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Fresno police initiate DUI sting
The Fresno Bee ^ | 3-8-06 | Tim Eberly

Posted on 03/08/2006 6:12:23 AM PST by Enterprise

"Fresno police are taking enforcement of drunken driving laws to a new level — which officers expect will bring both success and outrage. Saturday night, the traffic unit unveiled a new operation in which plainclothes police officers stake out bars and target drunk patrons. If the heavy drinkers get behind the wheel, officers in unmarked cars follow them and call in marked police cars to pull them over."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: alcohol; alcoholism; bar; drinking; drunk; drunkard; drunkdriving; dui; duisting; dwi; flask; fresno; fresnopd; intoxicated; intoxication; lawsuitaftercrash; liquor; liquoredup; lubricated; madd; policeabuse; policeliability; sauced; smashed
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To: elkfersupper
Hi elkfersupper-

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. Why would halting lcohol consumption be a recipe for disaster when out at a restaurant or bar? The only thing that can reduce BAC is the passage of time. Let me know if I missed a secondary meaning to your post.

~ Blue Jays ~

261 posted on 03/08/2006 7:22:45 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: LearnsFromMistakes
fantical defense of drinking and driving.

Unless you have some sort of different comprehensive method, I see very few people on this thread advocating drinking and driving.

I certainly don't.

262 posted on 03/08/2006 7:25:22 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Petronski

WOW police keeping drunks off the road............bastards!...lol


263 posted on 03/08/2006 7:30:59 PM PST by JABBERBONK
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To: steel_resolve

I'll bet you'll be saying that when they lock you up for 20 years for DUI manslaughter.......clown


264 posted on 03/08/2006 7:32:25 PM PST by JABBERBONK
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To: Scotsman will be Free
Oh, really! So cops should commit perjury to send someone to prison, eh? I'm not "kinda glad" you are not a cop, but very thankful. Your moniker should be trailerpark trash.

If that's what you were implying by the words I quoted, then I must apologize for taking them the wrong way.

265 posted on 03/08/2006 7:32:53 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass
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To: JABBERBONK

The Soviet Union had a low crime rate.


266 posted on 03/08/2006 7:34:39 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Blue Jays
The only thing that can reduce BAC is the passage of time.

That's right, but an hour per drink is not enough. All coffee can do is make one a speeded-up drunk in the eyes of the law.

Any admission, or any alcohol consumption prior to driving; or for that matter, driving a new car, living in a new or recently-refurbished house, or recently being around paints, solvents, sealants, adhesives, fuels, lubricants, etc. can make you a candidate.

So can the Adkins diet, diabetes, smoking, ad nauseum.

In short, anyone driving who attracts the attention of law enforcement can be convicted of DUI.

I wasn't scolding you, I just want people to know what it's like out there.

267 posted on 03/08/2006 7:34:56 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Bob Buchholz

I love that joke.....I was going to post it until I saw you had done the work for me.....


268 posted on 03/08/2006 7:37:01 PM PST by Loud Mime ("Countdown" - A documentary about Keith Olbermann's dwindling IQ)
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To: elkfersupper
very few people on this thread advocating drinking and driving

There are a lot of threads on FR about this very topic. On every one of them, people all but claiming that their BAC makes them better drivers, police only pick up drunk-drivers for insert tinfoil-hat theory here, yadda yadda yadda. I don't drink (ever), but I don't mind when others do. Just stay off the road.

269 posted on 03/08/2006 7:44:25 PM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Member VRWC - Volvo-owning right-wing conspiracy)
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To: LearnsFromMistakes
Just stay off the road.

As long as you do too, that's fine with us.

Ban the wheel. It's dangerous (for the children, of course).

270 posted on 03/08/2006 7:47:19 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
Ban the wheel. It's dangerous (for the children, of course).

Mental note. Don't argue against drinking and driving on FR again...

271 posted on 03/08/2006 7:59:50 PM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Member VRWC - Volvo-owning right-wing conspiracy)
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To: JABBERBONK

Go F Yourself.


272 posted on 03/08/2006 8:03:26 PM PST by steel_resolve (Who's up for an animated contest of freedom?)
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To: LearnsFromMistakes
Mental note. Don't argue against drinking and driving on FR again...

We're not talking about arguments against drinking and driving here.

Just read your tagline and home page. Unless you're willing to admit that you have never been "impaired" by the antics of your progeny while driving your Volvo with them in their state-mandated child safety seats in the back seats (thanks to federally-mandated explosive devices in the front seats), you have nothing to complain about.

273 posted on 03/08/2006 8:39:39 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: steel_resolve; JABBERBONK

Double for me.


274 posted on 03/08/2006 8:42:15 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Enterprise

Been to the Dirty Olive lately??? I like the DO but I am not sure I want to meet friends there now that there is undercover agents hanging out in the bar.


275 posted on 03/08/2006 10:10:10 PM PST by kmiller1k (remain calm)
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To: kmiller1k
I've never been there. But, maybe now I will go by and lend moral support and drink a couple of Jack Daniels to toast the new tone in Government.

Ray Appleton referenced a letter published in the Bee by a woman named Evelyn. She made a very profound point and the essence is that people are in fear of the Government just for doing the normal things in life like watering the lawn, having a fire in the fireplace, or driving a car.

276 posted on 03/09/2006 2:09:08 AM PST by Enterprise (The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
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To: elkfersupper
Just ban production, sale, distribution, posession, consumption of the stuff. Oops, I forgot. That's already been tried.

Not under modern day jurisprudence. Asset forfeiture, mandatory minimum sentencing, wire-tapping, a greatly weakened 4th and 5th Amendments. It all works so well in the Drug War, it might be worth another try with booze.

277 posted on 03/09/2006 3:36:29 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Scotsman will be Free
You keep forgetting to throw in the jackbooted thug/brown shirt descriptions.

That's not my thing, and I never said all or most are crooked. I see cops no different than politicians. I'm not at all suprised when one of them gets caught. At the same time, I don't buy the crap that a cop can't do this or that because of the law or the Bill of Rights. When they pull you over they can do any damn thing they want and it's tough as hell to show any different. That's just the way it is.

278 posted on 03/09/2006 5:04:20 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto

Like hell you didn't say they were all crooked. You implied that they were all crooked because none of them followed the straight and narrow law, and also implied that they all make up reasons to stop you, and they all can, and do, anything they want. Call it what you will.


279 posted on 03/09/2006 9:25:30 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free
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