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sancho
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DUI Checkpoint in Mex at the Border
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.
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MrBillM
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Can't Steer without a Beer ?
WHAT is the Third-World coming to ?
Hooray. Haul them AWAY.
A Mexican Jail will sober them up.
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DENNIS
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A person could be guilty of DWC [driving while comatose] if he had enough fun tickets in his pocket.
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bajaguy
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Ensenada checkpoints
There are several in Ensenada on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve......Ensenada, State and Federal working together.
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dasubergeek
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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).
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bledito
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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.
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mulegemichael
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i would think it would be hard to keep that breathalyzer mask on and drive, which is ever more a deterrent!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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mulegemichael
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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!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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dasubergeek
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| 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.
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Bajahowodd
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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.
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MrBillM
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Point Taken
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.
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woody with a view
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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.
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Its dangerous enough to drive *without* alcohol in your system. Be safe out there.
Jacume - Hwy 2 (near El Hongo)
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MrBillM
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Another GOOD Point
There are those (like Cookie ?) who are Dangerous behind the wheel regardless of alcohol content.
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Ken Cooke
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| 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.
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DENNIS
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| 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)
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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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"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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sancho
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| 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
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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
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dasubergeek
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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.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dasubergeek
they just have a harder burden of proof. |
In Meseeeko, the burden of proof is on the accused. 
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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dasubergeek
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Sorry, I should have been clearer: in the U.S., 0.08% BAC (0.8 g/L) is considered prima facie proof.
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