Monday 17 August 2009

Drug driving

They showed the ad on Channel 4 just now, see e.g. here. According to the voiceover, the police can see whether a driver has been taking drugs, because taking opiates constricts your pupils and smoking cannabis dilates your pupils.

To cut a long story, a good way to avoid detection might be to take equal measures of opiates and cannabis.

What can possibly go wrong?

10 comments:

Witterings from Witney said...

That - God forbid - you see two policemen/cameras?

What can go wrong is either way - you get nicked!

Mark Wadsworth said...

Just shut one eye, that way you only see one again.

manwiddicombe said...

:(


The link doesn't work for me.

JuliaM said...

I foresee a booming industry in contact lenses!

Pavlov's Cat said...

So basically do your smack on a bright day and your grass on a dark night. simples

Paul said...

The police can also tell if you've been masturbating to animal porn - makes your eyebrows wiry.

Mark Wadsworth said...

CFF, my bad, fixed hopefully.

JuliaM, nice one, only my plan is probably more fun. Have you ever tried putting in contact lenses when you are high?

PC, you got that the wrong way round! But presumably if you were stoned enough, you'd get it the right way round purely by accident.

Paul, so when are they going to nick Alistair Darling?

manwiddicombe said...

The link is working now!

About the advert .. .. .. if you are in a 30 mph zone and travelling at the speed limit, and a police car also travelling at the speed limit passes you in the other direction then how the hell are the police going to be able to see your pupils from a closing speed of 60mph. At night. In the rain.

Have they been eating carrots?

Leg-iron said...

It does mean they'd need to know what your pupils look like normally, to determine if they were bigger or smaller than usual.

According to the optician, I have one pupil bigger than the other. Sort that one out, rozzers!

Gav said...

Don't your pupils get bigger at night?

So they will be pulling anyone that's young and fits the 'normal description' of someone that smokes cannabis, look at their pupils (which are big because it's dark), take them to the station to be tested, find that they have cannabis in their blood after smoking it 3 weeks ago and then fine them (despite the fact that the cannabis they smoked weeks ago isn't affecting their driving).