I got one of those once. The officer thought I was drunk, but tests proved I was not. What I was, was recovering from a gunshot wound and had overestimated my stamina and became so fatigued on my way home that I made an illegal turn one block from my home. When asked how I pled to the Driving Under the Influence charge, I said, I plead the results of that alcohol screen. No drunk driving, the judge dropped it and asked me if I thought I was impaired when stopped. I said that obviously I was, I just hadn’t been aware of how debilitated I was from the injury. We reached an accomodation. I was guilty of not being in full control. Now sweat. Nobody’s fault but mine that I made an error in assessing my ability to get home safely. But it beats the hell out of being labeled a drunk driver.

Expansion of definitions is the very thing that has criminalized non-criminals and made assault weapons of ordinary firearms, threats out of drawings of guns, expellable offenses of “finger” guns in childhood games of cops and other robbers, and a host of other sins of state possible.

Christ, if they won’t live by their own rules, why should they be allowed to expand the definitions of the terms?