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Subject: Re: Re: slow cars in left lane
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> But you're a fool if you think drunk-driving test points are a bad
> idea. I once saw the car in front of me weave into a guard rail a
> number of times. (It's a miracle he was able to 'drive' at all)
> 
> Amazingly, the cops had a testing point on that road, and needless to
> say, he was busted. I hope they took his license away for the rest of
> his life.
> 
> Absolutes are idiotic. Sometimes you've *got* to give in to a few
> inconveniences for your own safety. The police were INSURING my RIGHT
> to live by getting that idiot off the road.
>       			      Dave Bloom

	What SHOULD have happened in this situation is one of the
(should be) many cops PATROLING the road should have pulled this
drunk over, probably long before you ever saw him.  (With probable
cause, having seen the drunk weave.)   Instead, the police caught
him at a random check point, where you are required to prove you
inocence!  This is the problem.
	Few check points are not random.  However in some states
they park a car up the road a mile or so, and call in the cars to be
checked.  This includes what I require in the way of probable cause,
and I think this version (non-random) is fair.
	Random testing, thought, assumes guilt on a ramdom basis,
then requires you to prove your inocence.  (If you say that it
doesn't really assume your guilt, than how come many states will
"give you a ride downtown" for refusing to take the test, even if
you don't appear drunk!)

			Who are these strangers that come in the door,
			cover your action, and go you one more?

...ihnp4!ltuxa!ll1!cej			Llewellyn Jones