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Title: Want to visit Arizona in January a heads up
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Self
URL Source: http://Self
Published: Dec 30, 2007
Author: Self
Post Date: 2007-12-30 12:05:47 by robnoel
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Views: 352
Comments: 7
Can't beat AZ in January temps in the 70's and a lot of fun things to do Super-Bowl Phoenix Open and Barrett Jackson car auction to name a few for those who are planning a visit a few tips Don't drink and drive road blocks everywhere after dark 2,300 DUI arrests in Arizona since November The Associated Press Authorities participating in a statewide holiday drunken-driving task force say they've now made more than 2,300 DUI arrests since the effort began last month.On Friday alone, 182 drivers were booked on drunken-driving charges.The Governor's Office of Highway Safety coordinates the effort, which involves saturation patrols, DUI checkpoints and youth alcohol enforcement using officers from dozens of law-enforcement agencies. Authorities have stopped more than 32,000 drivers and issued more than 9,500 citations for driving offenses besides DUI.Under a new state law, DUI offenders face a minimum 10-day jail term, fines and license suspensions and must install an ignition-interlock device in their vehicles.The task force continues through New Year's Day. When driving be aware speeding cameras are everywhere After an independent study showed just how big a difference speed-enforcement cameras made on Loop 101, Gov. Janet Napolitano asked the city to turn them back on. The state is now running the program and taking it statewide through radar-equipped vans. Flying into Phoenix is easy getting out could be a problem Passengers Behavior Leads To Airport Arrests December 20, 2007 Federal aviation officers with special training helped Phoenix police arrest three men at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport earlier this month.“The Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques program allows the Transportation Security Administration to concentrate on finding people that may be a threat to aviation instead of only dangerous items,” said TSA spokesman Nico Melendez. “We are proud of the work our Behavior Detection Officers do, both in Phoenix and in airports around the country,” he added.TSA officers get four days of classroom instruction, 24 hours of on-the-job- training and mentoring. Plus, each year, officers must be re-certified, Melendez said. The TSA’s goal is to detect uncontrolled physical responses and body language that could point to suspicious behavior. Outside of that I hope you enjoy your visit and get to leave in one piece
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#1. To: robnoel (#0)
my advice on new year's weekend if you live in phoenix area - just stay home. eliminates any DUI possibility.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
slit your wrists !!!!
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money ." --- Josiah Stamp
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
That could apply to anywhere!!!!
Killing One Person Is Murder...Killing 100,000 is Foreign Policy!
First time offense will cost $10,000.00 however in America there is always a solution Drinkers are finding more inventive ways to get home safely after a night on the town. Their incentive: Avoiding thousands in legal fees and mandatory jail time under toughened drunken-driving laws. The liquor industry, which has seen the flow of liquor slow, helps customers by subsidizing cabs, limos and new designated-driver services. "We do save a lot of people from driving home and drinking and driving," said Chris Groepler, Transtyle Limousine general manager. Groepler's drivers line up outside Barcelona in Scottsdale and other clubs to take dozens of people home on weekend nights. Hensley, a major Valley beer distributor, offers $10 discount coupons for Zingo Arizona Designated Drivers, a service that takes bar patrons home in their cars. Zingo drivers stow fold-up motorized scooters stored in patrons' car trunks as part of the $25 basic shuttle-service fee to get themselves back after dropping off drivers and cars. With the coupon, it's $15 for the first 3 miles plus $3 per mile after that. It all comes down to dollars and sense. Dos Gringos bar owner Brian Roehrich said he has seen figures that Arizona's bar business is off as much as 28 percent. The industry has responded by trying to help its patrons drink responsibly and get home safely, he said. Dos Gringos in Scottsdale has sponsored the Zingo drivers and offered free rides for its patrons on a trial basis. Discount Cab offers free rides back to a bar to retrieve a vehicle has pre-paid debit cards that patrons can use for cashless taxi rides home, said Chris Pogue, the company's development manager. "We call it our get-out-of-jail-free card," he said. More specifically, it is a stay-out-of-Tent-City-Jail card. Public-safety officials point out that spending $25 or more for a ride home from a bar is far cheaper than riding with a police officer to jail. Penalties for drunken driving start at about $2,800, including nearly $1,000 to rent an ignition-interlock device for a year, plus 10 days in jail. That does not include attorney's fees, which can run several thousand dollars. The tougher penalties are scaring a lot of people, said Michael Hegarty, deputy director of the Governor's Office of Highway Safety. "We think it is having a good effect of changing their behavior," he said. Arly Richau, a local attorney, said he has noticed a change in the Scottsdale bars he frequents. "I have not seen a downturn in the number of people in the bars, but I have seen less alcohol being consumed," he said, adding that people switch to water after having a few drinks. Richau spent about $150 for a portable device from Sharper Image that he said gives him a reasonable estimate of his sobriety. The DUI fines and ignition interlocks are tough, but the automatic 10 days in jail is the biggest deterrent, he said. His law firm has an account with a cab company for discounted rides home. Discount Cab and Transtyle Limousine both say they have a number of corporate accounts that allow executives at those companies to get rides home rather than risk DUIs. Barcelona uses Transtyle to get its inebriated patrons home, with its Lincoln Town Cars and Cadillac Escalades lining up outside the Scottsdale club. Transtyle charges a $15 minimum charge for the first 5 miles from Barcelona and $3 for each additional mile. Fares for Discount Cab start with a $2.95 pickup fee, $1.80 per mile and 40 cents per minute. It ends up costing about $25 for a 10-mile ride home. "There's really no excuse to get in your car," said Pogue of Discount Cab. Then there are the surreptitious antics. One is depicted in Diageo's Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum TV ad, "Pizza." Two men leaving a pub duck into a pizza parlor and ask for home delivery - of the pie and themselves. That basic plot is true, say some bartenders and drinkers. A tale told by barkeepers but not verified: A patron will call for a tow truck, ride home with the driver as the car is towed, and submit an insurance claim that the car wouldn't start, thereby getting cost of the car and safe ride home covered. Groepler said it isn't always pretty getting inebriated patrons home. Hired designated drivers and cabbies say they encounter people so blitzed they don't recall their home addresses. Others have been known to expose their breasts to drivers or invite them into their homes, and more than a few get sick in the cars, drivers say. Earlier this month, a woman indignant about the car-service fee threatened to jump out of the vehicle as it sped down the freeway at 60 miles per hour, Groepler said. But those customers are the exception, he said. "There has definitely been an increase in business since the change in the DUI law," he said.
has anyone ever warn a '911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB' T shirt in an airport?? I wonder if that would get the 'Behavior Detection Officers' attention? As far as their zeal to give traffic tickets. fight em, it's easy. more people should fight their tickets. People are too submissive.
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm ha ha, Great site! I wonder if these pics would be considered a violation of the soon-to- be '1955'? ;-D (if the owner of that site sees this, welcome to 4um, start posting.
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
#2. To: Red Jones (#1)
my advice on new year's weekend if you live in phoenix area - just
#3. To: robnoel (#0)
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#4. To: Red Jones (#1)
my advice on new year's weekend if you live in phoenix area - just stay home. eliminates any DUI possibility.
#5. To: Red Jones (#1)
#6. To: robnoel (#0)
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#7. To: angle (#3)
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
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