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> exactly identical to turning around at a DUI checkpoint.

Has anyone actually got in trouble for that? I turned around those checkpoints all the time because it's just faster to go around.

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Oh hell yes they do. At least on rural highways in the Southeastern US.

You don’t get in trouble just for turning around, I think its that turning around gets you pulled over and breathalyzed and you get in trouble for DUI. I realize this is kind of a classic “why worry if you have nothing to hide” argument, but everything is a balance and I’m ok with this intrusion to reduce DUI deaths. It is not equivalent to other privacy invasions.

Sometimes they pull over people Turing around

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