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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
It gets kind of frustrating hearing "it only takes a moment of your time" argument. That's total bull. Every check stop I've ever been through I've been waived through without even rolling down my window along with most everyone else around me. And it still takes twenty minutes to get through. If you stop every single car and take a "moment" of everyone's time it's going to take hours to get everyone through.
It's not just check stops. Any lawful detainment can get you a test. I just hope cops still use a bit of common sense and look for suspicion first.
I also guarantee no one would be fine with the inconvenience if they received a false positive test. And that happens an awful lot.
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For one, it’s not a given that they would test everyone because they don’t have to, have their own time to account for, and are still functionally capable of using human common sense.
Two, you can request a second test if you fail the first one, and the false positive is exceedingly rare enough that you’d have to be the unluckiest SOB to fail two in a row (though let’s be honest, you’re probably just drunk).
It’s also frustrating to hear gross exaggeration, Orwellian slippery slopes, and the suggestion that some anecdotes are more valid than others.
In the two checkstops I encountered, I waited about 5 minutes. So not all checkstops take at least 20, and the addition of this rule will not automatically raise the time waited to an hour+ (you also need to keep in mind that police will be cognisant of line-length to ensure it doesn’t exceed exit options, checkstops are useless if you can see one coming and take an exit).