Stopped = driving
Been a few cases of someone in a parked car getting a DUI. Now, when you’re stopped at a red light, you’re driving for purposes no texting revenue err safety measures.
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November 16th, 2011 at 10:17 am
That’s nothing, I know guys who have gotten DUIs for drinking a beer and washing their car, because they turned the key halfway in order to have the radio on. Engine off, car in park, no driver = DUI. In the end, the law allows any policeman to arrest virtually anyone for anything he likes. We’re all criminals.
November 16th, 2011 at 10:50 am
And don’t you stop thinking that this isn’t going to start happening across the nation. Police talk to one another, exchanging techniques. I saw this start happening in the Illinois where car dealerships were selling 3/4 and 1 ton pickup trucks with the cheapest truck weighted plates for years to save buyers money and some clever officers discovered that the law there required the vehicle to be plated for Gross vehicle ratings rather than actual curb weight. It was a nice little revenue generator for some police departments once officers started telling each other about this issue.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:14 am
Since these laws are all about feelings and stealing money, they’ll do anything they can to take monies, without the faintest consideration for reality, because adhering to reality won’t make a difference.
November 16th, 2011 at 11:33 am
The better term is OWI (Operating While Intoxicated.) The idea is that any manipulation of the vehicle’s controls constitutes “Operating.”
As far as actually charging somebody with it, it’s up to the officer to try to use some common sense…
November 16th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
As far as actually charging somebody with it, it’s up to the officer to try to use some common sense…
Yeah…good luck with that one.
November 18th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Here in Arlington, TX, they just passed the no texting law.
Before it went into effect, a friend of mine pulled into a parking lot to text somebody and was followed in by a cop who hit her with a distracted driving citation…not for anything she did on the road, but because she was so focused on the phone that she didn’t see him approaching the car.