yes managed to pull my phone out of my pocket cuffed to text her and let her know I was being arrested. I was in the back of the police car when I did.
Jury of your peers indeed!
You should really tell your lawyer about you running your mouth about all this stuff on an easily-Googleable public message board, because the prosecutor will have a fucking field day with your statements about how you were mixing Xanax and booze, and especially your own timeline for when you consumed alcohol and went out to get more. All a prosecutor needs is a hunch about this and typing certain details into Google will bring this thread right up. (Alternately, someone who runs across it while Googling might possibly figure out the jurisdiction and decide to send it along, themselves.)
And what does that prove? Other than the fact that you are double jointed and apparently work in a circus.
Well, if Wal-Mart workers think you should be free to walk among us, who can argue against that?
AHHHHHHH!!! /smashes into enormous wall of text… cries out for a paragraph, or two! 
I’ve seen episodes of “Cops” where they pull out this vial with some liquid in it. They’ll put a substance in, what they think is cocaine or something, and if the liquid turns purple then that is cocaine. So maybe the Thai cops have something similar to test for speed in the pee pee.
I won’t even attempt to find out what the laws are like in Thailand.
Those testing kits for drugs work. The results are used for probable cause. But they are not even close to the accuracy of lab tests. So you can get arrested based on those tests but a conviction will be based on what the lab says.
Well then we all agree that getting a lawyer is your next step.
It doesn’t matter what the law actually says in Thailand, because the law is whatever the cop says it is.
At least it doesn’t snow.
It’s really not as bad as it sounds. They don’t bother foreigners too much, as they’re too busy shaking down Thai shopowners and the like.
I’ll explain where I was coming from with my question about transport/possess/sell versus “use.” I don’t know much/anything about the drug war other than what anyone knows from reading the news but I’ve read a lot about the history of the prohibition era. My understanding from that period was that generally if you’re caught transporting or selling alcohol you were in big trouble. If you had a private stockpile of alcohol that was also illegal in some states (but possession was never illegal through the Volstead Act), but unlikely to be detected unless you were caught.
However, just being found “drunk” didn’t result in you being convicted of violating the prohibition era laws against alcohol, it might result in spending a night in a cell to dry out. Obviously this was over 75 years ago now so a lot of things were different.
It looks like at least in New Jersey just using drugs can get you a disorderly charge, and that in Vermont evidence of illegal drug use can be considered circumstantial evidence in a charge of drug possession/transport. But I’m still under the impression the “big” charges on drugs are sales/possession/transport, and proof of use isn’t a slam dunk on any of those charges. I would imagine partly because the most it could prove is possession at some point, but how much possession? Usually the amount possessed significantly impacts the serious of the charge against someone.
The New Jersey statute isn’t much different than other states public intoxication statutes. Except here there is only a statute for drugs not for alcohol. You can be drunk in public.
My impression of the OP was it was going to be a one time post and it was so nonsensical I was 100% sure a good portion of it was totally inaccurate. Just out of curiosity sake, since it looks like he’s following up a little bit I’d be interested in knowing:
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You say your coworkers called the police to report you for drunk driving based on seeing you leave (I’m guessing Wal-Mart where you work) with a case of beer at 7:30. How do you know this happened?
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You claim the “true time you bought beer” was 8:45. If you work at a place that sells beer why would you buy it at 8:45 instead of around 7:30 when you left work?
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You say that a cop is following you as you leave Wal-Mart where you went at 8:45 am to buy beer, and that convinces you that they suspect you’re driving drunk (which you say you are not.) You floor it home, and when you get home you chug 1.5 beers in your car. Why did you do this instead of going inside?
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You say at 10:15 you blew .000 on the breathalyzer in the police station, you say that you left Wal-Mart around 8:45 with a case of beer and at least 10-15 minutes later chugged 1.5 beers in your driveway. How did you have a .000 BAC only 60-75 minutes after drinking 1.5 beers? I could see you being anywhere from .003 to .020 or so but .000 on the station machines is unlikely as they are very accurate and the timespan involved shouldn’t have been able to reduce BAC from drinking 1.5 drinks to .000.
I’m not sure how things work in Florida but in Texas, some Walmarts are in dry areas and can’t sell beer. Even in parts of Dallas, this is so. (Luckily not my part.)
Certainly possible. I was speculating perhaps he bought it at Wal-Mart where he works since he mentions driving to Wal-Mart to buy his beer at 8:45 and later mentions he works at Wal-Mart. It’s possible it’s a different Wal-Mart and the one he works at doesn’t sell beer. But if his coworker supposedly saw him walk out of the building with beer at 7:30 it would make more sense that he bought it where he works.
It’s also strange a coworker would make the assumption that someone buying beer = someone driving drunk. I buy beer all the time and it typically leads to me placing it in my refrigerator at home…some people apparently need to chug it in their driveway but to each their own.
One thing is for sure, from reading his posts I am sure that no lawyer would ever want to put him on the stand in his own defense.
Ah. To be honest, I didn’t read his post very clearly. I thought he’d said his neighbors called him in until your post made me reread the first few sentences. I don’t think anyone will blame me for missing certain details from it…