"if i was the cop i would make him give a sample. refusal to answer surmounts to guilt"
What makes you think they have any right to make him "give a sample"? He is not under suspicion here, they are just stopping people and trying to establish probable cause of DUI, i.e. smelling for alcohol, observing impaired speech or movements, etc. They do not have the lega right to force him to explain anything nor is he under any obligation to. They have no right to detain him if there has been no evidence of a crime having been committed. They were simply slowing people down to allow themselves to pick up on possible evidence easier because they can't smell it or really see it if he drove past doing 50mph. Good for him and great advice for everyone, just STFU and don' talk yourself into a problem.

That's smart - I only asked because of your tendency to argue in absolutes. The fact that you've done it yourself tells me you do know that not all drivers who drink drive drunk - and it's the ones who don't that need to know how to handle a police encounter without hanging themselves out of nervousness, confusion, or ignorance of the law.

The 5th amendment is crap??? Oh, boy.

Oh who then the ogvernment? Are you for real. Did you just get off the boat from north korea? I will decide my limit and i will chose not to drive if i have had to much. I don't need to be told. It is called common sense. Which I can say the governments in both US and Canada have lost touch with.Most communist countries and if you are a iraqvet you know what it is like in the middle east(checkpoints), that is what is coming. You wait what you see is only the begining. Interent access restrictions are coming , does that sound like freeedom? No it sounds like communist china And really your on here commenting on drinking and your avatar is a booze bottle? nice

You know there's some room between sober and pissed, right? If it were illegal to drink AT ALL and drive, it would be one thing, but it's not. Cops need a REASON before they can do any testing, like smelling of alcohol, slurred speech, combative behavior - or an admission of alcohol consumption. He did nothing to warrant further checking - what part of the right to remain silent is troubling you? The police bank on people feeling the way you do - would you please watch the documentary I linked below? I am neither pro-drunk driving or anti-cop - I have been in both situations (a DUI when I was 18, and a checkpoint stop over 20 years later after ONE beer with dinner - in that instance, I answered honestly, was subjected to several sobriety tests, one of which I failed - ever try to walk a straight line heel-to-toe in high heels on gravel? That was enough for the cop to charge me, even though I blew a .01 on the breathalyzer. I was eventually found not guilty, but not before lawyer's fees and a 2 week suspension from my job as a postal carrier. If I had known enough not to answer, none of that would have happened.)

STILL think he's an ass hole.