DUI Checkpoint Tonight

[xeus]

Hamilton County is going to be out in full force tonight, violating your 4th Amendment rights at a checkpoint on Pfeiffer Road.

Hamilton County OVI Task Force (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110225/NEWS01/302250016/DUI-checkpoint-location-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News)

[Porkopolis]

I used to say I couldn't imagine anyone is dumb enough to go through a DUI checkpoint while intoxicated. Then my brother-in-law went through one drunk (blew a .2!) with a crack pipe and some pot in his glove box and changed my mind.:eek:

[boozehound]

I used to say I couldn't imagine anyone is dumb enough to go through a DUI checkpoint while intoxicated. Then my brother-in-law went through one drunk (blew a .2!) with a crack pipe and some pot in his glove box and changed my mind.:eek:

A crack pipe?

[Porkopolis]

A crack pipe?

Yep. Bright bulb, that one.

[TPH2011]

I used to say I couldn't imagine anyone is dumb enough to go through a DUI checkpoint while intoxicated. Then my brother-in-law went through one drunk (blew a .2!) with a crack pipe and some pot in his glove box and changed my mind.:eek:

Is your brother-in-law Charlie Sheen?

[BBC 08]

Is your brother Charlie Sheen?

http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/F-18.jpg

[Porkopolis]

Is your brother-in-law Charlie Sheen?

Nope, he's much less discreet than Mr. Sheen. :D

[ATL Muskie]

It's like when you know it's Spring.....robins in your yard or daffodils sprouting from the ground. This is a sure sign Andy Kennedy and Bob Huggins are in town.

[Kahns Krazy]

I drove through one last year. We were getting home from vacation late on a Saturday, I hadn't been drinking all day, so I wanted to see what one looked like.

It looks like a colossal waste of money.

[ATL Muskie]

It's your too-low tax dollars at work. Set up a checkpoint at the library. THEN you will catch some drunks. Trust me on that one.....

[xeus]

It's your too-low tax dollars at work. Set up a checkpoint at the library. THEN you will catch some drunks. Trust me on that one.....

Most of the drunks at the library have either walked there, or taken the streetcar.

[Kahns Krazy]

I wish I had a picture. There are portable lights, traffic cones, officers and cars everywhere, signs set up for miles around and handouts for every person passing through.

I can't imagine what the pricetag is for one of these checkpoints. It would not surprise me at all to find every officer out there is getting overtime pay for an event like this.


Here's a picture from one in Pennsylvania. It's similar to the one I went through. What a waste.
http://www.paduiblog.com/uploads/image/DUicheckpoint.jpg

[Strange Brew]

[QUOTE=Kahns Krazy;251909] There are portable lights, traffic cones, officers and cars everywhere[QUOTE]

Glad to see Jimmie Binnie is putting is UD degree to good work.

[xeus]

Here's a picture from one in Pennsylvania. It's similar to the one I went through. What a waste.
http://www.paduiblog.com/uploads/image/DUicheckpoint.jpg

That's shamefully un-American.

"Danny, this isn't Russia. Is this Russia? This isn't Russia is it? I didn't think so."

[X-band '01]

That looks more like the infamous I-70-Breezewood tollbooth interchange as opposed to a DUI checkpoint. The only thing missing in that picture are the toolbooths themselves.

[Smooth]

I wish I had a picture. There are portable lights, traffic cones, officers and cars everywhere, signs set up for miles around and handouts for every person passing through.

I can't imagine what the pricetag is for one of these checkpoints. It would not surprise me at all to find every officer out there is getting overtime pay for an event like this.


Here's a picture from one in Pennsylvania. It's similar to the one I went through. What a waste.
http://www.paduiblog.com/uploads/image/DUicheckpoint.jpg

So, if you are lucky enough to be in the 3rd lane from the right you only have to smell the breath of 3 cops?

[Titanxman04]

That looks more like the infamous I-70-Breezewood tollbooth interchange as opposed to a DUI checkpoint. The only thing missing in that picture are the toolbooths themselves.

O.M.G. So, thats the route we took to get to DC this weekend for a funeral. Breezewood is a complete tourist trap! You're exactly right.

We're actually going back through there tomorrow. Wish us luck.