Vehicle Checkpoints.

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  1. Von Jones

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    I'm on my way home from Lowe's around 8:30 pm and I could see in the distance the blinking lights of a patrol car. It must be pretty bad I thought with the orange barrels.

    On the passenger side a orange sign read be prepared to stop. Huh? A few feet on the driver's side another orange sign read Have your driver's license ready. sobriety check 005.jpg

    Several vehicles did u-turns and that's when it dawned on me it was a checkpoint for a sobriety test.

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    My first ever. It was nothing like I have seen on TV. This nice officer introduced himself and purpose and asked me for my DL; looked at it; asked for my birthday then handed it back to me. I had my proof of insurance ready, moistened my lips with ready to take a breath tests though I don't drink I just expected it to happen. I guess he saw my big bag of pretzels opened next to me :D.
     
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    Nice to know there are kinder cops in the USA than the media always portrays... :)
     
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    Yvonne, I'd have thought twice before I had taken a photo of an officer in duty? :D
     
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    I did ask him, never got an answer though. Another officer came up beside him when I was taking the shot, hence his profile.
     
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    I encountered one of hose checkpoints years ago in Ohio, but I have never encountered another.
     
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    Are you referring to the 'emissions' checkpoint?
     
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    They have those license checkpoint fairly often between my house and town. It's in a spot that you can't see the cars before you are almost upon it. I have seen people make a quick turn and go the other way. That's a sure giveaway that they are drinking or in some kind of violation of the law. There are several officers at the checkpoint and they take off after the turnarounders.
     
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    I've only been stopped once at a checkpoint, but it was more like a road block. They were looking for a "suspect" in some crime. It was here in Georgia, way out in the country. They didn't check the trunk. :)
     
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    Nope, it was on I90 (I think) outside Cleveland. They said it was a sobriety checkpoint, and they diverted the entire interstate though a checkpoint in a rest stop. It was quick, license and alcohol check (just by sniffing the open car window) and then on the way. It took less than a minute or so or most to go through. There were not yet emissions checks then. It was some time ago.
     
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    In Spain at the beginning of this month, they did a week solid random check for drivers )drugs and alcohol)...shockingly in just a week they charged 190,00 drivers over the drink drive limit, and about half of that again.. with opiates in their system!!
     
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    @Don Alaska, those checkpoints are usually setup in different locations around the city and during the week/end of an upcoming holiday.

    @Holly Saunders raising awareness in progress.
     
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    @Von Jones Of course he was nice to you, you all but got a selfie with him. :p
     
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    @Nancy Hart

    Lucky you, eh?
    Frank
     
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