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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Southerners Get Some Checkpoint Relief

DUI crackdowns in North Fresno? NOW, we're upset.

For far too long, the drunk drivers in North Fresno have been ignored. Every weekend there's a checkpoint in central Fresno or Downtown, Tower District, Southwest, West Shaw, but never North of Herndon. How could all those affluent white people be driving drunk? Nobody's ever left Campania's sauced, right?

Party's over Northerners, you are being watched.

The Fresno Bee reported Wednesday that the Fresno P.D. recently conducted a sting at the popular North Fresno bar The Dirty Olive. An undercover Po' Po' would hang-out in the bar and follow drunks (in the officer's opinion) outside and watch them get into their cars. He would then LET THEM drive off drunk as he alerted his fellow officers what car they should pull over.

This has been all the talk around town today - somehow I don't think it would be if the sting was conducted from a strip club or a Mexican bar. But, since it was a Northerner bar, everybody's pissed.

I don't agree with this new Fresno P.D. method. It's an obvious cash grab. If they were really concerned about drunks getting behind the wheel, they would stop them before they drove off - but that wouldn't get them the $800 bones they charge for impounding a drunk drivers car.

I DO agree with them finally taking their nation leading drunk driving stings to North Fresno. It's time they too were afraid to have a couple beers with their dinner - just like us Southerners.

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