Canada: Can I Get a DUI With my Burger?

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Posted by spc on Jan-10-2008 20:24:

Canada: Can I Get a DUI With my Burger?

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Police work drive-thrus for DUIs
SURREY, B.C. (CNS) -- Police in this Vancouver-area city have hatched a new plan to crack down on drunk drivers who get the munchies.

Project WULF -- Would you like fries? -- involves putting an officer inside the drive-thru booth of co-operating restaurants.

"Taking a passive observer role, the police officer is able to hear the slurred speech, smell the stale liquor and advise a second officer who then stops the vehicle as it departs," said Surrey RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Roger Morrow.

The project, which began in late 2007 and is expected to continue all year, has already resulted in a number of impaired-driving charges and roadside suspensions.

Morrow said the idea came after police heard innumerable times from drive-thru employees that, "You should be here late at night."

Source: http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstar...43-de18898882d7

I think this is a great idea since it would crack down on a lot of drunk drivers (or make them eat at Denny's instead), but it does seem a bit intrusive, almost some kind of entrapment maybe? I dunno, I think it's a good idea that I wish would happen in my state.

Posted by nchs09 on Jan-10-2008 20:27:

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Originally posted by spc
Source: http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstar...43-de18898882d7

I think this is a great idea since it would crack down on a lot of drunk drivers (or make them eat at Denny's instead), but it does seem a bit intrusive, almost some kind of entrapment maybe? I dunno, I think it's a good idea that I wish would happen in my state.
Isnt that the same as just sitting outside the bar and listening to the people talk and if their speech is slurred stop them?

I know in Georgia it is illegal

Posted by iammesol on Jan-10-2008 20:28:

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Originally posted by nchs09
Isnt that the same as just sitting outside the bar and listening to the people talk and if their speech is slurred stop them?

I know in Georgia it is illegal

They're not in cars.

Posted by nchs09 on Jan-10-2008 20:30:

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Originally posted by iammesol
They're not in cars.
I think its they would run into that problem with the law here though. Its in Canada though so who knows what the laws are up there.... of even if they have any those wild savages.

Posted by Dr. DAS on Jan-10-2008 20:48:

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Originally posted by nchs09
I think its they would run into that problem with the law here though. Its in Canada though so who knows what the laws are up there.... of even if they have any those wild savages.

If you pull up to a drive-thru igoo, you're driving and therefore open to a DWI, what you call a DUI.

Stopping someone with slurred speech in the parking lot, before they untie their dogsled, doesn't give them cause to stop you, you could be going to get your ice fishing pole before you walk home. That's why if you're going to sleep it off in your snow groomer, leave the keys in the trunk so there can be no arguement as to your intention to drive.

Posted by Thierry on Jan-10-2008 22:14:

We've had those pigs do that at McDonalds and other fast-food places here for a year or two now. I thought it was normal all around Canada, not just here in Edmonton.

Posted by trance__dreamer on Jan-10-2008 23:17:

ahaha. i live in a city beside surrey. =P

it's all over the news & in the papers. it's craziness! =O

but i haven't had it happen to me yet, though. o__O

... & no. no one lives in igloos except people wayyyy up north close to the arctic circle.

in vancouver, we don't get snow very often, & when we do, it's very minimal & rarely sticks. but yea...i know that in winnipeg, they get HARSH snow, so bad that it makes me wonder how d.j.s tolerate their gig(s) there. ahaha.

Posted by Audious on Jan-10-2008 23:58:

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Originally posted by trance__dreamer
ahaha. i live in a city beside surrey. =P

it's all over the news & in the papers. it's craziness! =O

but i haven't had it happen to me yet, though. o__O

... & no. no one lives in igloos except people wayyyy up north close to the arctic circle.

in vancouver, we don't get snow very often, & when we do, it's very minimal & rarely sticks. but yea...i know that in winnipeg, they get HARSH snow, so bad that it makes me wonder how d.j.s tolerate their gig(s) there. ahaha.

Shut up, you live in an igloo. Eskimo bitch.