Is that your appetite?
In Columbus, Ohio, local cops and judges have conspired to put together a series of No Refusal Weekends
for DUI stops. If you’re pulled over on suspicion of DUI, you have the choice to consent
to a breathalyzer test, or to be chained up by the cops, hauled off to a hospital, jabbed with a needle, and having your blood drawn against your will for BAC testing.
Please keep in mind, if you happen to be passing through Columbus, that the local police force believes that, on certain weekends of the year (notably, big football games and, natch, the Independence Day), they have the right to stop you, harass you, demand your papers, and then tie you down and take your blood against your will in order to try to find some incriminating evidence, based on absolutely nothing other than some cop’s vague suspicions and impressionistic judgments about your driving, and on the fact that you refused consent to an invasive search by other means.
(Story via Yury Tsukerman 2008-10-27.)