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When the stone-cold-sober pensioner with poor lung capacity was unable to blow hard enough to activate the roadside screening device, Margaret MacDonald was cited for failing to blow, her licence was suspended, she was fined $500 and her car was towed.
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3 cheers for due process!!
How about Cops who are complete robots incapable of acknowledging the painfully obvious? Give them all the power in the world. Seems completely reasonable to me that they should be Judge, Jury and Executioner right there on the side of the road.
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“I could not blow at all,” she said. “I was traumatized, cold and close to tears. When I could not blow, the senior RCMP banged his fist on the squad car and shouted at me: ‘Blow, blow … Your tongue is in the tube. You are doing this on purpose. You are slurring your words. You are drunk. I can smell alcohol on you.’ I said, ‘I don’t drink.’ He barked: ‘They all say that!’”
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Yeah, oh yeah, incredibly reasonable people. This is a senior RCMP officer? Can we give him more power? He seems like hes adamant about cleaning up the streets from all of those pesky 82 year old pensioners.
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“I know if you don’t have proof, no one will believe you,” MacDonald explained. “That’s what possessed me to go to the hospital. The Mounties weren’t going to get away with saying I was drunk or had been drinking.”
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Funny, typically when a crime is involved, doesnt the onus of proof fall upon the prosecution? The Police had ZERO proof that she was intoxicated. Did they even bother with a field sobriety test or was it just easier to charge her, suspend her and tow her car?