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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. What are they looking for with the flashlight and her following it with her eyes?
Wed May 23, 2018, 04:36 PM
May 2018

Reminds me of the scene in Steve Martin movie "Man With Two Brains" when he is given real hard drunk test


I cant do the one where she counts and holds one leg up.

Seems like a practical joke almost, these tests. Why is he arresting her?

He must smell something, she did as good as I could on the tests and I am sober.

If you refuse the test you lose our license for a year. I assume she has been advised to do that and then to fight it in court, is it something you can then fight in court, the losing of the license?

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
6. I'm not watching 43 minutes of this, but I'm guessing that's for pupil response, ability to track...
Wed May 23, 2018, 05:18 PM
May 2018

...and ability to follow instructions. If you're inebriated, your pupils have a slower response to bright lights, your eyes can't track objects in the visual field as well, and if you're drunk you aren't going to follow specific directions correctly no matter how simple they are.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
10. The pupils thing I was wondering about, that makes sense, I assumed that was it
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:21 PM
May 2018

but thinking back to my drinking days I cant remember how my eyes worked or not, etc.

MarcA

(2,195 posts)
7. Not really sure how "drunk" she was and some of these tests
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:02 PM
May 2018

are a farce. May have been because she refused to take a breath
test and don't know what happened before the tape began. That Said
google Monica Youngblood. She was one of the stalwart supporters of
the sociopathic Martinez Administration and a real Kiss-up to the rich
and Kick-down to the rest who hated on the poor and probably herself
as well.

Evergreen Emerald

(13,069 posts)
13. It is a gaze nystagmus test
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:41 PM
May 2018

When someone drinks too much, their eyes involuntarily move back and forth (nystagmus) at a certain point (when they are looking far left or right). If nystagmus occurs when their eyes are looking all the way up or all the way down, they are drinking more than they are used to drinking.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
8. Not a big fan of roadblock testing but
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:06 PM
May 2018

she did get caught by one of those damn "big guvmint" programs

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
9. and the trick to beating those tests is to pay attention to the question details
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:13 PM
May 2018

she was pretty random with her responses.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
11. So if I am unable to hold my foot 6 inches off the ground with my hands to my side
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:22 PM
May 2018

and keep my balance, and perfectly sober that is VERY Hard to do, that isnt a problem as long as I try to do what he told me to do because that way I am showing I understood the instructions?

Hope so cuz most of these balance tests are HARD

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
12. Looking at her voting record
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:28 PM
May 2018

she doesn't go along with a lot of rightwing nutjob bills so she has a poor fascist rating.

brush

(53,778 posts)
15. Once cops get you in their grasp, not much is going to dissuade them.
Wed May 23, 2018, 11:52 PM
May 2018

Last edited Thu May 24, 2018, 10:28 AM - Edit history (1)

Many get off on the power they have over you.

She was at the mercy of this cop's judgement as to how she performed on the tests.

She certainly didn't seem drunk.

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