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DUIers Beware!



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Crystal Fambrini travels to a DUI checkpoint in Albuquerque, New Mexico to test out the new "Tru-Touch 1100." It's a device that uses infrared light to detect intoxication levels within 60 seconds, eliminating the need for time-consuming and invasive blood, urine or breath tests.
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12 responses // DUIers Beware!

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    Poor, Misunderstood Jack Bauer
    Poor, Misunderstood Jack Bauer
    Wonder if they used one of these on Kiefer Sutherland in one of his 4 DUIs...
    Tori
    • Tori
    • 10 months ago
  • I can't help but be bothered by this pod. I find it patently absurd how the pod is entirely pro-cops. I just can't applaud new technologies used to catch anyone.
    rawbird
  • @rawbird ~ please elaborate. what exactly is the other side of this story? civil liberties? saying you "cant applaud new technologies used to catch anyone" doesn't make sense to me. Are you against the use of DNA evidence in trials? Are you against instant replay in sports?

    If you are against drunk driving laws as being too strict or too restrictive, or if you are against sobriety check-points in general, that is one thing. If you agree with the laws why would you not want to use technology like this to catch people?
    danlevine
  • Dan, I'm generally pro-privacy and see both the roadside random stops and DNA testing as invasive of body and mind--and all the other libertarianisms--like believing in individual agency to be dangerous. Secondly, I am against institutionalized anti-sobriety and think it asinine that a government legalizes and criminalizes certain states of body and mind. And yes, the entire mise-en-scen of this pod burdens the viewer with sympathies for law and order. You inadvertently champion the technologies and procedures that pack the prisons with drinkers. Finally, I can't believe that being pro-police would be a fine idea for a youth orientated network trying to seem multicultural and ethnically diverse (considering the racial discrepancies in all arrests). In this pod Crystal was the cops' patsy and the enemy of the inebriated. Next week let's follow the federal DEA on a state supported medical marijuana bust and see how they use heat sensory guns to detect growing operations!
    rawbird
  • I generally agree that the use of laws and technologies to restrict states of consciousness is wrong and should not happen, however, the case of drunk driving vs. medical marijuana doesn't hold any water in my mind, medical marijuana users are not posing a threat to anyone and are under the same rules in regards to driving under the influence that drunk drivers are, but drunk drivers are severely endangering the lives of others and should be caught and this type of behavior should be minimized. So, to recap, yes to altering your own state and medicating how you need to, and no to inflicting harm and death to unsuspecting victims [and no to the DEA too].
    sarahbelle
  • Oh and one more thing, I am all about getting the inspection over with as soon as possible and minimizing invasiveness, so urine and blood tests=bad, lasers=good.

    The thing that you're asking for rawbird, is another voice in the pod, and what would that look like? People who like to drink and drive, mothers for drunk driving? I think you'd be hard pressed to find that and have people sympathize with it.
    sarahbelle
  • I'm more than happy to be the lone pro-inebriation maverick claiming that all laws devised by governments to protect me from myself are inherently wrong and unconstitutional.
    rawbird
  • Being a native New Mexican I am a bit concerned with this pod because I know it is a problem in NM, but I am sure that if you had random DUI checks using the same technology in most (if not all) states in the country you would realize that this is not a regional problem but a national one. Try putting random DUI checkpoints in Austin TX, where I live now or any major college town and I guarantee you will arrest more drunk drivers coming from downtown 6th St. in one night than you will that same night in all of New Mexico. These checks are giving NM a bad name. Try it somewhere else and you will see its a national crisis.
    jcarlson
  • Another device against human rights. Invasive that is for sure.
    NOTOTHEWALL
  • the guy that said "this is the sound of freedom after 17 beers".... what the hell was he thinking...
    bostongeorge
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    Wonderful work! Drunk driving is such a major problem in New Mexico. We're working on a documentary now that explores these issues. Please check it out. We'd love some feedback.
    dbocaz
  • The only crime here is New Mexico's private prison system turning us in to a military state. Las Vegas has 24 hour drinking and people getting crushed at bus stops everyday almost. New Mexico makes drinking a huge problem because our roadways are inferior and its another way to ruin the lives of Native Americans who have dry reservations and casinos because of this so called problem. I'm sorry but everyone acts stupid drunk regardless of race. Its hard to drive sober on the pothole ridden construction roller coaster of Albuquerque's freeways. The police don't want to fight real crime and the highway department wants to keep all the money to themselves
    nmsamanda

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