DWI....
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From: Gloucester Ontario
Re: DWI.... (GDaina)
George,
It sounds to me like you ran into a couple of cops having a bad day and rubbed them the wrong way. It's not easy to come out ahead in those situations and I sympathize with you. Eighteen years ago I had the opposite experience (in BC, with the 'Mounties'). New to the province, I was returning to the Base from a Christmas party at my CO's house. I'd had a few, but wasn't smart enough not to drive. As I approached the RCMP detachment I saw some flares on the road, what I took to be an ambulance parked at the side of the road (white and orange with flashing lights), and people standing in the centre of the road and on the shoulder. Based on my 'accident' assumption, I just motored on through, and was half way up the long hill just beyond the site when I noticed the car with flashing red and blue lights accelerating in my direction. To make a long story short, the 'accident' was a sobriety checkpoint and the 'ambulance' was what BCers call the 'BATmobile' or blood alcohol testing unit. In 'motoring on through' I had very nearly run over an RCMP officer, who subsequently chased me, stopped me and brought me back to the station for a breathalyzer. I blew .09, which was over the .08 limit. I knew something unusual was going on when he sent the breathalyzer operater away after only the one test. Although clearly upset that I'd almost hit him, officer said that he normally doesn't charge for under .10, but that he would charge me with speeding (I was giving the 305 Malibu police car a good run with my Citation X-11). After writing me out a ticket, he drove me to the Base, and even arranged to have my car towed there from where it had been left on the road! When I told this story to my lawyer ( and mentioned the cop's name, he was incredulous!) The officer in question had a reputation as the most hard-nosed guy in the detachment. My lawyer couldn't believe that I'd gotten such a break, and you can rest assured, I took it as a 'wake-up call'.
I think you were probably in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the company of the wrong police officers, George...
grant
It sounds to me like you ran into a couple of cops having a bad day and rubbed them the wrong way. It's not easy to come out ahead in those situations and I sympathize with you. Eighteen years ago I had the opposite experience (in BC, with the 'Mounties'). New to the province, I was returning to the Base from a Christmas party at my CO's house. I'd had a few, but wasn't smart enough not to drive. As I approached the RCMP detachment I saw some flares on the road, what I took to be an ambulance parked at the side of the road (white and orange with flashing lights), and people standing in the centre of the road and on the shoulder. Based on my 'accident' assumption, I just motored on through, and was half way up the long hill just beyond the site when I noticed the car with flashing red and blue lights accelerating in my direction. To make a long story short, the 'accident' was a sobriety checkpoint and the 'ambulance' was what BCers call the 'BATmobile' or blood alcohol testing unit. In 'motoring on through' I had very nearly run over an RCMP officer, who subsequently chased me, stopped me and brought me back to the station for a breathalyzer. I blew .09, which was over the .08 limit. I knew something unusual was going on when he sent the breathalyzer operater away after only the one test. Although clearly upset that I'd almost hit him, officer said that he normally doesn't charge for under .10, but that he would charge me with speeding (I was giving the 305 Malibu police car a good run with my Citation X-11). After writing me out a ticket, he drove me to the Base, and even arranged to have my car towed there from where it had been left on the road! When I told this story to my lawyer ( and mentioned the cop's name, he was incredulous!) The officer in question had a reputation as the most hard-nosed guy in the detachment. My lawyer couldn't believe that I'd gotten such a break, and you can rest assured, I took it as a 'wake-up call'.
I think you were probably in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the company of the wrong police officers, George...
grant
