tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post383671353205205362..comments2024-03-28T18:32:00.146+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear..?JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-74170180033866381672010-05-29T05:48:54.292+01:002010-05-29T05:48:54.292+01:00"I guess the customers could just chalk it up...<i>"I guess the customers could just chalk it up to experience"</i> <br /><br />*groan*<br /><br /><i>"....this is guilt by currency useage and is farcical."</i> <br /><br />I'd always wondered if that was an urban myth, but it seems there's at least a kernal of truth to it.<br /><br /><i>"Reasonable suspicion is required for a Police Officer (nothing less than a PC, mind) to demand a Alchohol/Drug test."</i> <br /><br />Few people know their rights, and even fewer insist on them, assuming (probably rightly) that to stand up for them merely invites further scrutiny.<br /><br />And with the bewildering plethora of new laws brought in by the Righteous, it's even more confusing. So I suspect most people go along for a quiet life.<br /><i>""</i>JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-22805074188837454852010-05-28T11:02:54.884+01:002010-05-28T11:02:54.884+01:00Reasonable suspicion is required for a Police Offi...Reasonable suspicion is required for a Police Officer (nothing less than a PC, mind) to demand a Alchohol/Drug test. That is why they follow you in the car until you make a mistake, like not indicating in time, not using your mirrors sufficiently, crossing the median, etc. Then they have a reasonable suspicion to test if your driving ability is impaired. <br /><br />It is not illegal to be intoxicated as a pedestrian, so long as you are a) Capable, ie. you can walk in a straight(ish) line and are not throwing up/urinating etc. and b) Not disorderly, ie. you are not shouting/singing/threatening etc. As such, it would be near impossible for the Police to have a reasonable suspicion to drug-test at random in a Pub/Bar, and I most certainly would have refused, as should everybody else in future, before this outrageous assumption that people in the pub are all junkies becomes set in stone and the Police have a right to random drug-test whomsoever they wish.English Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03144810217381651105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-24348797958688046762010-05-28T10:21:30.177+01:002010-05-28T10:21:30.177+01:00It's actually the cash machines that spread th...It's actually the cash machines that spread the coke to the notes that pass through them from the odd contaminated one to all the others.<br /><br />IIRC up to 75% of notes would fail a drugs test as a result, how many tenners you would need to handle to fail a swipe test yourself I'm uncertain.<br /><br />So, yes, this was another utterly pointless activity by our friends in blue. Positive swab results are essentially meaningless except to falsely tar innocent people as guilty ... again.Jiksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-62395953323979783182010-05-28T09:30:43.345+01:002010-05-28T09:30:43.345+01:00As it is a well established fact that every bankno...As it is a well established fact that every banknote that has been in circulation for more than 2 weeks has been used for taking illegal substances I am surprised that only two had traces on them, this is guilt by currency useage and is farcical.<br />That anyone would ask the rozzers to come and test for drugs is also farcical given the above scenario, and they should not be alloweed to use police time and manpower let alone the public funding issues to do this. <br />Why can't clubs etc buy there own testing kit and get the door personel to do it anyway???Indyanhathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974285525646225459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-90779629896301752592010-05-28T09:25:22.117+01:002010-05-28T09:25:22.117+01:00I guess the customers could just chalk it up to ex...I guess the customers could just chalk it up to experienceJohnRShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021101596935644363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-3586924254222886192010-05-28T09:15:38.598+01:002010-05-28T09:15:38.598+01:00Most of them will act on tips in a snooker club, J...Most of them will act on tips in a snooker club, JuliaM.MTGnoreply@blogger.com