DUI Checkpoint Video

[hurley842002]

Okay, I swore I wasn't going to involve myself with these threads, but I've been through a local checkpoint so I'll share my experience.

About 6 or 7 years ago, I believe it was the 4th, I was coming home from a friends house in Elizabeth.

Get to around Lincoln and Chambers and traffic is waaay backed up. I just figured it was an accident, and I didn't know the area very well, so I just stayed my course.

I must have progressed half a mile or so, when I realized there were motorcycle cops pulling people over for what I called "breaking line".

When I finally got to the "checkpoint" it must have been an hour that I waited, but the officers were very courteous and professional, quickly explaining what they were doing, and apologizing for the inconvenience, and I was on my way.

I'm from small town southeast Colorado, so this was a first for me. I won't say rather I agree with the concept or effectiveness of DUI checkpoints, because I promised myself I wouldn't get into pissing contests in these threads. What I will say, is this particular experience was a complete waste of my time, quite irritating, and painfully similar to "in an effort to effectively control those who wish to do harm to other's, we must treat all gun owners as criminals". Just my thoughts...

[spyder]

Rondog, why is this guy a "punk"? And please explain how a "white man" would speak with the cop.

Cause the kid was needlessly an asshole. That's why. The cops were pricks also, and more than likely acted that way because the kid was a dick *on purpose. As stated earlier, the cop would have more than likely saw the kid had no liquor on his breath, and was acting fine, and the kid would have been on his way in under 20 seconds. Instead, the kid had to act like a dick and provoke the cop. All he had to do was to roll down his window... That's fucking harmless. Now if the cop reached in, grabbed his head and yanked it out the window to smell his breath, that's a different story. But by being an ass, just to be an ass.... The kid is dumb, but the cops in that video are not any better.....

[OtterbatHellcat]

Well put, Spyder.

[ChunkyMonkey]

I thought the kid was a dick til the cop admittedly said he was innocence.. that's just pure ego and harassment from then on.

[jerrymrc]

Hey, it was a meager attempt on my part to divert the possibility of the thread going racial.

Weak, yes.

It did.