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drink driving check
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
With the drug side of things you have to show that the person was 'impaired', and it can also mean any drug, not necessarily illegal ones. When you next get a prescription, check what it says on the label. If it says 'Do not operate machinery.....', what do we do?
Also certain chemicals that the average person can be exposed to in everyday life can cause a breath test machine to register as 'over', eg toluene, which is found in most adhesives.
So if you have a day laying cork tiles on the floor, using glue, you could well register as over, and it has been held in a court of law that toluene is a drug.
Please do not get me wrong, I am not pro or whatever label could be thrown at me. Drink/Driving is wrong. Disqulaified driving is wrong. All crime is wrong
If you know someone who drink/drug drives, phone Plod and get them nicked. It really is that simple.
att:
I am suprised at some of the comments passed on here about civil liberties etc.
I suppose the majority of the great british public will indeed be relieved when the State microchips everyone of us.
It will be here within the next 20 years.
The public will accept it with open arms by the time they have finished getting themselves into such a state as they see it as the only way to stop others from harming them and their material possessions :roll:
The richer we become the less freedom we have, we do it to ourselves :roll:
Folk need to be more chilled about stuff and life in general.
People are going to die despite all the action taken by authorities etc.
4X4`s will be banned soon enough too, they are more harmful to a pedestrian than anything else, best we ban them at the same time as everything else.
If your child was to be run over, would you choose a 4X4 or a modern normal size car to administer the impact?.....Bring into the equation the fitment of bullbar and winch and I don`t think there would be an argument of any sort.....
discograham:
Lord Shagg-Pyle...
I take your point regarding the effects that other chemicals may have on the human body.. and at this point have no comment to make.. :shock:
However... regarding the idea of ringing the police to advise them of a drunk driver's location... No... it simply won't work. I have done exactly that.... back to police response times... not good enough..
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "att" ---I am suprised at some of the comments passed on here about civil liberties etc.
I suppose the majority of the great british public will indeed be relieved when the State microchips everyone of us.
It will be here within the next 20 years.
The public will accept it with open arms by the time they have finished getting themselves into such a state as they see it as the only way to stop others from harming them and their material possessions :roll:
The richer we become the less freedom we have, we do it to ourselves :roll:
Folk need to be more chilled about stuff and life in general.
People are going to die despite all the action taken by authorities etc.
4X4`s will be banned soon enough too, they are more harmful to a pedestrian than anything else, best we ban them at the same time as everything else.
If your child was to be run over, would you choose a 4X4 or a modern normal size car to administer the impact?.....Bring into the equation the fitment of bullbar and winch and I don`t think there would be an argument of any sort.....
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Some aspects of the above I agree with, but if we can do something to alleviate the suffering caused by the idiot minority, surely that is better?
If a person gets hit by any sort of vehicle it will cause damage.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "discograham" ---Lord Shagg-Pyle...
I take your point regarding the effects that other chemicals may have on the human body.. and at this point have no comment to make.. :shock:
However... regarding the idea of ringing the police to advise them of a drunk driver's location... No... it simply won't work. I have done exactly that.... back to police response times... not good enough..
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If you phone enough times, they will have to sit up and take notice. Everything these days is monitored for performance figures, so if enough people phone something has to be done.
No worries about having no comment, DiscoGraham. Have we found mutual ground?
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