[QUOTE=4bus;4229469Road side sobriety tests are not mandatory, no one ever passes and you do not have to take them. A road side Breathalyzer is also just there to incriminate you, the real one (and the only one that counts) is at the station. Don't do the road side Olympics, don't blow in a hand held.....don't tell them you had 2!!!
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If I'm correct refusing the roadside Breathalyzer test in Michigan gets you arrested and taken to a local hospital for a blood draw.

If you refuse to blow at the station, a warrant is issued for a blood test. Buys you more time but the penalties are stiffer.

While I have been pulled over or boarded a couple of times coming back into the CT River (once or twice by the CG with 10 to 20 clowns holding guns and an asshat at the 50 cal machine gun mounted on the bow!) and inside Long Island leaving a popular bar, but by far the most harassment I've encountered is at the ramp coming in. In 2013 EVERY SINGLE TIME I came into the ramp with the 46 Cig I had them strut over for a "safety inspection". This happened without exception with my boat at the OS boat ramp in 2013. I dont recall dealing with it on anyone else's boat that season, but mine was a big target last year! Talk about profiling... I don't know if they received too many complaints or if they were just down on funding for 2014, but it only happen once this season. I'm hoping I get the "safety check" even less next season...

Hopefully you will never have an emergency where your life or boat are in danger and need the so called "asshat" to come and save your ass.

Unless they are in a Helicopter most of the other guys on the boats are from Kansas and have not a clue how to handle a boat other than what they read in their little books.

Been Rescued by them 1 time it was not life endangering just kind of inconvenient.

Sometimes I wonder, man. It's too good of a place to leave though...

I have no problem being stopped for reasonable cause, but when they pull you over for absolutely no reason,10 to 20 of them on-board just hoping they have found a drunk driver, with just about everyone of them holding a rifle and an ASSHAT pointing a large cal machine gun at you... I'm sorry but that is just absolute BS! I'm a firm supporter of these guys in safety and law enforcement, until they start harassing, endangering, and/or threatening people. At that point the guy is (at a minimum) an ASSHAT!

I have been boating in the Sebago region for about 6 years now. Everything from kayaks to ski boats to the Sonic.
I've gotten stopped two times. The first was in a ski boat waiting for a lock to open, and all they wanted to see was that I had all my gear. The second was when I forgot to register the boat, and they let me go back to the house and find it because I was sure I registered it

I wasn;t successfully pulled over this season.... Though I was told that at BT, leaving the harbor springs card stop they lit me up at the end of the no wake zone. I never saw them, layed the throttle on the dash at the bouy, Was later told they chased for a mile and gave up.

I think they need a bigger faster boat.

I got popped late one afternoon leaving houseboat cove. We were camping two coves over so we wouldn't even have to pull the boat out. All the same legal rammifications as a DUI minus any affect on my drivers license, which is no longer the case. 2 year court supervision that is effectively like probation, classes, fines, court costs and fees. Can't own a fire arm for that period. They also tried to not allow me to drink at all for the 2 year period but we negotiated that off. Also banned from Clinton lake for life.

Sold the boat and moving out this state hopefully. Can't stand the idea of giving them any more money.