Technically they are obstructing traffic and unlawfully detaining drivers while interrogating them. Merely driving down a road is not probable cause to effect a traffic stop.

And, yes, people who don't care about the rights of lawful citizens do annoy me.

Amazingly, also, other countries with less enumerated rights can somehow even pull this off more efficiently than our cops can.

Innocent until proven otherwise, motherfucker. Don't stop me unless you actually have some kind of evidence I have broken the law.

This is the correct answer.

6 and 44 are both US Routes and they definitely love to set up checkpoints on em.

And the Commies.

Third door on the left.

>Ive also heard that if you are within 100 miles of an international border

The 100 miles things gives federal law enforcement authority they would not normally have unless authorized by the state.

This guy gets it. DUI checkpoints are a presumption of guilt.

I said they were capable, I didn't say they were willing. God forbid, though, they should be expected to do their jobs properly.

So, yeah, fuck them and their "prove you're not really a criminal" checkpoints.

My man. And if Mass isn't there, it's RI cops by the park-and-ride.

Cops are perfectly capable of catching reckless drivers without interrogating every single one.

'Tis the season for guilty until proven innocent.

>no Christmas or New Years showings

Yes, how dare they close so employees can spend holidays with their families.

Also, Massachusetts still has blue laws on the books, it may not even be legal for them to be open.

EDIT. I just checked and they are closed Christmas but not New Year's. And Blue Law closings apply to Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, just FYI.

Try a different branch then? They're not all like that.

Old enough to remember when fully uniformed state troopers gave driving tests.

Fuck qualified immunity.

Malicious prosecution should be grounds for a civil suit. At the very least you deserve reimbursement for your legal fees.

Frozen bridges make everyone drive like Ted Kennedy.

Google tells me there is one by the same name in Chicago too.

https://www.southshorehospital.com/

I agree, especially when it's implemented this way. I'm starting to see some vehicles again that use amber lights instead.

That would be the fault of Daytime Running Lamps. Makes people forget their lights aren't on properly.

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

• C. S. Lewis

Sounds like I was a few years too early to have her then. But that's still pretty wild!

Good lord, I think it was for my 8th or 9th birthday, so this would have been in the early-mid 90s.

>Shit, I am still salty I can't have fudge-y the whale from Carvel.

Mr. Peeper's in Swansea can recreate that for you. Their Bittersweet Ecstasy cake is pretty close.