California roadside smog checkpoints

aeromech

This is just unbelieveable. The California BAR (Bureau of Automotive Repair) is using roadside checkpoints to inspect vehicles. They are being assisted by the CHP. Apparently it's a voluntary check but my guess is that the voluntary part isn't advertised at the checkpoint. Looks like another excuse to remove our freedoms.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=983048

A chp officer waved me down and told to me to pull to the side. The bar agent told me to open the trunk and I refused, I was then thrown down on the ground and handcuffed, all the while I was refusing the consent to search.

I didn't get search, but I was forced to wait in the cruiser for 15 minutes, I was demanding constantly if I was free to go. Then I was released after I refused to participate in the smog test.

I was released , and now I'm sitting in my car at my workplace still shaken up.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/routine-smog-checkpoints-impede-california-roads/

CALIFORNIA — Checkpoints are becoming part of the scenery in many parts of the country. Excuses for blocking roads range from catching drunks, to finding drugs, to catching illegal immigrants, to just simply making people show their papers in order to continue down the road. In California, they employ daily checkpoints to catch polluters

Things have gotten way out of control and our law enforcement needs to be reigned in some.
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KTPhil · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:59 am Post subject:

Sorry, but I'll need to see more than a gun lobby login site to believe this story...

Brian · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:02 pm Post subject:

sounds like something California would do.

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ALLWAGONS · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:32 pm Post subject:

I hope it is NOT true, but if it is, we have no one to thanks but the Eco-Chic green people. But nonetheless, a good way to stop gross polluters.
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KTPhil · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:56 pm Post subject:

The truth is a little less exciting:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23219778/surprise-bay-area-drivers-have-cars-examined-at

aeromech · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:15 pm Post subject:

"They certainly don't make it seem like it's voluntary. There were no warning markers. Nothing like that at all. It just seemed intimidating," said Mark Cutino of Brentwood.
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Erik G · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:23 pm Post subject:

theyve been doing it for years. You didnt have to stop, they put sniffers on freeway onramps and measuer as you go by. I've been gone from CA for 5 years, they were doing it a couple years before I left. It took a pic of your license plate and mailed you if you were a gross polluter

VOLKSWAGNUT · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:49 pm Post subject:

The hell with California..
Nothing more than a buncha shrub huggin' hippie crap out there.... trying to save the environment one catalytic convertor at a time. Laughing

Good luck with that.. Wink

By the way...thanks for polluting the air for all the states East of you.. . Laughing

Just curious...
How many of those Smog Cops out there on the West Coast are sitting around in thier cruisers idling on the phone ?

That issue is rapant everywhere... Mad

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Spezialist · Banned Joined: July 01, 2005 Posts: 1941

My grandpa (RIP) got a ticket in 1972 for a smoky 1957 chevy pickup, so what.
You think you have a right to pollute or something? Only Owens Corning gets to do that bucko!
When I lived in santa clara ca that factory would dump all the scrubbed garbage out right at 5 pm every afternoon, and there was nothing anyone could do. I am sure nothing has changed. But hey go ahead blame the greens or whatever you call them. My shop had a new crop dead insects and birds every day because of that superfund factory that makes insulation.
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ALLWAGONS · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:56 pm Post subject:

I got nothing to worry

except my freshly smogged '99 suburban ALL my cars are EXEMPT!
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16CVs · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:47 pm Post subject:

Just because cars are exempt does not mean that you can modify them. Technically you can not modify the emissions or induction system of any vehicle.

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vdubyah73 · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:12 am Post subject:

I love living in Texas.
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babysnakes · Samba Member Joined: August 19, 2008 Posts: 7106

No emission testing here in Fla., they stopped that something like 15 years ago. Thank you gulf and ocean breezes that just blow all the bad stuff out to the fish. I would be weird to have road side tests like that. And as far as the recycling comment above, every city I have lived in down here provides one container for paper goods and one for plastic, glass and metal with curb side pick up.

aeromech · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:52 pm Post subject:

every city I have lived in down here provides one container

Good thing because I'll bet there's A LOT of aluminum cans in yours Laughing

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c21darrel · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:50 pm Post subject:

I was pulled over at one of those check points, at the time, not sure if it was voluntary or not. The CHP just guided me in. They did the sniff test and my 98 4-Runner didnt pass. One year previous the catalytic converters had been sazalled off and stolen (popular in Calif as the precious metals inside were very valuable) in my work parking lot. I replaced with the cheapest available, about $80 each. Im pretty sure this is why i did not pass the smog test, and still dont. So now instead of being tested every other year I have had to get smogged every year since. Shenanagins.
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aeromech · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:15 pm Post subject:

I used to have a 1991 Toyota 4x4 pickup and the same thing happened. I walked up to my truck in the company (guarded) parking lot and wondered where all that misc. hardware on the ground came from. As soon as I started the truck I knew the answer.

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