Wouldn't it be nice

[indescribability]

If pubs and bars kept breathalizers on hand? They could charge a dollar or two per use and begin turning a profit on it rather quickly. I know I'd probably use it twice per visit.

[indescribability]

appearantly I'm the only one that would use a bar breathalizer :confused:

[fitzy21]

like a real breathalyzer that a cop uses or one of the machines that you blow into a straw to get it?

i've seen a few bars up in canada with a machine that you just take a clean straw, put in 50 cents and blow and it gives you a result...

[indescribability]

I know the breathalizer they bring to my house arrest when they check on me all the time uses nothing more than a piece of thick plastic that resembles a short straw. But either way if the results are accurate, it'd be nice to have around. Looks like Canada has done something right.

[fitzy21]

yea, the bartenders there said it was pretty accurate, but sometimes it gave random results, so you paid more money. but it uses a regular drinking straw, the long skinny one. but yea, acts as the same way.

but compared to an actual breathalyzer administered by a cop, i don't know how it compares.

but yea, me and my friends spent a few bucks on using it to see how drunk we were at the end of the night. though, we always go out with DD, but still fun to see what the results were.

[indescribability]

yea, the bartenders there said it was pretty accurate, but sometimes it gave random results, so you paid more money. but it uses a regular drinking straw, the long skinny one. but yea, acts as the same way.

but compared to an actual breathalyzer administered by a cop, i don't know how it compares.

but yea, me and my friends spent a few bucks on using it to see how drunk we were at the end of the night. though, we always go out with DD, but still fun to see what the results were.
it'd just be nice for future reference. I worry about driving after even a couple beers even though I know I can because I don't know what will put me over the legal limit. after enough nights of drinking and blowing in that every so often you'd get a pretty good idea

[fitzy21]

yea true. its a lot different having one at your hometown bar as opposed to using one up in montreal which requires a few hours worth of driving for us. if there was one at the bar near my school, that be really great. cuz the cops around here love to harass us if they know we've just gotten out of the bar..

[warmhandedcanadian]

When I was about 22 I used one at the bar... I was drunk-ish but "good" to drive. It gave me a warning "Please Don't Drive"

what an eye-opener! at that time I always drove like that. tsk.

[indescribability]

I think america should mandate that bars collect car keys and require breathalizer tests to get them back. That'd cut down on drunk drivers tremendously.

[hippychickmommy]

Not a bar kind of girl...I could count on one hand how many times I've been to a bar!

But I think you've got a good idea there about the breathalizers in bars cutting down on drunk drivers. My brother-in-law (he's 22) got a DUI several months back. Had his car impounded, no longer has one because they trashed it. Nobody got hurt, but I still want to wring his neck! Stupid kid! I love him but, ugghh!

Sorry. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

[HippyLove]

in the magazine they had on the plane you get buy a personal breathalizer thing. it looked like one of those ear thermometers though.