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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: DWI crackdowns, BAC, testing
Message-ID: <619@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 21:22:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 21:22:46 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <2743@harpo.UUCP> jrl@harpo.UUCP (J. Liano) writes:
>                                                          ... What is needed
>is for all states that have DWI harassment policies to also require that any
>bar in the state make avaiable to its patrons the use of a breath-a-lizer
>device of the same type and calibration that the police use.

>     How many of you netters out there think that the bars should be
>forced to provide their patrons a means to determine their BAC, before
>they drive home ? 

In an ideal world this might  even  work,  but  in  an  ideal  world  there
wouldn't be drunk drivers in the first place.

Unfortunately, this idea fails to take into account the attitudes of people
who  drink  and  drive.  Most of them either believe they can drive safely,
regardless of BAC, or just don't give a damn.  I can see  the  presence  of
such  machines  giving rise to contests in which people try to see how high
they can make it register or how high they can get their BAC before passing
out.  I can't see them stopping someone who's already drunk from driving in
that condition.

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