Pulled over Sunday night / Monday morning @ 1 AM
Officer says I have been driving 'erratic' and believes I have been drinking.
Not the case at all. Nobody on the road so I may have did a lane switch without a turn signal, but to be honest, I doubt even that.
Wasn't drinking so no smell of alcohol or slurred speech.
They get you out of the car to do a 'sobriety test'. IMO this is just so another office can 'search your car' while you're on the side of the road trying to walk heel-toe for 9 steps and pivot. I didn't do well there but I didn't fall over or anything like that either.
Breathalyzer time. 0.00
The police tell me they are going to take me to the police station to meet with a 'drug recognition expert'. Shall we tow your car? Please do not do that.
We wait half an hour for the 'DRE'. At one point while we are waiting for the 'DRE' to arrive I realize I have been in conversation with this cop for 20 minutes and he HAS TO know at this point I am not drunk, high or on anything.
The DRE takes your pulse and blood pressure and asks some questions. He tells me that I have a 'green tongue' and that is a sure
signal I have been smoking marijuana this evening. I haven't picked up a joint in 25-30 years. OH COME ON was his response back, I assume they 'try' for a confession of some kind?
Off to the hospital for bloodwork (drug test). Haven't gotten it back. It will yield nothing though.
Back to the police station I am given a slip of paper with an address on it. Your car is there.
I call a taxi and my car is there but I can't get it. It's been IMPOUNDED.
I have the taxi take me to a motel down the highway ($35 bill)
I walk into the room and the first thing I check -- do I have a green tongue? Of course not. My tongue is pink.
$125 towing, $45 for 'storage' , $70 taxi bill (up and back) $75 motel bill.
Do we really operate like this? To be honest if I was driving down at 5 PM none of this would have happened, but because it was 1 AM things were handled very carelessly. You can't imagine how pissed I am.
Officer says I have been driving 'erratic' and believes I have been drinking.
Not the case at all. Nobody on the road so I may have did a lane switch without a turn signal, but to be honest, I doubt even that.
Wasn't drinking so no smell of alcohol or slurred speech.
They get you out of the car to do a 'sobriety test'. IMO this is just so another office can 'search your car' while you're on the side of the road trying to walk heel-toe for 9 steps and pivot. I didn't do well there but I didn't fall over or anything like that either.
Breathalyzer time. 0.00
The police tell me they are going to take me to the police station to meet with a 'drug recognition expert'. Shall we tow your car? Please do not do that.
We wait half an hour for the 'DRE'. At one point while we are waiting for the 'DRE' to arrive I realize I have been in conversation with this cop for 20 minutes and he HAS TO know at this point I am not drunk, high or on anything.
The DRE takes your pulse and blood pressure and asks some questions. He tells me that I have a 'green tongue' and that is a sure
signal I have been smoking marijuana this evening. I haven't picked up a joint in 25-30 years. OH COME ON was his response back, I assume they 'try' for a confession of some kind?
Off to the hospital for bloodwork (drug test). Haven't gotten it back. It will yield nothing though.
Back to the police station I am given a slip of paper with an address on it. Your car is there.
I call a taxi and my car is there but I can't get it. It's been IMPOUNDED.
I have the taxi take me to a motel down the highway ($35 bill)
I walk into the room and the first thing I check -- do I have a green tongue? Of course not. My tongue is pink.
$125 towing, $45 for 'storage' , $70 taxi bill (up and back) $75 motel bill.
Do we really operate like this? To be honest if I was driving down at 5 PM none of this would have happened, but because it was 1 AM things were handled very carelessly. You can't imagine how pissed I am.
