Please do not look like you are driving drunk when in California

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Because, among other things, they don't need a warrant anymore to ask you about it while you're at home.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

damn, i've always thought california was one of the most fun states to drive drunk in.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide if that's bullshit or if the judge has a point about the evidence (of drunkenness) being in immediate danger of disappearing.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I can see the purpose of this, and I can see how it fits with current interpretations of the Constitution ("running into your home after drunk-driving" = "running into your home with the bloody knife in hand") -- but to be honest I'm kind of more uncomfortable with the thought that police would take drunk drivers into car chases!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't trust cops to not abuse this. I don't trust cops at all.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

What if you run into a church and cry, "Sanctuaty!"

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

They'll arrest for your bad pronounciation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

(Yeah, Kenan, consider also that the only way this would apply is if police actually tailed you right to your doorstep and into the house -- otherwise there's no evidence you weren't drinking inside. So it'd only really function in the small number of cases where the person was basically caught and just tried to ditch out and claim sanctuary in the home.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Fluggy Bear, maybe the cops would be all "what did he say" "did you get that?" long enough for you to slip out through the narthex

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― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

They'll know you're you're drunk for sure.

Shankthuareee!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT IS "SANCTUARY"?

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― Logan 5 (ex machina), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Geek town, population Jon

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

BTW everyone I built me own pipe through a poorly configured firewall to root a windoze box on the other side by using a password stolen from an unpatched webserver. I am officially an Ultimate Hacker now.

-- TOMBOT (tombo...) (webmail), May 25th, 2006 4:29 PM. (TOMBOT) (link)

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHA. Is using the internet and posting on messageboards still considered "geeky"

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jon, perhaps you have me confused for someone else. Someone named "Tom"? Contrary to popular opinion, we are two different people! Though sometimes I'm not sure that "Jon" and "Tom" are.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

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― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i love how the reporter is "they can now enter a house, just like this" and they keep circling around some random livingroom/kitchen like we don't fucking know what a house is. anyway, this is bad news.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Contrary to popular opinion, we are two different people!

Two different people who have a lot of trouble with Macs.

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I've already explained myself to you. I'm sorry your mom is Steve Jobs but you need to let go the idea that everyone must have a Mac your way.

That car pic is making me think of a recent DC news story, some guy managed to jump a highway and a metro entrance and crash his car a good 15 feet in the air into a Macy's or Hecht's or whatever they call it here. He then ran to try to get on the bus to get away. Absolutely epic.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Was the bus jetting out of the wall aswell?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly no.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get this. As noted, the cops would have been tailing them anyway, presumably they would have flipped the lights on to pull them over, and the alleged lush kept driving home and ran inside. Can't the cops come in anyway, for the car chase/resisting arrest angle, even if it had absolutely nothing to do with drunk driving?

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I'm fairly certain, presuming that they did proper procedure and flipped on their lights and tried to pull the guy over.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Install your precious netscape 4

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to see you say that to my face.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Geek fight!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

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― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

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― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

This court decision is really going to spoil all the fun for the Ghost Ride A Whip get-togethers.

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Friday, 2 June 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

The case concerned the 2003 Santa Barbara arrest of Daniel Thompson, whom a neighbor suspected was driving drunk and notified authorities. They found a parked car matching the description the neighbor provided and went to the front door of the adjoining residence during a summer evening.

The door was open and a woman said the car's driver was asleep. Moments later, Thompson walked by the officers and they entered the house and arrested him. The neighbor confirmed it was the person she suspected of driving intoxicated and throwing an empty vodka bottle out the car door.

This reminds me of the time the cops hauled my brother off his front porch and sent him to detox. They gave him a breathilizer when he arrived. His blood-alchahol content was such that he could have legally driven himself to detox.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

PLEASE DO NOT LOOK LIKE YOU ARE DRIVING WHEN IN CALIFORNIA

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― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 2 June 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

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