WrapFactory
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Tonight leaving the golf course club house there was a dui check point. We made it through without issue but part of the group we just met got sent to the secondary check area. Did everyone make it through ok?
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DUI check point, what a way to be welcomed to cuba!
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fastfraser
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It's LEO doing what We pay them to do. If you are like most people and don't drink and drive then you have no worries ! Drink and drive you deserve every thing you get !
Certainly no reflection on CUBA !!!!
Certainly no reflection on CUBA !!!!
dltang
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:agree: This isn't about Cuba, MO. This is about riding responsibly. I did not see a check point when I left but would have had no issues if I had to be checked. If you have been drinking you need to stay off the roads.
Idaspud
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wnerWrapFactory
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Maybe my original post came across wrong. I don't drink and certainly wasn't implying that people should get away with drinking and driving. Doesn't mean the check point wasn't a hassle.
Lamonster
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I'll take a little hassle if it helps keep me from be killed or worst because of someone else actions. If you've ever loss a loved one to a drunk driver it will change your whole outlook on drinking and driving and the folks that have to deal with them. nojoke
Firefly
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Guess they should have checkpoints for people talking on cell phones or texting--- which causes just as many accidents as drinking and driving.....
Checkpoints like that are illegal in Michigan. Didn't know they were legal in MO. Hope everyone that might have had a beer or two checked out okay. We decided to do our drinking back at the hotel.
While not defending drunk drivers, these checkpoints are more about money than safety - just like speeding tickets - it's big profit for them.
Checkpoints like that are illegal in Michigan. Didn't know they were legal in MO. Hope everyone that might have had a beer or two checked out okay. We decided to do our drinking back at the hotel.
While not defending drunk drivers, these checkpoints are more about money than safety - just like speeding tickets - it's big profit for them.
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dancogan
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Maybe they should. Doesn't make checkpoints for DUI wrong ... Just a bit harder to catch texting at a checkpoint! lol
In recent 2011 study 74.2 percent of US riders will take a ride and stop along the way for 2.8 beers and a half pound burger at a dive/greasy spoon and then without a break roar out of its parking lot spitting gravel and yelling. According to the study It's considered SOP for most riders. They also noted that this stat was up .2 percent from 2010.
Bob Denman
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ABSO-Freakin'-LUTELY correct!:2thumbs: Thanks for putting it down so well! I've lost friends to drunks on the road and I sell insurance... Just about every week at work I hear of another tragedy and devastated family...
DUI checkpoints aren't just about money. They may even have saved your loved ones more times that you'd imagine.
(Okay... I'm climbing down from the soapbox! If I've bruised anybody's ego;:lecturef_smilie: TOUGH!)
bikeguy
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Not questioning XLT's quoting of this stat but, quite honestly, I don't believe it. It certainly doesn't reflect the people I have ridden with over the years. I know it happens but it's hard to believe that 3 out of 4 riders are that stupid. Several times a year I will read in the paper where a rider was killed the night before when he missed a corner in a one vehicle accident in the wee hours of the morning. It's pretty safe to assume that he had been drinking. Nine times out of ten follow up stories reveal that his blood/alcohol content was above the legal limit and that he had only been riding for a short time. Riders who regularly practice this kind of behavior don't usually last long.
I'll drink a couple of beers after the day's riding is done but I absolutely will NOT ride after drinking even one beer. It's not that I think one beer will impair me to the point that I can't ride but it's just a lot easier to set the limit at zero than to try to establish a safe limit. I KNOW that zero is safe.
All that said, I agree with much of Firefly's post, especially the part about cell phones and texting. I truly believe that in Texas cell phones are currently more of a hazard than drunk driving. Law enforcement has cracked down so hard on DWI in Texas that I don't see much of it anymore. All the symptoms that I used to associate with drunk driving are more likely associated with cell phone use nowadays. Distracted drivers are a huge hazard whether the distraction is caused by alcohol or electronic devices. I'll be glad when law enforcement begins to take cell phone use while driving as seriously as they have taken drunk driving.
Cotton
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SpyderRyderTV
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It can be rationalized to death about drinking and driving, who can handle it and who cannot, parking lots at bars etc. etc.. It comes down too you are breaking the law if you drink and drive. Change the laws if you want to drink and drive or pay the consequences of the laws you already have. :dontknow: :chat: :chat:
SpyderWolf
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:agree: Well said and I couldn't agree more.
Here in SC they have checkpoints like this all the time and they check everything. If you are not wearing your seatbelt you get a ticket, if the tint on your windshield is below the AS-1 line you get a warning or a ticket, if you have been drinking you will go to jail.
If there happens to be a side road shortly before the checkpoint and you turn down it they will send a car after you. I happened to live on the road I turned down at the time and had to prove my residency and that I was not trying to evade the checkpoint.
Sure it probably makes a good bit of money for the state, but at the same time if it helps keep drunk drivers off the roads then I will give them my full support. As someone else stated, the police do not make the policies they just do their job and enforce them.
Around here those are called Poker Runs. I have quit attending many of them for the reason you stated above, they just become rolling beer stops. When I do attend I always make sure to get a copy of the route so if the group I am with starts behaving like that I can take off on my own and finish the ride. Of course there is always the big after party as well and I am amazed the police aren't set up just down the street from that as they could make a ton of money all evening long. nojoke
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