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Think Alcohol Detectors Can Make You Safer?

Police Departments around the world attest to the accuracy and admissibility of alcohol detector equipment.  These innovative pieces of technology accurately test your blood alcohol level within .0025 of a percent.  Their accuracy is what makes the test result admissible in a court of law in the United States.  Want to save yourself a lot of money and headache?  Buy your own and before you leave your next big party or the local tavern…find out what your score is.  Avoiding a ticket is just one reason to make such an investment…your life and the lives of your family and friends, as well as those you may not know may depend on it.

We’ve all seen the commercials of young children playing and laughing at a park or in their bedrooms dressing up while a parent shoots the scene with a camcorder.  The child looks happy and is telling his mom or dad to “watch this” as he/she performs a miracle stunt.  Then, the screen goes black.  The next words you see are “Jessica, age 7.  Killed by a drunk driver.”

These are more than just advertisements designed to anger or scare you.  These are advertisements that touch the heart and appeal to the common sense side in all of us.  (The opinion that all of us actually HAVE a common sense side is debatable at another time)  These advertisements encourage all of us to keep in touch with our bodies, with reality and with the fact that we MAY have just had too much to drive our cars without any problems.

Alcohol detector equipment is all the newest rage at parties.  These small, electronic devices allow a user to “blow” into the device which then takes the saliva and measures the content of blood alcohol in your system.  These slim, small digital alcohol detector devices could pass for cell phones.  Their price is equal that of an MP3 player and, at under $70 for most devices, can be easily purchased by anyone.  Kept in a purse or in the glove box of a car, these are easily used in private and, if you so choose, can be given to someone else to test their blood alcohol levels.  The device comes with multiple mouth pieces that can be washed with soap and water.

Alcohol detector devices are misused only when they are passed around to those who know they’ve consumed far too much alcohol to drive safely and the users just want to see how high their levels can go before they black out.  A party game, this, like so many others in the United States, has risen and is a matter of life and death in and of itself.  Drivers who are convicted of driving drunk in the state of Ohio are “tagged” by being forced to display a yellow license plate on the front and rear of their automobiles. During their time of suspension if that driver is seen driving, a patrol officer will pay close attention to the vehicles’ speed, direction and ability to be driven safely.  This “tagging” of driver’s who have had previous convictions for drunk driving alerts the patrol officer that this might be a potential violator.

There are those alcohol detector devices that owners or operators of public drinking establishments can purchase for public use.  These coin-operated alcohol detector devices are great ways for those who are questioning their ability to drive safely (or even their ability NOT to get caught) to determine what their blood alcohol level is.  A person who is pulled over and asked to submit to a alcohol detector test can not refuse based on the fact that during a traffic stop they cited their previous result from Joe’s Tavern 10 minutes ago.  Anyone who tries this will be arrested and their car will go to impound and they will be explaining to a judge how they know that the alcohol detector at Joe’s Tavern was recently calibrated, not messed with and accurate within .0025 of a percent.  Chances are, you might just want to take a puff and blow when you are asked to.

Alcohol detector devices are used to save lives.  They are not intended to ruin your fun or spoil your party.  For just a few dollars, you might be able to save your life, the life of a friend or that of a stranger…like little Emily who was playing dress up for her mom one rainy day.

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