The blood/urine/breath samples come AFTER the arrest. At least where I live, blood needs a warrant, which they aren’t getting without enough ‘evidence’ to convince a judge. Hence the roadside sobriety tests. They can take a breath sample because the law requires that you give one if you have a driver’s license (it’s part of all the legal paperwork you sign when you get one), but you can’t really force someone to give a breath sample because it’s not a simple thing.

The breathalyzer and blood are definitive tests, but they aren’t needed for the arrest or the conviction. A cop that I know said the best cases were the ones where he stood a driver in front of his car’s camera for about five seconds and you can see them visibly fall over or stumble while just trying to stand there. Criminal cases are always about convincing a jury, and that means that ‘evidence’ like a car swerving on the highway, the smell of alcoholic beverages, the field sobriety tests, the general appearance or manner of the driver, the statements made, etc., all matter.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uqo5RYOp4nQ

They explain it better than I can.

Were they acting out of character though? Because from the time they were in the car until the scene pictured, they seemed pretty consistent to me. You could make the argument they were influenced all the way back at the beginning of the movie, but I always was pretty horrified (exaggeration, but general feeling) and on chihiro’s side as soon as the car stopped. The desire of her parents to walk through the tunnel and continue on always seemed weird. I like planned adventures, not to have an impromptu stop while moving. We can have fun and explore once the absolutely critical task is done, goddamnit! I will not succumb in fiction to what I do in real life!

The cop will have one more piece of evidence to arrest you on. No dwi is made solely on you failing a single test, the judge would laugh their ass off for that. But when you tell one, “he was swerving across multiple lanes, smelled of alcoholic beverages, couldn’t say the alphabet starting at e and ending at t, had XXX nystagmus (there’s like three types they check for), did PZY clues on the walk and turn test, and admitted he had been at the bar an ‘hour or so ago,’” they suddenly have a very different conception of what failing to remember the alphabet means.

Remember, don’t answer any questions on a traffic stop, kiddos. It’s always shut the fuck up friday. ALSO, fuck people who drive drunk, but mostly don’t give cops the time of day if they ask, much less any other info.

I would hope the ‘neutral word’ was said at the same volume/rate/tone. Otherwise, yeah, it would definitely be a factor. Just like we can make ourselves angry with our thoughts, there must be a large difference in adrenaline released depending on how you emote.

I think I’d go with the moths. Least likely to kill me.

I think that should just be the navy way of doing things. Take all involved, up to cocksucker in chief himself, and just drop them in the middle of the arctic.

What about cute animal killers?

Oh, cool that’s the one where they joke about the water being scared of the mammoth, so they put ‘walls’ on the boat to prevent it from being seen and therefore the boat floats instead of sinks?

Free guns, everybody! Anybody know how the weapons are actually handled? Is there a central point where they show up to each day and are given a gun, or do they keep them on them at all times?

Those have always been a weird thing to me. Like, yeah, I definitely enjoy simulating the fantasy life, but there’s something to the being life or death, and being stuck in it, that makes those actually work. If it wasn’t a forced thing, they’d just be generic and boring. The recent one, shangri-la frontier, kind of fails to engage me (I mean to say, I enjoy it, but verisimilitude is broken) simply because it’s so forward about the main character(s) having plot armor, and it partly has to be so forward about it because the characters aren’t stuck in the world, so there’s no explaining away things like sword art online did by having all the characters be ‘equal’ in terms of time played.

I don’t know. I may not have liked all of the stuff he did, but the larry the cable guy bit had some good ones, and foxworthy’s bit about drug side effects was well done.

Unabashedly one of my favorite songs.

That reminds me that I actually do need to go get more lotion.

The humorous bit to me is I have never even been tempted to stealth arch. I just started flaming people to death from level one and never stop. Why, yes, I will kill alduin with double handed flames, thank you very much!

You’ll take my beautiful ceramic away from me after my last dying breath, villain!

Pffft, how I know I’m an adult:

• I gained 20 lbs, bucked the fuck up and lost it in 4 months
• I sleep, refreshed because I actually get my full night’s worth in, and go have fun
• My back, knees, elbows, feet, and hands hurt, because I overuse them, so I go get in the bath and soak the aches away and get up and out ready to do some more
• Comfort has always been more important than style
• Spatulas are so last year; I’m getting nerdy about my glass tupperware stuff
• Chores are for bores… ah fuck, I can’t twist this one
• College students are fun to talk to, and easy to push into certain conversation flows that get them out of my hair
• Life is good; go get a hobby that you actually enjoy

Aw, that makes me sad that I never got that. We just had the example in our textbook be a cop at a tollway.

Lol, wikipedia in regards to math is always fucky. I love statistics and calculus, and I still struggle through their pages.

Simply follow the big money. He’s got more net worth now than when he said he would start donating.