The "green" way to get arrested

[Engels]

Edit: nm :)

[Strazos]

The whole 5th amendment thing...this includes giving evidence to convict yourself of a charge, yes?

Anyway, field tests are BS, especially that backwards alphabet and one-foot nonsense. I can never do the alphabet backwards, and could fail the foot stuff just from being tired, who knows.

[CmdrSlack]

At one of my brother's mandatory fraternity meetings at the University of Florida (A very well-known party school) on drinking and driving, the fraternity advised him to refuse all breathalizer tests and field sobriety tests. He may lose his license for a year, but he gets no mark on his record for a DUI. Apparently, he says it is much, much harder to convict someone of drinking and driving if you don't have any hard evidence other than the officer's remark that the suspect appeared to be drunk.

Dangerous advice to throw around in some states. In Illinois, refusal to take a breathalizer or blood test is considered an admission of guilt, and thus an instant DUI.

At least it was when I was in college, it may be different now. They did not have field breathlizers back then though.

A refusal isn't an admission in Illinois, but it'll get your licensed yanked for 6 months. They can admit your refusal as evidence at a DUI hearing, but in and of itself, it's not complete proof of a DUI. The best advice is still to just not drive if you've been drinking.

[Samwise]

I was Risk Manager of my fraternity

Hey, same here!  /highfive  Although my duties primarily consisted of loudly saying "DON'T GIVE ALCOHOL TO TEENAGERS FFS" before each party.