Breathalyser tests

[Alexandro]

Hi everyone,

Can you say: 'The police regularly organise breathalyser checks.'?

Thanks
Alexandro
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[Rinson]

Hi every one

Help me please, what is the meaning of breathalyser...

Thanks...

RG.

[Jamie (K)]

You blow into a balloon, and the police pass the air through a device that measures the amount of alcohol in your breath, and that determines your blood alcohol level and whether you are too drunk to drive, or if an underage person has been served alcohol.

I suppose now they have digital devices that don't require a balloon.

[Beeesneees]

I have a limited knowledge of breathalyzers, but know that the device has consisted of a pipe attached to a digital reader for many years. There has been no bag to blow into for a long time.
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[Alexandro]

Yes, Beeesneees, you're right. Nowadays, a breathalyzer consists of a pipe attached to a digital reader. It reads 'S' for safe and 'U' for unsafe. In our country you can refuse a breathalyser test, but in that case the police take you to the hospital where a doctor draws blood. So you cannot avoid it.
Thanks for answering, but was my sentence correct?
Alexandro.
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[Jamie (K)]

There's a question on my state's written driving exam that I always get wrong, because every three years I give a wildly exaggerated estimate as to the percentage of car accidents that involve alcohol. The real percentage is high, but not as high as I guess it is. The examiners tell me that the wrong answer indicates that I'm not a heavy drinker, because the alcoholics all supposedly get it right.

Likewise, I guess I don't know present-day breathalyzer technology because I haven't ever had occasion to meet a breathalyzer. I do know, however, that the devices used in the US actually give the person's blood alcohol level as a percentage, so we will say of a drunk driver, "He blew a 1.01," or whatever the number is. (Sometimes it's astonishingly high, and the driver should be dead, but he's still alive and operating a vehicle.)

Alexandro, your sentence is not wrong grammatically, but when you use the word "organize", it sounds to me as if the police are planning special events where they give the test to masses of people at the same time. In the town where I lived in Europe, the police would sometimes seal off the discotheque and give breathalyzer tests to all the underage girls and send them home if they had alcohol in their systems. That's what I would think of when you say they "organize" the tests.

If you want to say the police give the tests to individual drivers on a case-by-case basis, I'd say, "The police regularly administer breathalyser checks," or, "The police regularly perform breathalyser checks." Maybe the British would say something else.

[Alexandro]

Yes, Jamie(K) in my country the police reegularly plan special events where they test masses of people, especially during New Year's Eve.

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Alexandro
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