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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Threads like this are frustrating. You have half the people responding with logic and half responding with emotion and straw-man. It's certainly no way to hold a debate.
Fact: What this guy is doing (tweeting checkstop locations) is not illegal.
Fact: To make this illegal would contravene our freedom of expression as enshrined in the Charter.
My position? I'm okay with it.
If I'm sober and I see there's a checkstop on my phone, I'll take an alternate route - I dislike traffic snarls, and I've experienced what an ill-placed checkstop can do to traffic flow.
If I'm drunk? I don't have my car with me and I'm likely too busy talking to people to bother checking my phone for any reason, nevermind Twitter.
As far as how many checkstops I've seen, I've been driving for over ten years now, and at all times of the day/night. I can count on one hand how manycheckstops I've seen. I don't even need to count how many I've actually been through.
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Do you really think this guy created the twitter feed to help out the average, and presumably sober, citizen from having to endure the delays experienced at a checkstop? Even so, you have to sit through a 15 minute checkstop so the police can improve road saftey- ya, life is so rough.
My guess is-
A/ He is your typical "I hate the cops" guy and thinks he is somehow getting back at them for the numerous bad cop experiences, speeding tickets, and possibly a past DUI conviction, he has dealt with.
B/ He is one of those idiots that doesn't care about the consequences of drinking and driving because he can do whatever the hell he wants.
C/ Attention seeking
I think most people that are against what he is doing are aware of
the legal implications (precisely none) and are speaking against him based on moral grounds. Of course he can legally do this- so what! Dont do it.