Posted by:
smirkorama
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Date: May 12, 2017 08:01PM
I have NEVER driven while drunk/ intoxicated. Not even close.
HOWEVER, I have had the experience of being arrested for DUI in Utah.
Let me illuminate my experience for anyone who might be interested.
My preliminary Blood test taken after I was arrested showed nothing, as in NO unusual chemicals in my blood stream.
The full on laboratory test for intoxicants in my blood and urine samples came back ALL ZEROS way past the decimal point, ALL ZEROS !!! just as those tests should have indicated because I had not used any intoxicants. I am not a drinker, I am not a drug user. That said, I was still VERY worried that the tests would come back falsified and dirty, because I have had previous experience with the legal system and I know FIRST HAND just how dirty, crooked, corrupt, and completely self serving and subjective that the legal system really can be.
IN addition to my own dismal first hand experiences with the legal system, in a larger picture I would like to point out that Utah is the State where the UHP trooper in charge of DUI apprehension training for the entire state of Utah was arrested for DUI WHILE ON DUTY. It was well known in law enforcement circles That UHP officer was regularly intoxicated while on duty. A Draper city police officer finally got fed up with that situation and arrested that POS UHP officer after the UHP officer had banged up his UHP cruiser because he was DUI. Also the award winning top UHP officer for DUI arrests was later busted and fired for falsifying reports. Utah is also the state where a state crime lab expert shot and killed himself on the job while handling an evidence firearm. I do n't trust those people!!!!
It normally takes 2 weeks to get lab results processed. My tests took twice that long to come back. I know that because I monitored the process as closely as I could. I am guessing that the tests came back completely NEGATIVE, so the UHP decided to run them again to be certain, so the back up run took twice as long while I was left hanging wondering what the tests would indicate when they came back. The entire time, I was very nervous, because I do NOT trust the legal system.
Full disclosure, I was pulled over because I improperly used the HOV lane. All of the regular lanes had been taken up by very slow moving cars, Including some dumb ass in a bold green early 80's Nissan pick up who was going 50 mph and decided that he needed to use left hand lane in front of me. I made the mistake of using the HOV lane to pass him. That upset the UHP officer behind me. That officer pulled me over. That officer was a total jerk. He wanted to know exactly where I was going. I told him the name of the town where I was headed. He wanted/ DEMANDED to know why I was going there and what the exact location was of my final destination. I added that I was going to meet some friends there.
He demanded an exact address of my final destination and wanted to know more about why I was going there. I told him that we were going to watch NFL football, but that was not enough explanation for him. He demanded to know much much more about why I was going there.
For me, that was way too much like having to get permission to go some place and do somethings wth others, which is a violation of my first amendment rights as in freedom of association. I told him that an detailed explanation of why I was going someplace /anywhere was not necessary for him to do his job. WHO my friends are, what their address is, and why I am going to meet them is really none of his business. He already had my Drivers license, my registration, my proof of insurance, and he should be aware of current location on his own, besides the fact that he can tap the state data base to verify any documents that I had already readily given to him JUST AS HE HAD REQUESTED THEM which was EVERYTHING that is required for him to do his mighty law enforcement job.
Then he asked me why I was being so belligerent. I thought that was a very ironic comment coming from some one who was wearing a gun and DEMANDING to know very fine details about what I was doing ( which was already blatantly apparent -driving down the road), where I was going, and what my motivations were.
I am very sensitive about that kind of interrogation for a number of reasons. Besides it being abusive and violation of my rights, I also recognize it as a page right out of the MORmON cult's hand book of heavy handed dealing with people. Its the very same thing that is going on when a MORmON priestDUD leader hopes to elicit/coerce an admission/ confession from a member as they ask: QUOTE is there any issue or concern that you still have that needs to be resolved with a priesthood leader. UNQUOTE It is fishing for something. It is also the kind of control administered by the Nazi's ala ( thick German accent) "Can vee see your papers please, your papers please!"
I very calmly and matter of fact told the officer that I was not being belligerent, that I had promptly and respectfully done everything that I was legally required to do for him, everything that was needed for him to do his job, and that IF anyone was being belligerent then it was him by making demands beyond those legal requirements. The fact of the matter was that he was very upset that I was not scared of him and his mighty badge as he tried to intimidate me. He was upset that I was not kissing his LEO ass. ......you might know the type.
He called another officer to do a field sobriety test. He told that officer that I must be DUI because I was not just spilling my guts about exactly where I was going and what I was doing. He also indicated to the second officer that I was slurring my words, which simply was NOT true. Apparently, any word of discord is automatically a slurred word, as needed for justification, in a power hungry cop's mind. Just another indication of how easily that even mighty LEOs can manufacture "facts" to support whatever they want in any given moment. Funny thing, when the second officer was done with the Field Sobriety Test, he concluded that I must be DUI !!!
Don't worry!!! The Fun is only just beginning. IF I am DUI it must be because I am a drug user, and IF I am a drug user then I must have drugs in my car, SO now officers Dumb Ass and Dumber Ass have to search my car ......TO FIND THE DRUGS THAT I MUST HAVE BEEN USING !!!!!
I get to wait while being in handcuffs, which for me with broad shoulders and relatively short arms is VERY UNCOMFORTABLE.
This is actually funny. In my entire life, I have only put laundry detergent in a plastic bag once. I did it to facilitate .......wait for it ! WAIT FOR IT!!! (CREEPY MUSIC FLOURISH!!! DUNT DUNT DUNNNNNNNN!!! ) DOING LAUNDRY with out having to take along the great big box of laundry detergent. I did that just a few weeks before getting pulled over in this particular instance. That zip lock plastic bag with some laundry detergent in it just happens to be in my van when overly eager UHP officers DUMB ASS and DUMBER ASS are searching my van for the drugs that I must be hiding in my van.
These stupid ass cops just go insane over the zip lock bag of laundry detergent. NO WONDER I DID NOT WANT TO GIVE THEM THE ADDRESS OF MY FRIEND'S PLACE, ALL OF USE ARE DRUG USERS, AND I WAS GOING THERE TO DELIVER DRUGS and HAVE A DRUG FUELED BLOW OUT !!!!!
Now they are making all kinds of WILD, RABID inquiries and conjecture about what is in the zip lock bag.
I can not even begin to go into detail about how god damn stupid these cops really were over this bag of what was really laundry detergent. I am just going to wrap it up by saying STUPID FUCKING CRY BABY ASSHOLES !!!! And then they wonder why people do not want to talk to them ABOUT ANYTHING !!!!
Just the process of my arrest took nearly 8 hours before I could finally have the relief of being booked into jail. Much of that time was spent with my arms handcuffed behind me while jammed into the back seat of a cop car, which is very uncomfortable .....and I get it, the cops think that is really funny.
This is insane, At one point in the arrest process, the arresting officer asked for permission to interview me, AS IF they had not already been conducting some kind of terrorist INQUISITION. I said "about what?" He said: "it is standard procedure for gathering information, things like where you have been and what you have been doing prior to your DUI arrest."
I said: "WHAT is the point? You guys would not believe me when I told you, that I am not impaired, that I have not been doing drugs, That I did not have drugs in my car (and you are pissed that I would not tell you exactly where I was going) .....but NOW all of sudden you are going to believe me and my responses as truthful and accurate when you ask me where I have been !!!"
I am as white bread, clean cut, drug free (zero tats, Zero body piercings) as anyone could possibly be ....and I HATE the police! I have been arrested 6 times and booked into jail 5 times and it was NEVER justified!!!! I would probably die before I would call the cops because I just do not have any respect for them any more and I do NOT trust them.
Police LIE all of the time. LYING to coerce or trick confessions out of people is one of their favorite tactics, and they do it SO MUCH that they are stuck in that mode to the extent that when they do stumble onto an innocent person that they suspect of WHATEVER then they just throw on the pressure anyway. The cops are hoping to fish something out of the "suspect" in order to make the big bust score of the day or the week or the month or the year. The problem is compounded by the fact that busting drunk drivers and drug runners is a big time sweep stakes gala bonanza for law enforcement. They keep stats,well except for the number of false arrests, and those with the best/ highest numbers are rewarded.
Here I am stuck in the middle. I do not want to be hit by a drunk driver AND I do not want to be arrested for DUI when I am not DUI either.
Yah, I get it. I have to have a DL, a vehicle registration, and insurance. Fine! But just as much, as an American I should NOT have to get permission from big brother to go anywhere for what ever reason, or have to deal out superfluous intimate information on demand by LAW enforcement or face being arrested .....but it just so happens that is exactly how officers are being trained to question people that they routinely encounter, and I DO NOT LIKE IT !!!
.....I saw Shauna at the grocery store about two weeks ago. It was on the weekend, Saturday about midnight. I did not know who it was at first. The thing that caught my attention was a couple making out in the produce section. They were really into each other and really going at it, really enjoying each other.
When they finally un twined for a second, I finally saw their faces, even though I was actually trying to ignore them more than anything else. She was visibly aroused, It was him that actually broke things up, then she was looking/ checking around to see if any of the public had noticed their rather provocative PDA. I thought: " hmmm I actually know who that is !" and "well, that was interesting"
The (very attractive) woman that I saw in the grocery store the other night was very intent on having a good time and not concentrating much on consequences at the time ......for what ever reason! ....maybe Officer Shelby and /or officer Brown could interview/ interrogate her to try to find out why!!! I certainly hope that the officer(s) that arrested Shauna happened to be more civil than the two absolute brainless @$$holes that I had to deal with, and that the arrest ordeal took a lot less than 8 (AGONIZING) hours.
I certainly do not approve of Drunk Driving, thank goodness there was no accident involved. Just as much, after my own nasty DUI arrest experience, I hope for the best for Shauna.