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| matt.h |
with the amount of alcohol in mouthwash, timtams, alcoholic icecreams etc...i don't think the breathalysers that the cops carry are anywhere near sensitive enough to pick up those slight traces of alcohol in your breath.
i've eaten timtams and been breathalysed about 2hrs later (had about 4, don't know how long that lasts in your body)...told the cops that when he came to my window and he said it'd be fine. one big breath and i was let off and on my way. |
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| G`Dave |
We don't have any speed limits for P's (other than the normal ones, would be cool if there were none at all for P's :stongue: )
0.00 BAC or loss of licence.
Piss all demrit points.
And you have it for 3 years... I don't think I've missed anything
(Oh yeah.. and there's restriction on the power to weight ratio for the car you drive.. ie. nothing to powerful.) |
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| NiNo LoCo |
| quote: | Originally posted by matt.h
with the amount of alcohol in mouthwash, timtams, alcoholic icecreams etc...i don't think the breathalysers that the cops carry are anywhere near sensitive enough to pick up those slight traces of alcohol in your breath.
i've eaten timtams and been breathalysed about 2hrs later (had about 4, don't know how long that lasts in your body)...told the cops that when he came to my window and he said it'd be fine. one big breath and i was let off and on my way. |
The breathalyers are new, like they just finished doing the beta testing kind of thing..
Its being introduced slowly, it was in channel 10 news. |
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| matt.h |
even if these new high-tech breathalysers detect the trace amounts of alcohol in your system from mouthwash/biscuits/dessert, the more detailed examination down at the copshop will prove your innocence and you'll receive (or atleast you should) a polite word of apology from the coppers for wasting your valuable time :)
btw, these breathalysers you refer to passed through the testing phase quite a while back (before easter), but aren't in use. they are waiting to be gazetted by your state parliament, which views it as a low priority. |
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| NiNo LoCo |
| quote: | Originally posted by matt.h
even if these new high-tech breathalysers detect the trace amounts of alcohol in your system from mouthwash/biscuits/dessert, the more detailed examination down at the copshop will prove your innocence and you'll receive (or atleast you should) a polite word of apology from the coppers for wasting your valuable time :)
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Well myself and other p drivers received letters from the RTA stating about mouth wash etc. you might be lucky and cops let you off but it stated that you have to prove to the court on why you are over the limit of 0.00
so yes its more of wasting your bloody time but yeh... kind sux |
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| G`Dave |
The breathalysers we have now work fine.. they can tell if you've been drinking..
The only reason I can think of for the government wanting more sensitive ones would be so they can book you for eating a tim tam and hence make a bit more money out of ya.
There's no reason I can think of other than that. But I'm a cynical prick who hates the state government. |
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| Psygnosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by NiNo LoCo
The breathalyers are new, like they just finished doing the beta testing kind of thing..
Its being introduced slowly, it was in channel 10 news. |
Yeah, wasn't it a breathaliser that would give out different colours in depending on the drugs you had taken and stuff?
very freaky! |
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| matt.h |
the ones purchased by the NSW police are more high-tech in the sense that it has in-built memory and satellite communications capabilities. this is to stop police from 'cheating', inflating the number of drivers they have breathalysed (to meet quotas, much like parking inspectors).
at the moment, its all recorded by hand, then (i assume) entered into the computer once they get back to the station. these new gizmos will record every test, what BAC was recorded, and allow the memory to be 'downloaded' for auditing.
can just imagine it now, coppers sitting in their cars blowing into it to falsify the data and meet their quota (2003 was 2 million tests i believe). |
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