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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: DWI crackdowns, BAC, testing
Message-ID: <253@frog.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:38:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 17:38:31 1985
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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>>What is needed is for all states that have DWI policies to also require that
>>any bar in the state make avaiable to its patrons the use of a breathalizer
>>device
> 
> Here in North Carolina several bars I have been to have these machines.
> The only problem is all the loony alcoholics use it as a guage of machismo
> by challenging each other to blow as high a reading as possible without
> passing out. 
> 
> -todd jones

How about a modification to these machines to squirt aqueous KCN solution
into the throat of those who peg the meter?  Add a $10 fee per hit to go to
the bar (much like credit card companies give to establishments which put out
credit card applications), and I bet these things would spread like wildfire!
Hang on, I'm off to the Patent Office!!!

CLOSE-CAPTIONED FOR THE HUMOR-IMPAIRED:

		: - )


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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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