the police are on the ball tonight

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dp has just taken his mum home, and was stopped and breathlised.

aibu to think the police are right to pull over anyone

YANBU.

At midday today on a narrow road some oncoming twat was doing a high wheelie on his motorbike at about forty mph. Could have swerved, come through the windscreen and killed my entire family.

And on that cheery note...

YANBU

my dp got talking to the police, who said the amount of verbal abused they have encountered tonight over stopping cars was really shocking.

i would rather this than the worse happening

the cells on xmas eve.....not a good place to be!

My DP has been stopped every year when he picks up my brother on xmas eve...at least he does not drink!!

Fuck yes they should stop anyone to breathlise them, it's not a grey area, if you've had too much to drink then you've had too much.

5 mins of your time being breathalised won't kill anyone. So think it is a perfectly fair measure.

I fucking hate drink drivers

YANBU. I would LOVE to be breathalysered (sic). I live in Canada and bloody everyone drinks and drives. It is terrible. I have been stopped in the UK, but never here. Good on the Police I say.

Maybe he swerved or went through a light? They normally have reasonable cause to stop someone. Or does his license plate come up as someone with a lot of traffic offences maybe?

Round here, the police do random testing without needing any clues. Good on them I say, My cousin got run over some Christmases ago by a drunk driver who chased him along the pavement for fun and smashed his leg up.
Zero tolerance campaigner, that's me.

Goblin thats shocking! Police test randomly in my area too. I don't mind as long as they don't take too long.

Random testing here in Hungary too. And there is officially zero tolerance. So ANY alcohol in your system will get you done. Unless you get a bribe-able policeman of course which you can do.

A friend was breathalysed at 39 weeks PG here!