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Originally posted by BoatCrazy
"First, I don't believe in BUI. Now, let's level the playing field. You pull me over because my boat is bobing and weaving in the chop and I'm trying to keep it in the channel and I pop the meter, arrest me and I pay through the nose for legal fees etc..... Given the same circumstances and I blow 0.0, you pay to fill my boat with fuel from dead empty."
If the conditions are rough as you described, why would anyone pull you over? Bobbing and weaving when its choppy is pretty normal. I am failing to see your logic. So, if you are stopped, asked to blow, and you blow a 0.0,you are not arrested, you are then going to sue for money because? (Im assuming that based on your "you pay to fill my boat with fuel from dead empty")
Were you sipping something while writing that lol?
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All I'm saying is I'm supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. It's what used to separate the US from the rest of the world.
I've seen these things all too often. They get written by people with no clue who want votes. They get executed by people with no training but get stiff nipples at the idea of unbridled power and get shoved on everybody which makes it impossible to enforce.
The government was designed to move at glacial speeds to preclude what it has become.
I'll give you an example with recoils of Virginia's lack of common sense.
We have a DUI problem in VA says a citizen.
No open (alcohol) container law in any vehicle; PERIOD, says the senate. That will solve our DUI problem...YAY says the citizen!!! HARUMPH says the Senate. That should get us another term in office.
1. UMMMM....Excuse me say the tour bus operators. You're telling me I cannot allow my non driving dead president paying customers to have adult beverages enroute to a Redskins game or a Nationals game. You're going to kill my business. You know....the business that pays taxes.
2. UMMMM....Excuse me say the restaurant owners. You have a law that allows citizens to remove a recorked bottle of wine from my establishment for consumption at a later time. My wine sales are going to go down. Most of the wine I sell is from Virginia. Do the math.
hmmmmm whisper the senators. as long as the driver of the tour bus is not drinking then that's OK. And as long as the recorked bottle is in the car's trunk...That's OK too.
HARUMPH says the Senate. That should get us another term in office.
3. UMMMMMMMMM Excuse me says the citizen who owns only an SUV........I have no trunk..........
ONE YEAR to change the efffed up law that if thought through would have been written correctly the first time.
The logic in filling my boat is there is no ramification to the person making the stop. It is no different than the loser pays rule that exists in British courts. Under the current scenarios in the states, probable cause in roadside checks is a fairy tale. Do you want that on the water?
As far as "sipping something while writing that", I honestly had to go check the time on the post.
But I can tell you that if I had, I would not have been piloting a boat or driving a car.
I, like most conservatives, want the government to do three things. Protect my borders. It's done via a strong military. Design, build and maintain a transportation network to move product. (Note I did not say pay for it) Don't piss in my rivers.
Beyond that, get the farque out of my life.
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