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DUI Checkpoint in Mex at the Border

sancho - 9-11-2013 at 01:31 PM

Picked this off a fishing site, it isn't mine, poster is referring
to last Sat., says it was at 2 am, may be of interest to
some who drain a few Pacificos before coming back





Came home from Ensenada Sat. at 2am and the Police had a DUI check point set up just before you get in line to cross. I had no problem but there were a lot of drunks pulled over on left. When I got to the front of the line a officer asked me in English if I had been drinking and when I said no, he asked not even a beer? my reply was absolutely not and he let us go. Boarder crossing was 30 min. From Ensenada to boarder was 2 military check points that waved me through and the DUI check point. So do not Drink and drive in Mexico just like in the States.

Can't Steer without a Beer ?

MrBillM - 9-11-2013 at 03:00 PM

WHAT is the Third-World coming to ?

Hooray. Haul them AWAY.

A Mexican Jail will sober them up.

DENNIS - 9-11-2013 at 03:10 PM

A person could be guilty of DWC [driving while comatose] if he had enough fun tickets in his pocket.

Ensenada checkpoints

bajaguy - 9-11-2013 at 04:27 PM

There are several in Ensenada on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve......Ensenada, State and Federal working together.

dasubergeek - 9-11-2013 at 04:32 PM

There's been a huge increase in the number of DUI checkpoints. I've hit them probably 7 out of 10 times I've been out after about 10 p.m. in Tijuana. There are a few really popular spots: on Calle Segunda just past the rock cut, on Calle Segunda again just before the turn off for 9th, on Sánchez Taboada just south of Mercado Hidalgo (they pull everyone into that empty lot that had the pop-up American barbecue for a while and hosts the circus when it's not sitting in the Cámara de Diputados in Mexico City), and on Díaz Ordaz headed out toward the 5 y 10 from the Hipódromo (to catch all the drunken revellers coming back from Clássico).

bledito - 9-11-2013 at 05:36 PM

Drunk driving very scary, in this day of technology one would think they could come up with veihcles that sense when a person has been drinking and disable the veichle.

mulegemichael - 9-11-2013 at 07:04 PM

i would think it would be hard to keep that breathalyzer mask on and drive, which is ever more a deterrent!

mulegemichael - 9-11-2013 at 07:13 PM

however...and i want to make this perfectly clear..if at all possible...that i want to quantify my bride's and i adventure into our little village of mulege a few nights a week......ON the river road!!...IN our simple little atvs....no people...no traffic...no pools ...no pets...we are talking WALKING speed here!!!!..along a winding dirt track along our river after a few c-cktails and a bottle of wine at scotties and a wonderful dinner!!!!......SO!!!....i say we have the right to "waddle" back to our casa after indulging in excess...if we lived in mulege and there was no river road, we wouldn't live there...so....we, at no point, would have heard the road being built, as we weren't onsite at the time so i'm fairly certain there was no sound....including the explosion WE heard!!.......oh my!

dasubergeek - 9-12-2013 at 10:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bledito
Drunk driving very scary, in this day of technology one would think they could come up with veihcles that sense when a person has been drinking and disable the veichle.


They have them. They're called ignition interlock devices (IID, not to be confused with IUD :lol:). You have to blow into a tube and register a non-intoxicated blood-alcohol level before the ignition will start. They're mandatory in fifteen U.S. states for any DUI conviction, once you get your license back, and in every state in the U.S. for subsequent DUI offenses and for first offenses when the convict has minor children. In the DF, Edomex and Puebla they're required as well, but I don't know about the rest of Mexico.

Bajahowodd - 9-12-2013 at 04:58 PM

In my adulthood, the BA percentage has been continually lowered, on both state and federal levels. Although I do not condone so-called drunk driving, there has been a gradual decrease in the official levels that appears to be headed toward zero tolerance.

Times and society change.

Point Taken

MrBillM - 9-12-2013 at 08:20 PM

It IS bothersome when there are DUIs of what was previously Legal.

AND, except for Thuggish EXTORTION by the Feds, would Still be Legal in many states.

woody with a view - 9-12-2013 at 08:40 PM

you can be under the .08 limit and still guilty of driving under the influence. just having alcohol on your breath is a crime nowadays. it's about making $ for the cities, nothing else.

Ken Cooke - 9-12-2013 at 08:52 PM

Its dangerous enough to drive *without* alcohol in your system. Be safe out there.

Jacume - Hwy 2 (near El Hongo)

Another GOOD Point

MrBillM - 9-12-2013 at 08:59 PM

There are those (like Cookie ?) who are Dangerous behind the wheel regardless of alcohol content.

Ken Cooke - 9-12-2013 at 09:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MrBillM
There are those (like Cookie ?) who are Dangerous behind the wheel regardless of alcohol content.


I don't drink & drive - I don't condone it, either.

DENNIS - 9-13-2013 at 07:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Its dangerous enough to drive *without* alcohol in your system. Be safe out there.

Jacume - Hwy 2 (near El Hongo)



I can almost guarantee that if the driver had one of his hands wrapped around a frosty Pacifico, this would not have had the same result.



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sancho - 9-13-2013 at 11:06 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
you can be under the .08 limit and still guilty of driving under the influence. just having alcohol on your breath is a crime nowadays




Good point, I don't know if Mex has any number, .8? to go by
re: being intoxicated, don't know how they take readings,
if at all. Have heard TJ Cops will gain leverage on a driver
if they smell alcohol, mordida? I even had one ask me to breath into
his face, back in the day. An aquaintance was stopped in
San Diego, blew a .05, the Cop prused it as impaired
driving, he was forced to do all the DUI requirements just
the same as if it was .08, a fine, no alcohol of any measure
in him when driving for a few yrs., etc

dasubergeek - 9-13-2013 at 01:00 PM

The official limit across all Mexico is 0.8 g/L in blood, just as it is in the US.

Sancho is right—you can be arrested for DUI/DWI even under 0.08% BAC, they just have a harder burden of proof. 0.08% BAC is considered prima facie proof.

DENNIS - 9-13-2013 at 01:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dasubergeek
they just have a harder burden of proof.


In Meseeeko, the burden of proof is on the accused. :o

dasubergeek - 9-13-2013 at 01:10 PM

Sorry, I should have been clearer: in the U.S., 0.08% BAC (0.8 g/L) is considered prima facie proof.

Martyman - 9-13-2013 at 02:47 PM

Remember when drinking and driving was an olympic sport?

DENNIS - 9-13-2013 at 03:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Martyman
Remember when drinking and driving was an olympic sport?



Ohhhh, sure. When I was much younger in Newport, it was a law that you had to drink while driving or be suspended from the Yacht Club for thirty days.
NoNoNo....wouldn't want that. :biggrin:

willardguy - 9-13-2013 at 03:14 PM

I just read over at no mas that starting oct 1st no more drinking on the san felipe malecon. think what you want, im not down with this "new" baja :rolleyes:

sancho - 9-13-2013 at 03:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS


When I was much younger in Newport





D, You mean Newport Beach, like Orange County, Ca.?
Blackies, Balboa Saloon, Malarkeys, Snug Harbor, maybe
something called the Stag by the pier. Newport Cops
on a Sat. Sun. morn 1-2am don't have much trouble
finding borrachos, don't know how I escaped them,
back in the day that is, mucho anos antes

Bajahowodd - 9-14-2013 at 04:45 PM

Huntington Beach is banning the sale of alcohol during the raves and any public event. Need to make easier on the cops.

Bajahowodd - 9-14-2013 at 04:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MrBillM
It IS bothersome when there are DUIs of what was previously Legal.

AND, except for Thuggish EXTORTION by the Feds, would Still be Legal in many states.


Thanks Kilroy.

DENNIS - 9-14-2013 at 05:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by sancho
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D, You mean Newport Beach, like Orange County, Ca.?
Blackies, Balboa Saloon, Malarkeys, Snug Harbor, maybe
something called the Stag by the pier.



That be the place. In fact, at a time I lived above the Stag.


OMG....my past is reliving itself in front of my eyes. What a wonderful movie.