The Off Topic Topic

[11B4V]

Start at 1:03 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSn6jtBIqE

[The Brain]

Yup - the crime of refusing to provide a sample.  Which carries an identical penalty to impaired driving.

To give a little support to the Beeb position, as much as it pains me ( ), having zealously fought drunk driving charges on utter technicalities -- to be in this situation in the US there has already been [IN THEORY, I note] on an officer's part:

1) reasonable suspicion to pull you over at all, i.e. based on your driving it is reasonable to suspect a crime is being committed [if it's e.g. speeding, then RS should be found over again to reasonably suspect drunk driving];

2) after pulling you over, probable cause is found to arrest you for the offense (i.e. a reasonable police officer thinks you are probably driving drunk), which is ascertained in a variety of standardized ways: FST's (walking a line heel-toe, raising one foot, touching your nose), HGN (seeing how your eyes move involuntarily in light), general behavior and speech, and then the on-site Breathalyzer (which AFAIK can only be entered as evidence that *some* alcohol was consumed, not the reading.)  The "Intoxylizer" at the station gives the definitive BAC, unless you opt for a blood test in most places.  So by the time a sample is being ordered, it is at least in theory well past the phase of arbitrary "just cause I say so" on the part of cops.

Here, when you refuse to blow into the Intox or give blood (you can always, and generally should, refuse the other tests), you generally get a civil penalty from the motor vehicle dept. suspending your license for a year (usually the same as a 1x DD), aside from any criminal issues.  Which is why you should generally not blow if you already have a DD conviction or 4 on your record, but generally should if you don't.

Couldn't you just drive sober?

[Syt]

Godamn


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DGl4o3B46E

I guess they had a dozen guardian angels to get out of that one. Though the Tiger crew must have gone deaf with all the HE rounds going off on their tank.

[Syt]

Start at 1:03 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSn6jtBIqE

Goes to show how unrealistic computer games are. If I move so predictably or take so little cover as those guys in Arma II, I'll be dead in 10 seconds.

In fact, during my service, I got chewed out by an NCO once because when I heard MG fire a couple hundred meters away while crossing a meadow I didn't immediately hit the ground.

[11B4V]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWn7_5hPSI0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJ-acc9Qsk

[jimmy olsen]

[Caliga]

 

[Zanza]

Germany Unity has not yet happened for Berlin's street lights...

[Liep]

Copenhagen is locked down; Bieber is in town.

[derspiess]

Copenhagen is locked down; Bieber is in town.

Blame Canada.

[Razgovory]

I think my Sciatica is acting up again.

[Ed Anger]

I think my Sciatica is acting up again.

I hate my Sciatica.

[Eddie Teach]

I need to stop clicking links on Languish. Bunch of clips from "Duck Dynasty" showing up on my youtube recommendations.

[Razgovory]

My idiot brother is passed out in the bathroom and I'm not allowed to go in there and beat himwake him up.   Useless fucking drunk.

[11B4V]

My idiot brother is passed out in the bathroom and I'm not allowed to go in there and beat himwake him up.   Useless fucking drunk.

Might want to check and make sure he's not passed out on his back.