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If you are not under the influence, always demand a blood test and refuse to allow an officer to use "their judgment.”
Know your rights. Here are North Carolina’s.
Alternatively, if you know you'll blow 0s, demand the breath test at the station. The breath test on the side of the road only provides probable cause and is not itself admissible as evidence of actual intoxication. Blood tests can reveal other potential intoxicants like adderall or something. Depending on state they may be able to play a little fast and loose on what qualifies as "driving under the influence" even if it's a prescribed medicine being used appropriately.
You’re still paying for all the bullshit like tow fees.
Don’t want to dig it up - but it was a YouTube video of an officer at the station bitching at the person who blew 0 for wasting their time of dragging them in for testing when they were sober.
Can’t win – but it’s cheaper than a DUI.
If you're completely sober and they're to the point of field sobriety tests or the PBT (Preliminary Breath Test), you're almost assuredly getting arrested regardless. At that point there is nothing you can do at the roadside to help your case. You can only hurt it. If some ignorant pissant wants to cry because they fucked up and "wasted their time", fuck 'em.
One thing I saw somewhere cautioned against the breathalyzer because it’s sensitive to alcohol (as in hand sanitizer alcohol).
Hand sanitizer alcohol and drinking alcohol are the same alcohol...one just has flavor, and the other is mixed with a gel.
Edit: apparently there are different types
No, no, no! They absolutely are not the same, and if you tried drinking isopropyl alcohol (even watered down as rubbing alcohol), you’d do serious damage to your body.
Ethanol based hand sanitizers became popular during covid due to shortages and I still run into them occasionally. They're the ones that smell like moonshine ... I still advise against drinking them.
I can't remember which alcohol company bottled/made it, but I had a bottle of sanitizer given to me when none of the stores had any available. It smelled god awful. Like the last dregs of a bottle of everclear after its been sat out for 3 days. I couldn't give that bottle away to anyone so I just left it in a lobby somewhere.
I wasn't aware any hand sanitizer used isopropyl, but apparently some do. Others use ethanol.
Isopropyl is ethanol, with added poison
Do I smell a promotion?!
I don't trust cops
Why would he still have a job after the third one?
One could be an accident. Shit happens.
Two? Possibly a coincidence. Maybe.
3 ?? No he’s just stupid. Fire him.
Only the powerful are safe.
Holy crap he is a horrible person and a horrible cop. Not surprised the troopers didn't find he didn't anything wrong and the man continues to violate peoples rights.
“We don’t have quotas”
Of the 16 cases of sober DUI arrests that WSMV has uncovered, eight were done by Trooper Zahn. Notably, authorities across the state have arrested over 600 sober people for DUI since 2017.
What happens when they fill out the whole punch card?
Free doughnuts
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