DUI Checkpoint Tonight RT 44 Coventry

On the way home from Coventry Lake tonight my wife and I ran into a multi town DUI check point on RT44 in front of Highland Park Market.
Cruisers from Enfield, Windsor,Manchester and Coventry.
Looked like they were there for the night.

Just thought I'd pass it along.

I would totally pay $$ to see the look on the face of the approaching officer in this scenario:

Officer: "Sir, have you had anything to drink tonight?"

Tall 1: (in his loudest and deepest voice) "FI FI FO FUM! I just drank a bottle of RUM!"



I left Kapt's one night (had 2 beers) and drove home through South Windsor, and into Ellington. They both had checkpoints that night, and I got to perform twice! They could have at least radioed SW and verified my claim to save us both time. Oh well..

They'd need at least 3 sets of handcuffs if they were gonna take him in ! Just for the "wingspan" alone.

I've been thru a dozen of them on the way home from work ,since last yr. Sometimes they( the police) just look at the scrubs and don't even bother asking any questions. Good for me! I can load up for fishing for early morning!!

A friend went through it on the way home from work. Said a bunch of cars on the side of the road. Hopefully someday people will learn. I learned to let my wife drive home or just stay home

Bridgeport Police were busy on parts of upper Main Street yesterday evening and last night. Saw a few people get pulled over while I was out. There's been lots of partying going on around the area recently and have heard reports of fights at bars and nightclubs between customers and customers and owners.

Last weekend I passed one getting set up on my way to the Legion Hall in East Haddam. Everybody there knew they were out and knew where not to go when they left. My son got totally loaded and I had to make sure he wasn't driving before I left. It was my kids stag party. I got stopped when I left but I wasn't drinking....too much.

IMHO, I hope they catch and lock up as many as these stupid drunk douche a$$es as possible...

We need a few of those BUI checkpoints to stop drunk boaters too.......................(under no circumstances am I refering to one particular popular CTF member)

Looks to me like the cap is on that bottle...

Typical for JFM, he was too drunk to notice. It is amazing that he was even able to stand up!

I second that!!!

Lets not warn people where these check points are. The worst thing you can do for a drunk driver is to let them continue driving around drunk.

After they kill someone or hurt themselves then the will realize that they would have been better off getting caught by the police.. Because, guess what? if you hurt someone else.(or yourself) you're getting pinched for a DUI anyway.. So you may as well get pinched before you hurt somone.

I agree.
Here's a dashcam of me evading a checkpoint after more than 2 beers at Kapt's. No worries, it looked worse than it really was. The car buffed right out.

Wow.......

Designated driver! Safe-rides! Taxi!

That had to leave a mark!

That was downright impressive. He had to be 15 feet up.

You my friend, get the WiseAss of the year award.
I'm sitting here cracking up, because I do have a visual of this
scenario running through my head.

Where did the driver land?

Office, honester, I'm not under the affluence of incohol! Besides, nobody was driving anyway. We wuz all in the back seat singing.

The highschool in my town sends out notices to all the kids and parents what day the state police drug dogs will be searching lockers and they still grab several kids everytime for drugs!!!!

When I use to tow my boat to Norwalk late at night all the time I would go thru check points in Richfield, Wilton and Norwalk. Never did I get stopped and talked to. If you go out drinking just tow your boat they will get out of the way and wave you right thru.

They aren't the sharpest pencils in the pencil box