Breathalizer

Gidday Daz

You’re a long way behind. A few years back I had to meet a couple of friends in Meekatharra before heading off into the bush north of there.

By the time I got back to Victoria I was breathalized 8 times.

The last one was just West of Eucla where I was pulled over once again. I mentioned to the copper, that with all this huffin’ and puffin’ a fella hasn’t had time to have a drink!

It turned out they were having a blitz on interstate plates.

Regards

Kim

Not long after the New Year was breatherlized between Witchelina and Farina SA heading to Lyndhurst from William Creek. Cop on the side of the road in a Troopy miles from nowhere blues flashing, about 2 in the afternoon.

Wife looked at me, and I at her and we shrugged our shoulders......

Last time I got breathalized I had a low reading. Problem was I had nothing to drink, except coffee. Apparently the sugar in coffee, can give you a reading. (Ferments in stomach as told by officer) Admitadely you need to drink a lot, which back then I did. Wonder what all these energy drinks with their high content of sugar will do?

Many years ago as a Taxi owner operator with my parents. Just out of town at one of the little country halls a young lad was holding his 18th birthday party, We ferried kids back and forth all evening into town and back with more grog. A group of young girls had booked for us to pick them up at 12.30 am the next morning. So out of town I go(only about 15k's) to wait for them. One the way out I'm pulled up by the Coppers and breathalyze, while other vehicles drive past in both directions. It was one of the local boys, so ask why he was testing me when there were other road users that would more than likely be over, his answer, "it is a random Breathe test sir"
I left shaking my head. On the return trip ten minutes later I am tested again while vehicles that were at the hall were not stopped..
Apart from those two times I have never been Breathalyze in 27 years of driving.

Howdy Daz

About ten / eleven years ago the local copper at the time at Oodnadatta set up a breathalizer a 1/4 of the way into the Simpson Desert just over a sand hill out of sight and got 90 % of the drivers heading across the desert for the Birdsville races - That's dedication for you !! They must have required his services elsewhere because very soon after his hard working efforts in the desert he was transfered !

Happy Travelling

Gazz

west of eucla must be a popular spot. left a free roadside camp near there a few weeks ago and got tested at 8.00am in the middle of nowhere

See a pattern here???? Breath testing is code for the legal ability to pullver and check you out.

Certainly on the entry roads for states. Eucla in WA. The Barkley highway just inside the NT border west of Mt Isa.

When you enter WA both you and your number plate are photographed at the border. I would lay money this is run through a number plate reading computer and filed somewhere. Big brother is alive in WA and I bet in other places as well.

When I read exploroz and see how many are obsessed with "happy hour" and always worried about "keeping the beer cool" I think there must be a lot of alcoholics amongst us.

So maybe they should breathalyse all us caravaners.

A good mate that doesn't visit the site or for that matter even uses the internet, said to me one day he reckons he knows why we sit down in front of the computer and have a few beers. The Booze Bus, yep. Can't go the local and have a few beers, and catch up, have a whinge, get it off ya chest and then drive home. So we do it online now instead of going to the pub. I reckon he's got a fair enough point.

Not that I've crack one, Yet LOL.

It surprises me how many people think it is OK to drink & drive off road, particularly in the HIgh Country.

I was breath tested the other week on Sherwood Road in Rocklea (Brisbane) at 10am- I was driving from the diesel mechanic back to work. I thought it was a bit crazy (who is drinking at 10am?!) but they had actually stopped a bloke already. I guess it happens everywhere!