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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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