Portable Breath Alcohol Tester

[guywhofishes]

Anybody own one? Seems like cheap insurance. Can anyone recommend make/model?

 

[svnmag]

Easy sense of false security and a real one is going to cost you. Much more to it than a few drinks at the bar and a PBT. In brief, I wouldn't be confident without four tests without drinking in an hour. One could save your job by allowing some more time for breakfast and coffee and more time and more time.

 

[guywhofishes]

dangit. you're probably right. Sigh.

I'll just keep guessing like I have the last 35 years.

 

[svnmag]

You do know you're getting a tune now, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxkpCe4Iv4

 

[guywhofishes]

Great album... Great song. Thought about this very song yesterday.

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quit switching! I posted Whiskey Man and had to change to flirtin!

 

[svnmag]

I believe I posted first when you didn't immediately respond to your tune announcement.

 

[guywhofishes]

right - you posted flirtin - I followed up with whiskey - then I see two whiskeys - maddening

 

[svnmag]

Anyways, it's sad about Danny Joe. Have you ever seen the KLOS live "Dreams I'll Never See"?!!

 

[guywhofishes]

anyway - I'm buying one now out of protest - it's on your conscience when I trust it and get burned

 

[svnmag]

right - you posted flirtin - I followed up with whiskey - then I see two whiskeys - maddening

Opposite

 

[guywhofishes]

don't make me burn this ##### down

 

[Tommyboy]

A buddy of mine bought one from Amazon. He uses it regularly and it seems to work. To get an accurate test, you have to not drink booze for at least 10 min. If I take a few sips on a beer and then hit it, its way over .08. Wait 10 min and drink a sip of water? Way below .08. What I am saying is there are a lot of variables. And it wouldn't hold up in court anyways. To get a unit calibrated is really spendy. He mentioned that he did a TON of research and said this is the ones the cops use, but the cops units are alot more expensive because the cops units are calibrated. Its fun to play around with nonetheless. We have used it after each beer and see how much your BAC goes up. It takes a couple to get going, but as you drink the 5-6-7-8 beer, your BAC really climbs fast.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026IBZSK/?tag=nodakangler10-20

I seemed to have missed alot when I was typing this...

 

[johnr]

We paid 100 bucks one way to take a cab from my buddies house in the hills just outside Sturgis to the Buffalo chip (5 miles) and another 110 bucks to get home after the kid Rock concert at 2 am. Best $210 a guy could spend. Not that I am a wealthy man, but that is cheap insurance right there. We drank, ate, smoked cigars, drank some more, likely sobered up after the 2 hour rain delay, but still would rather avoid a situation after making it this long with a clean record.

 

[guywhofishes]

A buddy of mine bought one from Amazon. He uses it regularly and it seems to work. To get an accurate test, you have to not drink booze for at least 10 min. If I take a few sips on a beer and then hit it, its way over .08. Wait 10 min and drink a sip of water? Way below .08. What I am saying is there are a lot of variables. And it wouldn't hold up in court anyways. To get a unit calibrated is really spendy. He mentioned that he did a TON of research and said this is the ones the cops use, but the cops units are alot more expensive because the cops units are calibrated. Its fun to play around with nonetheless. We have used it after each beer and see how much your BAC goes up. It takes a couple to get going, but as you drink the 5-6-7-8 beer, your BAC really climbs fast.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026IBZSK/?tag=nodakangler10-20

that's the one I am buying and getting arrested after using - to make svn feel guilty

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We paid 100 bucks one way to take a cab from my buddies house in the hills just outside Sturgis to the Buffalo chip (5 miles) and another 110 bucks to get home after the kid Rock concert at 2 am. Best $210 a guy could spend. Not that I am a wealthy man, but that is cheap insurance right there. We drank, ate, smoked cigars, drank some more, likely sobered up after the 2 hour rain delay, but still would rather avoid a situation after making it this long with a clean record.

I too have never been caught. ;:;rofl

But had you blown 0.06 after waiting a while you would have still cab'd it?

Not me... I have faith in technology unlike you cave people.

 

[Reprobait]

There are a bunch of them on amazon. Even key-ring size. I don't think i would really trust them though.

 

[johnr]

I fear change.. and technology

 

[svnmag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBzUZ1q7Vw

 

[Dad]

After using one a friend purchased, I realized I have a gift of low booze in my breath regardless of consumption. You can also learn ways to blow with more fresh air, less booze breath. My gift was confirmed once by game & fish on the Missouri river - .09 after long day on the river, luckily .1 is limit in a boat.....:;:thumbsup

 

[johnr]

I hear stuffing a copper penny up your ass works too, but a roll of them is recommended for better results, of coarse one at a time

 

[svnmag]

After using one a friend purchased, I realized I have a gift of low booze in my breath regardless of consumption. You can also learn ways to blow with more fresh air, less booze breath. My gift was confirmed once by game & fish on the Missouri river - .09 after long day on the river, luckily .1 is limit in a boat.....:;:thumbsup

Let me just say you got lucky friend for one reason or another. Not wanting to discuss the myriad of reasons. If you get escorted to the real deal in the shop you have four options: Refusal, refusal by trickery (used to be two attempts), drunk, under limit.

One thing I'll add is the officer observations led to the belief you'd come down by the time you got to the real machine. This ain't nothing to fuck with. No matter how alcohol is introduced in the bloodstream; the majority is deposited in the lungs and expelled in the breath. Your head can be perfectly clear of "cotton" and your lungs will eff you. You actually don't piss much out. Again, it's a dangerous game.