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2004-02-18

New Mexico House passes âbreathalyzer in every carâ bill

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Posted by Dar 2004-02-18 3:10:08 PM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fourth Amendment? What Fourth Amendment?

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-18 3:19:51 PM|| 2004-2-18 3:19:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Soon, every car in New Mexico will be registered in Texas, Arizona, or Colorado. There will be booming business in rental mail boxes along the borders, as well as mail-forwarding services.

At the least, they'll never see another rental car or truck registered in their state again.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-18 3:24:13 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-2-18 3:24:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I propose all legislators must undergo a breathalyzer test before writing any legislation. Lie detector and sanity tests must also be mandatory.

Posted by ed 2004-2-18 4:12:45 PM|| 2004-2-18 4:12:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 ed - the country would come to a standstill. But I like it!

Posted by B 2004-2-18 4:24:50 PM|| 2004-2-18 4:24:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wouldn't an inflatable babe work? Just curious, I like science.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-18 4:29:38 PM|| 2004-2-18 4:29:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 But New Mexicos roads will finally be safe from Ted kennedy. Seiously DUIs are a serrious problem and nothing to joke about. Just ask someone who has been tagged or is married to someones who has. The fines are nothing compared to the job the insurance companies do on you. But at the same time if you are out and have had one or two too many all too often it is impossible to get a cab or a ride.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-2-18 4:30:14 PM|| 2004-2-18 4:30:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 If this makes it into law and past the usual challenges (perfect for the ACLU, I should think), there will be technical work-arounds available immediately. First, there is the designated blower. The machine will never be canny enough to determine who is behind the wheel and who just blew into the machine. Then there is the possibility of using stored air via a tank and regulator. The bypassing of the device will be a hacker's paradise, with PROM chips available immediately. And so on and so forth. And Gov Richardson has a ton of extra $$$ to police this new requirement? I doubt it.

Fuggeddabbouddidd. Ain't gonna happen.

Posted by Rivrdog 2004-2-18 4:56:26 PM|| [http://rivrdog.typepad.com] 2004-2-18 4:56:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Rivrdog -- does New Mexico have mandatory exhaust testing? If so, they'll just add a test of the breathalyzer to that procedure.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-18 5:20:48 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-2-18 5:20:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Hooray more government regulation. Of course you will pay for the device and mainteneance too.

Posted by dataman1 2004-2-18 6:13:40 PM|| 2004-2-18 6:13:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hooray more government regulation. Of course you will pay for the device and mainteneance too.

Posted by dataman1 2004-2-18 6:13:43 PM|| 2004-2-18 6:13:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 If it takes half the driving population of that state off the road, great. New Mexicans are crappy drivers anyway (go any distance on I-10 as proof).

Posted by Pappy 2004-2-18 6:35:03 PM|| 2004-2-18 6:35:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Its even *worse* if you (or someone close to you) get tagged by a drunk/stoned driver out on the road some night.
I have absolutly no compassion for people who drink and drive.
Saying that, this is not the way to do it -- too many ways around it and another inconvience for people who are responsible.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-18 7:56:57 PM|| 2004-2-18 7:56:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 They will probably push this to other states. I consider it a victory that they didn't go for a urinalysis. At least this way my car won't smell funny when my daughter learns to drive.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-18 8:03:45 PM|| 2004-2-18 8:03:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Could be that NM's effort is related to an little encounter I had in Gallup some years ago. I was gassing up the car at a large truckstop on the Interstate when a local, fresh off the Reservation, tried to stick me up... He passed out in mid-threat. I finished and went inside and the woman at the register just laughed and said he was a "regular" and part of the "colorful" scenery of the area. So I paid for the gas and boogied on down the road. When I checked my rear-view mirror getting back on the service road, he was still lying in the driveway... being colorful. Mebbe he drives occassionally, too.

Posted by .com 2004-2-18 9:12:45 PM|| 2004-2-18 9:12:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Good one Dot. Sounds like the perp was a little dehydrated.

I heard a sta-tistp-tpic about how half the traffic accidents involve alcohol. By a mathomatic deduction I found that half the accidents do not involve alcohol. I've also noted that about half the drivers I know do drink. Not that they are drunk and driving as a rule. And those that I've known who have had accidents, due to their own negligence, well I can think of only one. And he was still in high school at the time and it was dead mans corner.

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-19 12:07:57 AM|| 2004-2-19 12:07:57 AM|| Front Page Top

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