breathalyzer test

cena

Every time i'm around athlone area and the guards are out I get asked to do the breathalyzer test. Now I don't mind doing it as I don't drink but it gets annoying.

I look young for my age so this maybe the reason I get asked to do it.

does this happen to anyone else.

Lalaloca

It's not you. It's them.

Stheno

Yes anytime my partner or I pass a traffic stop checking for alcohol consumption we have to take the test.

Doesn't matter the time or day, it has to be done.

He's in his forties and I'm in my thirties.

cena

You think they should be used to you passing the test after a few times.

Tigger

i have no issue testing its the fact they let people through wioth no test and that they profile

in dublin at christmas i was at a checkpoint where they did every one and all the "caught cars" were 10's or 11's

i blew in the thingy thanked the nice man and said i hope you got good overtime for this (stephens day)

hondasam

cena wrote: »

Every time i'm around athlone area and the guards are out I get asked to do the breathalyzer test. Now I don't mind doing it as I don't drink but it gets annoying.

I look young for my age so this maybe the reason I get asked to do it.

does this happen to anyone else.

These are Mandatory alcohol testing checkpoints, they test most drivers or a selection of drivers.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=mandatory%20alcohol%20testing%20checkpoints&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizensinformation.ie%2Fpl%2Ftravel_and_recreation%2Fmotoring_1%2Fdriving_offences%2Fdrink_driving_offences_in_ireland.html&ei=eZDnT4u6J4uDhQethsjPCQ&usg=AFQjCNG6lOeMuhqm70TGf5w3P33t6sLjaQ

Tigger wrote: »

i blew in the thingy thanked the nice man and said i hope you got good overtime for this (stephens day)

Did the nice man tell you it's not o/t just part of his working week?

cena

Tigger wrote: »

i have no issue testing its the fact they let people through wioth no test and that they profile

in dublin at christmas i was at a checkpoint where they did every one and all the "caught cars" were 10's or 11's

i blew in the thingy thanked the nice man and said i hope you got good overtime for this (stephens day)

All the cars that where behide me today where let go. just checked the person driving and let them off and I get stopped everytime.

CiniO

There definitely should be more of those checkpoints.
Over last 5 years, and over 250,000km on Irish roads, I encountered the alcohol checkpoint only once.

Over my visit to Poland over last Christmas, during 5 weeks and about 6,000km driven there, I encountered 3 alcohol checkpoints.

hondasam

CiniO wrote: »

There definitely should be more of those checkpoints.
Over last 5 years, and over 250,000km on Irish roads, I encountered the alcohol checkpoint only once.

Over my visit to Poland over last Christmas, during 5 weeks and about 6,000km driven there, I encountered 3 alcohol checkpoints.

I see at least three of these every week, get stopped at 7am some mornings, I work shift so im on the road at weird times.

sydthebeat

Been driving for eleven years, I do approx 65k kms per year and have never once been breath tested.

Diego Maradona

hondasam wrote: »

These are Mandatory alcohol testing checkpoints, they test most drivers or a selection of drivers.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=mandatory%20alcohol%20testing%20checkpoints&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizensinformation.ie%2Fpl%2Ftravel_and_recreation%2Fmotoring_1%2Fdriving_offences%2Fdrink_driving_offences_in_ireland.html&ei=eZDnT4u6J4uDhQethsjPCQ&usg=AFQjCNG6lOeMuhqm70TGf5w3P33t6sLjaQ




Did the nice man tell you it's not o/t just part of his working week?

St Stephen's day is a bank holiday so of course the nice man was getting OT/extra pay.

hondasam

Diego Maradona wrote: »

St Stephen's day is a bank holiday so of course the nice man was getting OT/extra pay.

It is a bank holiday, extra pay yes but not O/T.

djimi

I used to see breathtesting checkpoints quite a bit (one a month maybe) but I dont think Ive come across one in a couple of years now. And I live in the middle of a town so one would think that they would be a regular occurance.

Personally its one thing I have absolutely no problem with. Its a 60 second inconvenience at most, and if it means they take the drunk off the road who might otherwise kill me then its an inconvenience that I would gladly suffer on a weekly basis.

Also in terms of who they actually test, Im sure they have a good idea once you roll down the window whether or not you are worth testing! From my experience it seems to be a fairly random selection.

ShadowHearth

I think op is on about him being tested all the time and not others.
Garda profiling poeple and op is always in that profile which needs to be checked.
What sort of car you drive op? How old are you? Bold?

cena

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I think op is on about him being tested all the time and not others.
Garda profiling poeple and op is always in that profile which needs to be checked.
What sort of car you drive op? How old are you? Bold?

In my late 20s. Not bold at all. Drive a 1.2 car. Not a sports car or the kind boy racers use

The Real B-man

Happens to me all the time they are just doing there Job one thing that annoys me is they always give me the Tube as a "Present" :rolleyes:

blingrhino

im driving 24 years, approx 20000 km a year and never been breathilized

Yeboah

blingrhino wrote: »

im driving 24 years, approx 20000 km a year and never been breathilized

was stopped one night driving late through a town before mandatory checkpoints but never stopped since, although still sh*t myself some mornings when i see a hi vis jacket up ahead..im very paranoid about getting caught in the morning going to work..would be a sickner

CiniO

djimi wrote: »

Personally its one thing I have absolutely no problem with. Its a 60 second inconvenience at most, and if it means they take the drunk off the road who might otherwise kill me then its an inconvenience that I would gladly suffer on a weekly basis.

Also in terms of who they actually test, Im sure they have a good idea once you roll down the window whether or not you are worth testing! From my experience it seems to be a fairly random selection.

Do they still have those old-style brethylisers where they give you your own mount tube, attach it to device, blow for something like 10 seconds and then wait for result?

I've seen checkpoints, where policeman is standing in the middle of the road stopping every single car. You just open the window, he puts the device approx 2 inches away from your mouth, and you have to blow for about 2 seconds. All takes between 5 to 10 seconds per car. But that wasn't in Ireland.

keithclancy

Driven over 160,000 km here in NL and Germany and have never been breathalysed.

Stopped twice at the border during that time by Customs for a checkpoint

Mr Simpson

TBH I don't think there are enough of them, I do about 500km per week with a good bit of that at night, and I have only once encountered a MAT checkpoint, outside Electric Picnic

Mr Simpson

CiniO wrote: »

Do they still have those old-style brethylisers where they give you your own mount tube, attach it to device, blow for something like 10 seconds and then wait for result?

I've seen checkpoints, where policeman is standing in the middle of the road stopping every single car. You just open the window, he puts the device approx 2 inches away from your mouth, and you have to blow for about 2 seconds. All takes between 5 to 10 seconds per car. But that wasn't in Ireland.

The breathalyzers are digital, with disposable tubes, results in seconds.

CiniO

mmcn90 wrote: »

The breathalyzers are digital, with disposable tubes, results in seconds.

If that's the one I was once brethylised outside Galway, then it's a matter of unpacking the tube from plastic cover. Then attaching it to the device. Blowing for about 5 to 10 seconds. And then waiting another 5 to 10 seconds for result.
In total from the moment I was stopped to the moment I kept going it was about 30 to 40 seconds.
Other one I was saying about takes only about 5 to max 10 seconds for the whole procedure. It makes a lots of difference if they want to brethylise everyone on the road at checkpoint.

Mr Simpson

I wouldnt want to be using the same tube as the motorist before me.

CiniO

mmcn90 wrote: »

I wouldnt want to be using the same tube as the motorist before me.

Me either.
But:

CiniO wrote: »

I've seen checkpoints, where policeman is standing in the middle of the road stopping every single car. You just open the window, he puts the device approx 2 inches away from your mouth, and you have to blow for about 2 seconds. All takes between 5 to 10 seconds per car. But that wasn't in Ireland.

You don't need to touch anything. Just blow into the air towards the device.

Mr Simpson

Completely missed that I've never seen them, seem like a good idea.

hondasam

mmcn90 wrote: »

I wouldnt want to be using the same tube as the motorist before me.

You don't it's a new one for every motorist.

Mr Simpson

hondasam wrote: »

mmcn90 wrote: »

I wouldnt want to be using the same tube as the motorist before me.

You don't it's a new one for every motorist.

I was referring to cinio's post, but the one he was talking about doesn't even have a tube.