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Old 12-12-2005, 09:25 PM
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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? PA
As a paraplegic arrested for a DUI, the officer, smiling, refused to allow me access to my wheelchair. He carried me into the station and sent me home in a cab where I had to crawl to my house as my wheelchair was left in the impounded vehicle despite my pleas. Is this arrest procedure legal?
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Old 12-12-2005, 09:26 PM
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Is this arrest procedure legal?
Cold, callous, yes. And still legal.
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Old 12-12-2005, 09:31 PM
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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? PA
As a paraplegic arrested for a DUI, the officer, smiling, refused to allow me access to my wheelchair. He carried me into the station and sent me home in a cab where I had to crawl to my house as my wheelchair was left in the impounded vehicle despite my pleas. Is this arrest procedure legal?

Next time, don't be a criminal! You want to violate the law? Then expect to be treated with disrespect - - because YOU were disrespecting us and the law!
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Not only that... the officer was correct in NOT allowing you to access your wheelchair. If he had, you could have been charged with ANOTHER DUI!!
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There are at least 17 lawsuits (!!) pending in various courts, including the US Supreme Court, asking if Obama is a natural born citizen (as req'd by Art II, Sec 1 of the US Constitution).

Why has he spent over $1.35M in legal fees to block disclosure... rather than spend $12 for a VALID birth cert to settle the matter? The 'certificate' he has presented doesn't qualify to get a drivers license, wouldn't allow a child to qualify for Little League, or for a real citizen to get a US passport!
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Old 12-12-2005, 09:54 PM
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Not only that... the officer was correct in NOT allowing you to access your wheelchair. If he had, you could have been charged with ANOTHER DUI!!
I would have loved to see that chase on "COPS"
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Yes, people in battery powered wheelchairs have been arrested for DUI, with no car in sight.
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Yep. I have seen DUI arrests where the 'driver' was in or on:
- Battery powered wheelchairs
- Golf carts on public property
- jet skis
- snowmobiles
- bicycles
- and even riding lawnmowers
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There are at least 17 lawsuits (!!) pending in various courts, including the US Supreme Court, asking if Obama is a natural born citizen (as req'd by Art II, Sec 1 of the US Constitution).

Why has he spent over $1.35M in legal fees to block disclosure... rather than spend $12 for a VALID birth cert to settle the matter? The 'certificate' he has presented doesn't qualify to get a drivers license, wouldn't allow a child to qualify for Little League, or for a real citizen to get a US passport!
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Old 12-13-2005, 08:50 PM
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Yep. I have seen DUI arrests where the 'driver' was in or on:
- Battery powered wheelchairs
- Golf carts on public property
- jet skis
- snowmobiles
- bicycles
- and even riding lawnmowers
I'll see your golf cart and raise you a [URL=http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3327983]horse.[/URL]

Oddly enough, most of the horse DUI cases seem to come from down south. Go figure
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I can't imagine that free thinking people would approve of a wheelchair DUI. A Florida Judge seems to agree with me.

[url]http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/04/Hernando/Judge_tosses_out_DUI_.shtml[/url]
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I can't imagine that free thinking people would approve of a wheelchair DUI. A Florida Judge seems to agree with me.

[url]http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/04/Hernando/Judge_tosses_out_DUI_.shtml[/url]

whyever not? I am sure it would be impossible for someone in a wheelchair to impede traffic, or even cause accidents/injury, or posibly hit a oedestrian with their chair, or even damage property with the chair, freethinking is not the issue, poor judgement is
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whyever not? I am sure it would be impossible for someone in a wheelchair to impede traffic, or even cause accidents/injury, or posibly hit a oedestrian with their chair, or even damage property with the chair, freethinking is not the issue, poor judgement is
Thanks for setting me straight. Your nietzchien approach to the disabled is refreshing. Who are they to think that they can indulge in the same tang as the rest of us?

If the only thing I had to worry about, was an inebriated individual who happened to be wheelchair-bound, I would live to survive an age that would humble Methuselah himself.
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Old 12-14-2005, 07:17 PM
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If they want to get drunk, then they should get a non-motorized wheel chair.

I've charged a guy with DUI on his four wheeler in his back yard.

One of my officers stopped a guy who was weaving down the street on a riding lawnmower. On the trial date, the lawyer had to do a lot of digging before he finally conceded that it did fit the meaning of motorized vehicle.
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Thanks for setting me straight. Your nietzchien approach to the disabled is refreshing. Who are they to think that they can indulge in the same tang as the rest of us?

If the only thing I had to worry about, was an inebriated individual who happened to be wheelchair-bound, I would live to survive an age that would humble Methuselah himself.
not at all, but everyone-including people with disabilities should act responsibly and be held accountable for their actions.

just because someone is in a wheelchair does not give them a free pass on poor judgement
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