Pulaski

Dämnit! That's twice in five minutes you've beaten me by a matter of seconds!

Bob

In Maine and probably most other states, if you're in the passenger seat, you'd be fine because you wouldn't be considered to be in control of the car...you stick the keys in the ignition so you can move the seat out of the way and you'll be in trouble though.

Bit daft because if you can't sleep it off in the car, they're kind of inviting people to drive drunk, certainly out in these areas where there are no public transport/taxi options.

Sure, people shouldn' just drive, but you know that doesn't happen.

Pulaski

And you're probably going to blame auto correct, again.

Mrs Danvers

Yes someone told me I could have been in trouble the day after I did it. I wasn't aware of the law beforehand. But I was lying in the backseat. Just wondering if it was the drivers seat only that the police have a problem with?

GeoffM

Not even in the driving seat. If you have the keys to the car and are in it (or possibly not even inside but adjacent to it) then you can be arrested. A work colleague had a couple of hours kip in the back seat before the police happened to pass, woke him up, breathalysed him, arrested him, and he ended up with a 6 month ban as well as all the other shenanigans.

Bob

Naa....that's just not double checking this time

Nutek

Just tried.

Failed.

Pulaski

Drunkard!

Pulaski

Maybe you should disconnect the battery before passing out inside?

Nutek

They wouldn't know what a "Zed" was anyhow.

Hotscot

It took a while...they had to wait.
And there was my aggressive accent...

TopSec

I was going to say that if you don't have the keys to the car you are OK in the drivers seat, but that then begs the question; how did you get in the car I had a friend back home in N Yorks who got collared at Christmas once. He knew he'd had too much too drink, his car was in the hotel car park but for some reason he moved it (think it was parked blocking a door or something), he moved it and literally put his front wheels out onto the road whilst moving it and they nabbed him Guess they knew there would be people about driving after parties etc.

I cannot do the alphabet backwards, even sat here

Don't even get me started on US drivers, the majority of them would fail a UK style driving test! Mind you, even at home, I wonder how some people ever passed?

If you want an amusing five minutes in Houston, watch them try to parallel park

hungryhorace

You gotta be in it to win it Pulaski my man

Michael

You did something illegal. The police just can't pull someone over if there is no sign that the person has done anything illegal but if they are swaying back and forth on the road, they will be pulled over to try to determine why if spotted by the police. You can't have a police car at every bar/restaurant/home and behind every driver on the road.

In California, 215,000 people were arrested for DUI in 2013 so they just aren't just looking for people not correctly stopping at stop signs.

DUI Arrest Statistics | Statistic Brain

Michael

You can possibly do that but you will likely also be hauled to jai and video taped even if you passed the breath analyzer. That is because the police have suspicions that you are under the influence but there is no absolute test for being under the influence of drugs (drug tests only indicate that you have drugs in your system but not whether you would be considered under the influence) and they will use your persona, motions, etc. to try to convict you in court of being under the influence.