Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Don't Walk, Run! Productions"
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@33greenleaf You're welcome. The whole idea of something like the PAS flashlight is to sort out if alcohol was the cause of the observed driving behavior or if it might be some other condition. If a suspect couldn't maintain his lane, it could be alcohol, some kind of drugs, legal or otherwise, or a medical condition. Portable breathalyzers did affect arrests rates. If an FST was a wobbler, the portable breathalyzer provided prima facie evidence of a suspect being impaired or not. Alcohol tolerant suspects can pass an FST yet be over the legal BAC. Back when I started in 1978 we had our nose and an FST. That was about it. We now have multiple devices to measure the probable BAC on the roadside. We have dash cams and later body cams to record the suspects behavior and FST, and that was many times a determining factor in if a suspect was arrested. We'd have to spend a lot less time on the stand going over our notes compared to just showing a judge or jury a video. I retired in 2005, and I imagine there are even more high tech gadgets now.
My own observations over the timespan from 1978 to 2005 was many more impaired drivers were going to jail in 2005 than 1978. The way we looked at impaired drivers underwent a drastic change during that period. If someone had a few too many in 1978 and could either have someone come and get them or take a cab home to sleep it off, that was the final outcome in a lot of cases. I'd have been in big trouble if I had tried that in 2005. Second or subsequent DUIs do result in incarceration in many states. In my state, even a first offense in a minimum 48 hours unless your lawyer can get you a work release or some years of probation. Second offense in 10 years can be up to a year in county jail, and a third is now a mandatory six months, and could be up to a year. A fourth in your lifetime is now a minimum of 16 months in state prison and could be up to three years. All of that was unheard of in 1978. The combination of changes in the law, societal changes, and procedure changes, like DUI checkpoints, resulted in many more people spending at least a night in jail. I don't know how to parse that out of the stats, but I think it's real.
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I lived and traveled in my 26 foot Safari Trek motorhome for four years after I sold my home in northern California. It was a lovely way to live. I saved enough for a 40% down payment for my my present home far away from California. If something happened that I lost my home, although I can't imagine how that could happen, going back to the Trek would be okay.
As for this Danielle woman, she could have bought a decent used class C motorhome for less than $6,000 by hunting around for deals. Her monthly payment on a five year 10% loan would have been $127 a month, and she would own it by now. Even if she splurged for a nicer rig and paid $10,000, her payment would still only be $212. She'd have a toilet and shower, stove, oven, microwave, refrigerator, furnace, TV, and probably air conditioning. With the right setup, she could run everything from battery power or propane except the A/C, and she could even run that if the motorhome included a generator. She could get her and her daughter phones with unlimited data from Straight Talk for $55 a month each, and be able to access the net on her computer from a Straight Talk wifi hotspot that would cost a one time fee of $15. That would save her another $100 a month. Even with the worse gas mileage of a motorhome, she'd still be paying less than her $350 lease payment and she can cook her own food. She could cut her food cost in half, start eating more healthy, and reduce the tonnage her and her daughter have packed on from eating fast food every day.
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