[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by frayedends

I agree, but if the cop thinks you have been drinking you are losing your driving privileges regardless. The key is to not give them any additional evidence. You will be better off in the long run if you don't get convicted. If you say you were drinking any amount or fail a sobriety test, you are getting convicted.

Now in my current adulthood status I would say that if you take a sobriety test there is no way you will pass. I feel now that if you have to take that test you are all but already convicted. HOWEVER, as a young adult, leaving Hampton Beach NH, I was pulled over, took the field sobriety test and passed. I was drunk but not hammered, maybe 4 or 5 beers over 2.5 hours. The officer estimated me at 0.6 or something. But who knows, maybe it was my white priviledge.

I think it was more luck. Hampton Beach employs auxiliary/summer officers every season. NH State Police, reluctantly complements and supports the year round roster with officers. As do many abutting municipalities on a given summer evening. Even in the 80’s (sounds like your timeline), they had more important things going on than open containers and public drinking to address. Also in that era and in your case, officers had discretion and latitude. Now you have body worn and cruiser mounted cameras, much stricter DUI laws, penalties etc. On the bright side....and if it was one of those grey area arrests.....NH, like FL has very skilled DUI specific law firms. Many former LEO turned attorneys

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by paqdkq

In reading THE VILLAGES NEWS there always is an article about people being pulled over for a DUI. When asked how many drinks they have, the answer is around 2. If it takes only 2 drinks to be pulled over, maybe should consider not drinking. I know those people would not lie about how many drinks they have consumed. RIGHT.

Some! Don’t mean thousands

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Or…they can only remember the last two….

No, maybe they only had two. But officer didn’t ask how many joints, pills they popped, or what illegal drugs they’re on. Never seen so many pot heads in my life time as I seen in villages.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

No, maybe they only had two. But officer didn’t ask how many joints, pills they popped, or what illegal drugs they’re on. Never seen so many pot heads in my life time as I seen in villages.

I am guessing you didn't live on a college campus in the 60s or 70s.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Heh. Just as The Daily Sun is nonstop rainbows and unicorns, v i l l a g e s n e w s is all sleaze all the time. The truth content of a lot of the stories may be variable, but you can bet that if a story reflects negatively on The Villager or TV in general, v i l l a g e s. N e w s will run it.

I agree. Some people should not drink. But depending on v i l l a g e s. N e w s for the information necessary to make such a judgment might be just a bit suspect.

You are right. Sometimes when I read about these DUIs, I consider that cops are hearing these supposedly honest Americans lying to them nearly all the time. Do they become jaded? Do they learn to assume that everyone lies to them? I assume that’s what happens, but it’s very sad. Imagine how they must carry that home with them. I pity them, and also their families. For me, putting up with lies like that would drive the joy out of life.

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Originally Posted by frayedends

I agree, but if the cop thinks you have been drinking you are losing your driving privileges regardless. The key is to not give them any additional evidence. You will be better off in the long run if you don't get convicted. If you say you were drinking any amount or fail a sobriety test, you are getting convicted.

Now in my current adulthood status I would say that if you take a sobriety test there is no way you will pass. I feel now that if you have to take that test you are all but already convicted. HOWEVER, as a young adult, leaving Hampton Beach NH, I was pulled over, took the field sobriety test and passed. I was drunk but not hammered, maybe 4 or 5 beers over 2.5 hours. The officer estimated me at 0.6 or something. But who knows, maybe it was my white priviledge.

At .6 you would be dead think you meant .06 two hundredths below the current legal limit.

[daca55]

All these statics are all good info but at my age I will keep drinking because when I wake up in the morning that is not the best I want to feel all day🥃🥃

[Dusty_Star]

Originally Posted by Laker14

I am guessing you didn't live on a college campus in the 60s or 70s.

Right you are. The comment you are replying to made me raise an eyebrow & think wow, that would be something.

[JWGifford]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

You are right. Sometimes when I read about these DUIs, I consider that cops are hearing these supposedly honest Americans lying to them nearly all the time. Do they become jaded? Do they learn to assume that everyone lies to them? I assume that’s what happens, but it’s very sad. Imagine how they must carry that home with them. I pity them, and also their families. For me, putting up with lies like that would drive the joy out of life.

You’re correct. I once had a friend whose husband was a LEO. I recall her saying “you and I have no comprehension of the types of people my husband deals with every single day”. He was very stoic.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by JWGifford

You’re correct. I once had a friend whose husband was a LEO. I recall her saying “you and I have no comprehension of the types of people my husband deals with every single day”. He was very stoic.

Kinda like a school principal!

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Laker14

I am guessing you didn't live on a college campus in the 60s or 70s.

No I had to work for living? Imagine that.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by daca55

All these statics are all good info but at my age I will keep drinking because when I wake up in the morning that is not the best I want to feel all day🥃🥃

Agree, at our age we are lucky to wake up the next morning

[maggie1]

Originally Posted by paqdkq

In reading THE VILLAGES NEWS there always is an article about people being pulled over for a DUI. When asked how many drinks they have, the answer is around 2. If it takes only 2 drinks to be pulled over, maybe should consider not drinking. I know those people would not lie about how many drinks they have consumed. RIGHT.

Well, he probably wasn't lying, but he neglected to tell the officer they were serving his beer in gallon buckets.

[justjim]

Originally Posted by paqdkq

In reading THE VILLAGES NEWS there always is an article about people being pulled over for a DUI. When asked how many drinks they have, the answer is around 2. If it takes only 2 drinks to be pulled over, maybe should consider not drinking. I know those people would not lie about how many drinks they have consumed. RIGHT.

All you have to do is spend a little time at the square bars (or even at the entertainment on the squares) to see that some people should not drink at all. “You can’t stay young forever but you can be immature for the rest of your life”. Anonymous

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by frayedends

HOWEVER, as a young adult, leaving Hampton Beach NH, I was pulled over, took the field sobriety test and passed. I was drunk but not hammered, maybe 4 or 5 beers over 2.5 hours. The officer estimated me at 0.6 or something. But who knows, maybe it was my white priviledge.

Back in the day a couple close friends got into trouble at Hampton Beach for open containers of alcohol (beer cans). The cop looked at their licenses and told the other cop they were from North Hampton and the other cop said to let them go with a warning. The first cop said, they are from Northampton, MA, not New Hampshire, so they threw them in jail. It goes to show that it was all about raising revenue from outsiders. I had to empty my bank account and drive to New Hampshire to bail my buddies out. So much for New Hampshires state motto, “Live free or Die”.