[Eric Blair 2084]

If you click on the link, check out the new smoking ordinance in Fort Worth. Humorous that they have it on the front page as if there is an amber alert or a manhunt.

Not entirely unfair. No smoking in restaurants with chilluns. You can still smoke with fat drunken adult slobs in bars.

[Eric Blair 2084]

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[mtbopfuyn]

Once again, if judges wouldn’t let DUI’s off with a stern look, we wouldn’t be force to be poked with a needle for no reason than the cop had nothing better to do that day.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

While I’m totally against driving while intoxicated I seem to remember reading something in an old dusty document once about the right to refuse to give evidence against yourself in a criminal proceeding.

Don’t this seem odd, you have the right to remain silent but we are going to get your breath, blood etc... even if we have to hold you down and take it from you by force.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Insanity . I wonder if MADD is behind this ?

[Calpernia]

>>>>”If you are stopped by a Fort Worth police officer and you are arrested for DWI, we are going to get a sample,”

This is only if you are arrested for it though, right? Is this really a bad thing?

[Boiling point]

Hemophiliacs, watch out!

[mylife]

I dont know if the mentioned it in the article but they are planning to make this everyday policy.

[2nd amendment mama]

The suspect will then be taken to a room at the Fort Worth Police Department, where at least three officers with Dalworthington Gardens Public Safety Department will be on hand to take their blood.

Aside from possibly being unconstitutional, aren't there any laws in TX requiring that someone who draws blood must be a trained medical professional?

[Inyo-Mono]

In retaliation against you anti-California folks; at least we don’t Draconian measures like this going on here!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Wow. Is this really true?

[saganite]

Hmm. I smoke cigars. I am neither fat, drunken nor a slob. Profiling?

[stimpy17]

I vant to see yar paapers please.

[William Terrell]

"If you refuse to take that blood test, we are going to ask for a warrant from a magistrate and come back and take your blood," said Fort Worth Police Chief Ralph Mendoza. "Basically, we are going to get our evidence one way or the other."

I seem to have read that alcohol is leached from your blood in a relatively short time. Are they going to keep magistrates up night and day? After the warrant is issued, and you make yourself scarce for an appropriate time, where will be the evidence?

[SIDENET]

"If you are stopped by a Fort Worth police officer and you are arrested for DWI, we are going to get a sample," said prosecutor Richard Alpert

Okay Hitler. I'll give you a stool sample.

[MarkL]

I believe that in the state of Missouri, you do have the right to refuse a BAC breath test when pulled over, however it will mean an automatic 1 year drivers license suspension. Even if you haven’t been drinking. It’s a case of presumed guilty until proven innocent.

Mark

[steel_resolve]

"Basically, we are going to get our evidence one way or the other."

Herr Hitler, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[JamesP81]

The suspect will then be taken to a room at the Fort Worth Police Department, where at least three officers with Dalworthington Gardens Public Safety Department will be on hand to take their blood.

I would think that a trained medical professional ought to be doing this procedure.

[17th Miss Regt]

Imagine the following case. A hemophiliac that has not been drinking is stopped at a checkpoint and told to take a breathalyzer test. After refusal, the officer arrests the driver and takes him to the center for processing. During the process, the driver is cut or starts bleeding from the punctured blood vessel. The driver loses a lot of blood and possibly his life as no police personnel have any idea why he is bleeding so much. Liability, anyone? Lots of liability?

[DaGman]

When did probable cause become a non-issue in this country? I missed the headline that day.

[Bernard]

Wouldn’t it be easier to just shoot ‘em? Saves all that paperwork.