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BlackBerry users no longer will be able to pinpoint police drunken-driving checkpoints.

Following a request Tuesday from four Democratic senators, Ontario, Canada-based Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, has agreed to pull from its online store downloadable applications that allow its operating systems to identify the locations of local police DUI checkpoints.

Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada, Charles Schumer of New York, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Tom Udall of New Mexico asked RIM, Apple and Google to disable or stop selling the apps for BlackBerry, iPhone and iPad, and Android devices.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/201 ... 4_ST_N.htm

At least in Alexandria and Fairfax, police are required to announce drunk-driving locations beforehand. So just check your local jurisdictions website. Or get on their e-mail blast (Alexandria even sends out their tallies after a checkpoint ). or better yet...don't drive drunk.

Sounds like a bunch of old, rich, white men couldn't figure out how to work 'them new-fangeled Blueberry thingy's' and didn't want the Commoner's ta have an unfair advantage....

Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

andy7171 wrote:Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

Twice, but I think it's been about 6 or 7 years since the last one. I hadn't been drinking a drop and I was still nervous as shit.

andy7171 wrote:Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

Closing your eyes and flooring it past the checkpoint doesn't count as not ever seeing one.

andy7171 wrote:Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

I went through two in the same weekend. My parents were with me visiting for the weekend, and we were all stone sober. Still got a bit nervous for some reason maybe it was the body in the trunk.

BTW, there are still quite a few DUI apps on the Droid market. Does BB have their own app market?

how long before there is a breathalyzer app?

seems like a dead useful thing

bandl wrote:

andy7171 wrote:Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

Twice, but I think it's been about 6 or 7 years since the last one. I hadn't been drinking a drop and I was still nervous as shit.

Two kilos of blow in the trunk will do that to you.

Grizalltheway wrote:

bandl wrote: Twice, but I think it's been about 6 or 7 years since the last one. I hadn't been drinking a drop and I was still nervous as shit.

Two kilos of blow in the trunk will do that to you.

They don't check for drugs, or alcohol. Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............

bandl wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Two kilos of blow in the trunk will do that to you.

They don't check for drugs, or alcohol. Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............

Okay, having that and being stoned off your ass...

Grizalltheway wrote:

bandl wrote: They don't check for drugs, or alcohol. Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............

Okay, having that and being stoned off your ass...

Well, that was a fail on my part, huh? 'or' should have been 'only'. Kinda really changes the whole perspective, doesn't it?

Fuck this place, I'm outta here.

Take Travis with you, mmk?

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:how long before there is a breathalyzer app?

seems like a dead useful thing

I thought I read somewhere that there is one.

HI54UNI wrote:

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:how long before there is a breathalyzer app?

seems like a dead useful thing

I thought I read somewhere that there is one.

There probably is.

Hell, I have a ghost radar on my phone. Apparently my house is haunted a fuck.

Went through a DUI checkpoint on the PCH in Malibu on Saturday night. I'd had 6 beers at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company....they waved me right through.

WTF?

AZGrizFan wrote:Went through a DUI checkpoint on the PCH in Malibu on Saturday night. I'd had 6 beers at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company....they waved me right through.

WTF?

wrong age/color

andy7171 wrote:Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

Yes. Trooper asked me if I had been drinking. I replied yes, a couple of beers. At that point I had to pass a field test and blow into three different intoxilators before they were convinced that I wasn't drunk. After all the hassle, I blew an .01.

AshevilleApp wrote:blow into three different intoxilators...

I think I would have stopped at one and told them to go eff themselves.

89Hen wrote:

AshevilleApp wrote:blow into three different intoxilators...

I think I would have stopped at one and told them to go eff themselves.

I probably should have.

AshevilleApp wrote:

andy7171 wrote:Has anyone ever gone through a checkpoint? I've never seen one, ever.

Yes. Trooper asked me if I had been drinking. I replied yes, a couple of beers. At that point I had to pass a field test and blow into three different intoxilators before they were convinced that I wasn't drunk. After all the hassle, I blew an .01.

I'd rather just take the breathalyzer than dance around on the roadside like some trained bear/sideshow freak.

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:Went through a DUI checkpoint on the PCH in Malibu on Saturday night. I'd had 6 beers at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company....they waved me right through.

WTF?

wrong age/color

Bingo!

I've been through one. Was waved through as well. A shame for the onsite officers since I didn't have a driver's license, was driving on a suspended license for DWI and had 6 bench warrants for my arrest for FTA....thank god I'm white...

ASUG8 wrote:

AshevilleApp wrote:

Yes. Trooper asked me if I had been drinking. I replied yes, a couple of beers. At that point I had to pass a field test and blow into three different intoxilators before they were convinced that I wasn't drunk. After all the hassle, I blew an .01.

I'd rather just take the breathalyzer than dance around on the roadside like some trained bear/sideshow freak.

Agree...and the breathylizer on the side of the road tells you whether you actually want to blow on the one at the magistrates or deal without a license for one year....

I've never been through a checkpoint, but I did get pulled over for speeding after a night of some pretty heavy drinking in Virginia. The state cop pulled me over about a half mile before my exit into the range side at Quantico (ungated at the time, which was the only reason I even thought about driving). I pulled out my driver license and my military ID and he told me to slow it down and have a nice night. Whew. Career-ending incident narrowly avoided.