I was driving home after a darts night at the legion and I got pulled over in a R.I.D.E*. program yesterday.
The officer said he smelt alcohol in the car.
'Not me officer, it's my passenger'.
'Step out of the car sir'.
'Blow into here please'.
Big puff into meter.
'Oh, zero' he said with a disappointed look.
'As I said officer, it's my passenger'.
'Have a good night sir'
It surprised me that there was no trace in my breath.
I'd had a couple of single malts three hours earlier and followed that with soft drinks. How long does it take to get two shots of Scotch out your system?

Don't drink and drive.
*Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere.

 

Depends on a lot of things....your weight, alcohol content, and time....1 12 oz beer an hour or 1 4 oz shot an hour is a safe bet...the soft drinks helped delute the it, but I am surprised it was zero myself...

 

Proof positive (no pun intended) that no good deed goes unpunished.

You must have fit the "profile."

How cute was your "passenger?"

BTW physical activity can metabolize the alcohol. Them "darts" matches can get testy.

 

I am exactly 180 pounds, all muscle. I had one Scotch at 7, another at 8 and then had three iced teas (real hard stuff) after that. I was stopped at 10.30. I guess the liver is still working OK.
I normally only have one drink at 7 and then the iced teas.
I phoned in a drunk and followed him until he was picked up, he had a minor bump and got away with that. I was on my cell phone with the dispatcher going all round the houses, he may have known I was tailing him. If so that's all he did know, he was stoned.
A friends only daughter and only grandchild were T-boned and killed by a drunk driver. His only son had died previously in a motor cycle accident. Sad story.

Well, I pulled out of the Legion parking lot and the cop was on my tail at once. They ended up with three cops cars, I guess I looked too tough to handle.
My passenger was a 65 year old Scot from Glasgow, that should answer your 'cute' question. His wife drives him there and as I pass his house more or less I drive him home. He has five or six drinks, hell I could even smell his breath.

 

Seems we have that problem here. Not with the Scots but with the police parking just outside a high class restaurante knowing full well the guy in the Merc or the BMW just shared a bottle of vino with his companion.
Why they don't spend more time in the "tough" neighborhoods around the biker bars and such, I can't guess. Perhaps they get enough of that kind of workk without having to go look for it.

No offense Oledoc but it seems kinda prevalent accross the country and a rather lazy way to make the monthly book tallies.


roadster with a stick

BTW Dave, glad to hear you're still intimidating despite your advanced years.

 

Your right, don't cross me after I've had a Scotch and a belly full of iced teas.
LOL

 

I never sat on bars Franc....they always seemed to find me...if they have had problems or complaints from the neighbors, then it could happen, but sitting on a legion, vfw, seems a little low to me too...

 

Don't drink and Dive,
If you drink like a fish, don't swim,
Really don't drink and drive or dive
I my foolish years we put down a habitat in a local lake, a dome off a (new) septic tank. The Dome sat in 40 ft of water and anchored @ about 110 ft in loon sh(one)t. When one of the guys hit a 100,(Hours, dives, conquests)we would take a bottle of Champagne down and open it , some times the bell smelt like weed.but thats another story

 

so, let me understand, you equalized this chamber so you guys could get in there and drink...when practicing our rescue dives on old cars, vans, and boats....or I should say recovery more than rescue....we tried to do that once...but only ended up with about a foot of space, just enough to take the mask off...lol

 

Thanks Franc. Being a biker who also drives an XFire, I am now confused over whether I am a well to do guy in a suit who just had a couple of glasses of wine at a nice restaurant or a tough biker who probably downed a case of beer just to get going this morning.

As a biker I can assure you, we get more than our fair share of police harassment and profiling.

 

Well, in Indy, belonging to the local Harley Club...we get escorts from, you guessed it, the local IMPD Drill Team...and what do they ride,....Harleys...so, no harrassment from these guys....they all love to ride...most of the officers in this county ride as well...and let me tell you...there is nothing worse, than a pack of cops on bikes...everything goes...seriously...one just got in trouble before the weather turned cold for an 80mph run down the local loop....not for speeding either....he was doing his "stand up on the seat, hands out to the side" trick....needs to remain in the parade routes I quess....lol....

 

I would like to see some of that zealousness to bust drunks enlarge to busting driving texters. I and my biker buddies have almost been killed by chicks on cellphones (ok, call me sexist, but it's the truth), how much worse teenagers typing. How about MADD founding a sister group, MATT, Mothers against texting teenagers.

 

OH, Please. The texting 20-something girls - what bigger threat to America is there?

We have one at work, her last day it tomorrow (there is a recession on, ya know) she sure makes a cute decoration - but I wouldn't ride with her.

 

If she's that cute why don't they keep her and get rid of you know who?

 

Plenty of LEO involvement and support here as well. Very few cops involved in biker harassment usually, more often it's the law makers and higher ups who decide bikers need to be harassed in order to save the world.

 

No comment, officer.