Stiff drunk-driving, speeding laws take effect in BC Read more

lol first customer will be the lush Gordon Campbell

I'm all for it! It's a start. Now, if one of the other provinces would 'grow some balls' and pass a 0 Tolerance' law. We might actually get some control over impaired driving.
In view of these changes coming into effect, someone sent me this today. I'm posting it, not as a joke, but to show that there are many other ways to be 'impaired' whilst driving. We got a lot of work to do!

Please, take care of yourself. A recent joint study conducted by the
Department of Health and the Department of Motor Vehicles indicates
that 23% of traffic accidents are alcohol related. This means that
the remaining 77% are caused by assholes who just drink coffee,
carbonated drinks, juices, yogurts, text and talk on cell phones and shit like that. Therefore,
beware of those who do not drink alcohol. They cause three times as many
accidents!

I guess we'll just have to trust the police with this.

That didn't exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy.

That didn't exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy.


Me neither.

Apparently by the sounds of it you don't even have to have "ANY" alcohol in you system for them to immediately ban you from driving and impose a fine.

Break out the cheque books BC Gordo needs a new pair of shoes.

This is just another creative way the Lieberal Dicatatorship of BC is going to increase revenue, cause it isn't going to stop drunk drivers.

Mouthwash will set off a breathalizer 90 minutes later. They had a demo on CTV news today, and hour later the guy was still above .05. Those little road side units aren't very accurate when it comes to blood alcohol levels.
Zero tolerance is not a good idea. Unless you think eating a rum ball should constitute a jail term.

I agree with and appreciated what they're trying to do, but as others have said on here the police should not be judge jury and executioner.
I was pulled over after leaving a bar by an officer who would have thrown away the key even though I wasn't drinking. He was some pissed that he followed my truck out of town instead of anybody else that was in the bar that night. He was not nice to me at all when he found out I wasn't lying, and hadn't had any alcohol. Chip on his shoulder the size of Saskatchewan.

Mouthwash will set off a breathalizer 90 minutes later. They had a demo on CTV news today, and hour later the guy was still above .05. Those little road side units aren't very accurate when it comes to blood alcohol levels.
Zero tolerance is not a good idea. Unless you think eating a rum ball should constitute a jail term.

I agree with and appreciated what they're trying to do, but as others have said on here the police should not be judge jury and executioner.
I was pulled over after leaving a bar by an officer who would have thrown away the key even though I wasn't drinking. He was some pissed that he followed my truck out of town instead of anybody else that was in the bar that night. He was not nice to me at all when he found out I wasn't lying, and hadn't had any alcohol. Chip on his shoulder the size of Saskatchewan.

You're going to cross paths with pricks like that cop from time to time. I've met a couple of his 'brothers' myself!
As far as 0 Tolerance goes, I'm all for it. If it means 'no rumballs, then so be it. Of course mouthwash will give a + reading if it contains alcohol. Use a different brand. There's lots to choose from.

THAT scares me!

I tend to agree with this line of thought too. Driving offences seem to have more repercussions that some criminal acts which include violence. The largest problem with impaired drivers is the repeat offenders which none of this really addresses.

Mouthwash will set off a breathalizer 90 minutes later. They had a demo on CTV news today, and hour later the guy was still above .05. Those little road side units aren't very accurate when it comes to blood alcohol levels.
Zero tolerance is not a good idea. Unless you think eating a rum ball should constitute a jail term.

I agree with and appreciated what they're trying to do, but as others have said on here the police should not be judge jury and executioner.
I was pulled over after leaving a bar by an officer who would have thrown away the key even though I wasn't drinking. He was some pissed that he followed my truck out of town instead of anybody else that was in the bar that night. He was not nice to me at all when he found out I wasn't lying, and hadn't had any alcohol. Chip on his shoulder the size of Saskatchewan.
hey, you got between him and a hot date with a french cruller. What do you expect?

Shit......now I have a craving for one.

Lacking any actual evidence that one drink causes measurable impairment, they've shown again that the gov't can make laws simply because it can, no reason needed. Tack on a complete lack of due process and it's likely to be tossed out as soon as someone wealthy and stubborn enough decides to fund the whole legal process for everyone else.
The pundits were all over the radio yesterday counting the money from the massive fines and having orgasms about how they got to PUNNNNISHHHHHH people.
Count on 10,000 more servers and food service workers being unemployed by the new law. As if the HST wasn't enough to kill the food and hospitality industry,

Why is OR driving such a difficult for most people?

the new drinking and driving laws and the fact that you can lose your license be fined and have your car impounded by a cop with a single handheld roadside Breathalyzer is extremely frightening.

they do not have to take you back to the police station and give you a proper Breathalyzer or allow you to talk to your lawyer.

the police officers are very happy to the fact that now they have to do very little paperwork and any mistakes that they make will not be caught by either a judge or a lawyer.

how quick people forget, the countless cases of police misconduct and misjudgment that have caused citizens pain and even death.

But of course anything I say could not be possibly true because we all know I'm a cop hater