I understand that Australia do spot checks on drivers, whether they have committed a driving offence, or not, and breath test them… which I applaud. 
If we did that in the UK, people would be more cautious about drink driving & maybe save a few more lives.
A friend,who was driving home from Adelaide was stopped, but he had a Tracheostomy which meant he couldn’t blow, and that really confused the traffic police! They could tell he hadn’t been drinking so kindly let him continue his journey! 
It’s not too early like you alls fink…it’s me very late…maybe last even 
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Too many angels crying on too many tongues LOL!
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That is true most if not all states allow random breath testing something had to be done to reduce the road toll. It is a far cry from the days when I lived opposite a pub in the city and watched people crawl out on their hands and knees, get in their car and drive off.
It is even an offence now to drink alcohol while driving even if under the limit. That was very common until the 1990s it was something my friend and I (we carpooled) would do while we drove the 10 minutes to our work at a power station. In the 1980s being drunk was considered an illness. The bloke that first showed me how to run up a 50MW turbine was so drunk he couldn’t stand up without holding onto something. Nowadays at work if there is an “incident” the first thing they do is send the people involved for a drug and alcohol test. Times have very much changed.
This was afternoon shift in the control room of a 200MW coal fired power station in the early 1980s, what we were celebrating is lost in the mists of time. BTW if you look closely you can see two cans of Fosters from the days when it was an Australian brew (something it hasn’t been for decades) The white can is Tooheys Draught renamed Tooheys New some years ago.
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Thanks for all the info Bruce! I know from your videos that there are lots of open roads with little traffic in Australia but I suspect the roads around your cities & outskirts get busy, so I hope your drink driving rules help prevent many accidents.
No-one in their right mind drinks it here either, Bruce. 
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