusal weekend"

[Tannerm]

Nurse that administer the blood draw ask them of any known medical problems. If he has a blood disease (.5% of anyone anyone arrested...) then the nurse would advise whether the blood draw was doable. Then the mandatory blood draw would not be done. Lol anyone else with "shoot the moon" scenarios?

[The King]

Dont drink and drive and there wont be problems.

Correct. Implied consent is and has been part of driver licensing privileges for decades. Even the most dimwitted drivers ed graduate should have picked up on that little tidbit, but many of the e-geniuses in this thread obviously did not, LOL.

[stevo]

Correct. Implied consent is and has been part of driver licensing privileges for decades. Even the most dimwitted drivers ed graduate should have picked up on that little tidbit, but many of the e-geniuses in this thread obviously did not, LOL.

What if said person does not have a license and therefor doesn't give them the implied consent?

Stevo

[dblack1]

Taking my blood is against my religious beliefs. I wonder how that one is going to work out for them.

All it takes is one dude who doesn't mind going out in a blaze of glory. Cops have too much power.

[Tyrone Biggums]

So, if Elvis and I can stumble out of the car and pull off our Kid 'N Play dance routine flawlessly, will that qualify as a "passing" field sobriety test?

If so, drinks are on me!

[Chopped54]

I see blood draws 1-2 times a week, usually before noon...
I have also seen a few try to refuse to let them draw. They are going to get the blood, best to just let 'em at that point instead of stacking more charges.

[71chevellejohn]

So, if Elvis and I can stumble out of the car and pull off our Kid 'N Play dance routine flawlessly, will that qualify as a "passing" field sobriety test?

If so, drinks are on me!

I can't wait to see the dashcam video of this!

[jasone]

I got pulled over on the way to the bar a few years back on new years eve. Cop said my license plate light was out and just asked me a bunch of shit to see if I had already been drinking, and then let me go when he realized I was still sober. When I got to the bar I looked at my license plate light and it wasn't out. That asshole lied right to my face just to see if I was drinking and driving. Ever since then I try to stay at home on new years eve.

[ThreeFingerPete]

I got pulled over on the way to the bar a few years back on new years eve. Cop said my license plate light was out and just asked me a bunch of shit to see if I had already been drinking, and then let me go when he realized I was still sober. When I got to the bar I looked at my license plate light and it wasn't out. That asshole lied right to my face just to see if I was drinking and driving. Ever since then I try to stay at home on new years eve.

Oh, you didn't know that cops are people too and many are complete sacks of shit?

Poor baby.

[line-em-up]

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Just mumble, "No speak inglis" and they will apologize and let you go.

[The King]

What if said person does not have a license and therefor doesn't give them the implied consent?

Stevo

They may then suffer the consequences of additional charges in addition to the criminal charge of suspected DWI.

[347Mike]

I'm just going to go to whatever bar is next door to the one ryanb goes to. Then I'll wait for him to leave and follow him as far as possible, 7 car lengths behind.

I laughed....

[NTexas_V-Star]

I quit drinking last year, the day after the DFWM Christmas party at SanFran Rose. If i go out for New Years Eve, and I get pulled over......I'll comply with whatever they need me to do. No sense lengthening a stop. I guarantee there won't be any intoxicants in my system, so I've got nothing to worry about.

[LS1Goat]

So what if you've been taking Coumadin for blood clots? Being forcibly held down and stuck might very well be lethal.

Geez.

Phlebotomy on somebody taking blood thinners is not lethal. I've drawn blood, IV sticks, and DC'd IVs on more patients than I can remember with a variety of comordities. Just like when Chemotherapy patients often get CBCs before each major round of treatment. To look and see where the white counts and platelet counts (among other factors) are before proceeding with the next round. They are not endangered by the blood draw in a clinical setting.

These blood draws will be done by a Nurse or Phlebotomist. Not the office secretary or copy boy.

If you plan on getting wasted this weekend, just stay home or have a DD. Avoid the unnecessary BS that you will go through otherwise. Your disdain against the process is understandable, but I can't see how anybody would want to be arrested and go through all that BS simply as an act of defiance.

I for one am staying off the streets just simply because I don't want some asshole totaling my car. Already went through that once this year. Didn't buy the t-shirt.

Ya'll have a good one.

[clevelandkid]

Pretty soon, it will be a no refusal weekend every day. The fines for DWI are higher than those for failure to control. Prosecutors need the evidence - if you don't blow - it's much harder to prove you've been drinking.

I am very much opposed to drinking and driving, having watched friends die on multiple occasions because of it - but johnny law abider should not have to subject himself to sobriety checkpoints or any other illegal search to allegedly make the rest of us safer.

There are tons of people that get away with drinking and driving every day, checkpoints or not, refusal policies or not. I know because I got away with it at least a few thousand times. The current methods are ineffective.