P plate drivers and 0 BAC

[Sapper]

Originally Posted by tasker1986

I have had the exact same thing happen to me and to be honest i was quiet offended when they did this but i also walked down the road (10min walk from where i was) on AFL grand final day and asked for a bretho at the cop shop, they persisted to say no and than finally giving me this reason. We can not provide you with a blood alcohol reading and on the basis that if your BAC is normal now and later on over the limit of our testing at the station you could legally proceed to take this further although it is unlikely you would win a courtcase it would raise questions onto why we didnt make you waite a further 30minutes for another test. In fairness i think its smart they didnt do it in the cop car. But when i was at the police station i had to sign a stat dec to say if i was pulled over etc i wouldnt use my previous reading against any other readings for that day. So i got my BAC reading and was wayyyy over and didnt drive in the end. But yeah its lliabillity reasons :

Agreed. I just spoke to a friend of mine who is a copper and he said that there is nothing wrong with asking for a test, just the cops don't like to do it because of the dickheads out there who try to use it against them.

Imagine a world without dickheads....