Drink Driving

A major checkpoint inbound on the N7 this morning.

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For tax?

Are they doing random drug testing now too? I thought they only did the roadside drug testing if they suspected a person was under the influence of something and had passed a breathalyser.

Time to kick the acid mate

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It may very well be.

Citizens going about their lawful business being subjected to delays to facilitate a photo op for the Gardai.

165 tests. 1 positive.

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They have to do the odd check

In fairness, 165 is just the Garda’s reported stats on breath tests for the day, so they probably only actually did about 80.

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I was one of the 145 tested for alcohol.
Got away with it. Although haven’t had a drink in about 10 days.

They had 3 lanes pushed into 1 using cones from a few KM back. Just before everyone got to the checkpoint there was one young fellas car that wasn’t moving. Was a Polo or a Golf. Initially I thought maybe it had broken down. But maybe he had a skinful the night before and was trying to get out of a test. Would love to know how that worked out :smile:

every few minutes count… I hope he got away with it.

He could have been stoned also.

There was a drink driving check point around Meath on Christmas morning at 9.30am.

Around Meath you say,way to narrow it down there lad.Im glad i wasn’t around Meath during the Christmas so

Not outside the Christmas pub O’Connells surely?

It’s not exactly “a coupla pints” as espoused by his neighbour DHR. That fucker needs locking up and a lengthy monitored bad. He’ll kill all before him before year’s end if not.

Kilgarvin must be light on pillars of the community when he’s allegedly one. Yerra…

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I thought it was amazing he was still out and about after all his previous high jinx

Sure he’d probably have got off if he didn’t plead guilty, like the time the Romanian lad got off because he didn’t get the paperwork in Irish!!

Paddy is a great lad for spouting shite about drink driving but a lot of the cases seem to get thrown out for fuck all :man_shrugging:

Mrs Goode’s cousin is in the traffic corps. I was only half listening to a conversation but they had set up a check point around Duleek and somewhere else on Christmas morning.

I was told not to even have 2 pints around the town for a few months last year when they were blitzing the place. Wouldn’t know what to believe though. Probably the wife telling me porkies to stop me having my sneaky couple and driving home!!

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I’m gone fair paranoid about the morning after even a few pints lately. Often have very early starts in the morning and start doing sums in my head to see how fast my liver has it’s work done. Even when the maths adds up, I’m still incredibly wary.