"Freeway signs warning of upcoming drug checkpoints are actually a ruse: the local sheriff sets up a checkpoint at the next offramp and searches panicky motorists who pull off to ditch their stashes. An accompanying map on the original post gives the locations of similar checkpoints all over the USA, and warns, "if you see one of these signs, don't fucking exit.""Found at 420 Tribune, which discusses the ethics and legality of such ruses and searches. Via Boing Boing.
Way to promote illegal activity, dipshit.
ReplyDeleteIronically, if the police are to set up random drug or alcohol checkpoints, they must do so in such a way to allow people to circumvent them. Though typically, they give very little time to change course, the must do so, legally.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm. Nathan says that legally they must setup checkpoints in such a way as to allow people to circumvent them. I'm trying to picture whether that was so for us a year or so ago. We got stopped in a very elaborate DUI checkpoint. The road was blocked off with traffic diverted into a large shopping center parking lot. Huge spotlights shined down, cops were everywhere. I'd never seen anything like it before. There was something about it that left me feeling uneasy. I'm all for DUI checkpoints, but this one seemed to tread a little on my civil rights. I got it all on video, because it was so outrageous.
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