So I'm coming home from work, and as I enter downtown proper, there's a RIDE check at 7pm! 6 cops asking people if they've had anything to drink at dinnertime on a Tuesday. It surprised me, as it doesn't really seem like a particularly efficient of police resources. Maybe try again in 3 hours?
RIDE check
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I've been stopped at 7:30 AM.
As in - in the morning.
7:30 a.m. is early if you work for a living, but if you're unemployed and living on pogey, 7:30 is bed time after a night of boozing.
As in - in the morning.
7:30 a.m. is early if you work for a living, but if you're unemployed and living on pogey, 7:30 is bed time after a night of boozing.
Maybe they're trying to reinforce the idea that you can be stopped anytime, anywhere.
Well, I've had more to drink now than I had had at the time, so I guess we both win?
Well, I've had more to drink now than I had had at the time, so I guess we both win?
We must have different ideas of dinner time. I'd think that dinner out with drinks would be from 7 or 8 until 9 or 10
One day I stopped at lights on Lakeshore, under the Gardiner, and on the other side of the intersection was a cop car, guy in the back, and an SUV parked in front of it about to be towed. The cop was walking back to his car with a partly consumed 26er of booze that he took out of the front seat. Time - 10am. I hope the drunken fucker got the book thrown at him.
There's a reason why they do it in the morning. Many people will stay up late boozing until 2-3 a.m. and then they wake up early for work and are still intoxicated. Many people think the effects of alcohol will be ridden from your system after 3 hours of sleep, but depending on how much you consume this is definitely not the case.
There are afternoon drinkers, business drinkers, after work drinkers and it's a solid practise for police to vary RIDE check times and locations.
If you're leaving a casino, don't be shocked if you go through a RIDE check not for alcohol but for fatigue. How long have you been in the casino sir?
If you're leaving a casino, don't be shocked if you go through a RIDE check not for alcohol but for fatigue. How long have you been in the casino sir?
I highly doubt it. RIDE's purpose is to deal with impaired driving offences. Driving while being fatigued is not a criminal offence. (Unless it's a Dangerous driving, but RIDE does not deal with it because RIDEs are stationery and dangerous drivers are usually spotted while driving full speed, not going through a checkpoint).
I got stopped around 2:30 a.m. after they officially finished, but I didn't want to drive thru (no one was manning the post, but their stop sign was there even though they were busy with others that they pulled over).
When I asked for permission like an honest John, she asked me, "Well, we're done but have you had anything to drink", I said "Well, I was at the Rihanna concert". Then she asked, "Did you drink?", and I said, "Yeah, but that was hours ago, yada yada yada" (not true, I had a Manhattan about 40 minutes ago for last call).
She asked me to pull over. I blew twice in the breathalyzer device, and she joked "Sir, that's a high score", and flipped it around to show my 0.00 score. Frankly, I think she was using reverse psychology to guage my reaction as I don't believe that I was 0.00 even though below the limit.
When I asked for permission like an honest John, she asked me, "Well, we're done but have you had anything to drink", I said "Well, I was at the Rihanna concert". Then she asked, "Did you drink?", and I said, "Yeah, but that was hours ago, yada yada yada" (not true, I had a Manhattan about 40 minutes ago for last call).
She asked me to pull over. I blew twice in the breathalyzer device, and she joked "Sir, that's a high score", and flipped it around to show my 0.00 score. Frankly, I think she was using reverse psychology to guage my reaction as I don't believe that I was 0.00 even though below the limit.
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Why would you even say you had anything to drink? Especially if you paid cash, why give them anything to go on?
My view if i have had a drink is that I did not drink anything, I imbibed something.
About two years back I was getting on the 427 south bound from highway 7 where there was a ride check at about 5pm on a Wednesday afternoon.
Its a waste of money at these times due to the fact that the number of people drinking excessively at these times is reduced by a very large margin.
They had one set up today @ DVP & Eglinton just after 1pm today. I guess they were looking for the lunch time stragglers who had a few extra with lunch to beat the heat. After listening to the news earlier the Sgt in charge of that check point today said that he scheduled it from 1-3 but the ended it after 40 mins due to the huge traffic jam they caused. I guess people were losing their tempers in this heat from sitting in the jam only to go through that. To top it off not one person caught.
I thought they only did RIDE checks in during the Christmas/NewYear's holiday period - that is the only time of year I've ever driven through them and been interviewed. They do them all year long? Ok, good to know, though I don't drive drunk so it doesn't really matter to me anyway.
