BlackBerry Backpedals on DUI Checkpoint Apps

Post by **Appaholic** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:06 am

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

Post by **bandl** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:12 am

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.

Post by **Appaholic** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:16 am

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....

Post by **andy7171** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:37 am

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

Post by **bandl** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:39 am

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.

Post by **grizzaholic** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:40 am

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.

Post by **ASUG8** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:42 am

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.

Post by **bandl** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:46 am

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

Post by **TwinTownBisonFan** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:17 am

how long before there is a breathalyzer app?

seems like a dead useful thing

Post by **Grizalltheway** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:31 am

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.

Post by **bandl** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:33 am

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............

Post by **Grizalltheway** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:36 am

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...

Post by **bandl** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:38 am

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.

Post by **Grizalltheway** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:42 am

Take Travis with you, mmk?

Post by **HI54UNI** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:13 am

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.

Post by **clenz** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:15 am

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.

Post by **AZGrizFan** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:17 am

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?

Post by **TwinTownBisonFan** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:28 am

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

Post by **AshevilleApp** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:51 am

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.

89Hen · Post by **89Hen** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:52 am

AshevilleApp wrote:blow into three different intoxilators...

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

Post by **AshevilleApp** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:56 am

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.

Post by **ASUG8** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:01 am

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.

Post by **Appaholic** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:02 am

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...

Post by **Appaholic** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:03 am

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....

Post by **93henfan** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:12 am

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.

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