Imagine you are driving drunk and you’re on your cell phone and you see an RCMP roadblock up ahead.
Wouldn’t you hang up the phone?
That would be the common sense approach, but when you’re drunk I guess you’re not really using common sense at all, right?
That’s what Burnaby RCMP discovered on the weekend when officers set up a roadblock looking for impaired drivers.
Officers caught two impaired drivers, including one who was still on their phone as they were stopped.
You just can’t make up this kind of stupidity. It’s sadly prevalent in our society despite all of the warnings about the dangers of impaired driving.
It’s like what happened on Good Friday when the Burnaby RCMP staged a seatbelt check on Burnaby Mountain. I remember it because I actually drove through it (yes, I was wearing my seatbelt).
On top of catching people without their seatbelts – they nailed 17 drivers or passengers despite ample warning – police also caught three drivers out in their vehicles without a driver’s licence.
And one of these drivers handed police a fake driver’s licence.
It didn’t work. Police saw through the ruse and the driver was left without a vehicle. Imagine thinking you could fool the police with your homemade licence.
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