My favorite comment:

Pilots, train conductors/engineers, ship captains, bus drivers, should have to blow in a Breathalyzer before every trip the make with passengers aboard

Doctors should

So is that next? The repeat offenders will have to blow into the tube before the engines will start? Awesome!!

Politicians should. ;)

And judges.

Anyone on public assistance should!

What?

Being a flight attendant, you should know many of them require government assistance just to get by. So by virtue of not having a lucrative career, they should not be allowed to have a drink every once in a while? How asinine is that?

Yes, lets strip away simple life pleasures because someone is poor. Great idea.

You should volunteer most of your paycheck so those who haven't earned it can enjoy the same luxuries.

No, its simple. Show up for government assistance, no drinking 8 hours before, and a BAC .04 or lower. Now how does that strip away lifes simple pleasures?

Further there is evidence that poverty and alcohol use are linked.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20498603

Sooooo, ya. Cary on ;)

OOPS, I thought we were talking about drug testing! :o

Carry on....

<yawn>

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I do volunteer ny time and money for causes I believe in. Thanks

Drugs are bad, mmmmmmmmmkaaayyyy

Anyone on welfare should be drug tested...fail and no more handouts. Just like my job (except I have to go to work sometimes).

Yes it does. Flying is a privilege, not a constitutional right, or any other kind of right.

And it's a tough spot because a legit due process refusal to testing may save you from a criminal conviction, but at the same time give the FAA grounds to revoke your tickets.

Comply with the testing to save your tickets, and you might give LE all the ammo they need to convict! Tough call.

Better just to not show up drunk (then the blood test should be safe enough if they ask for it).

Agreed.. be sober.. but, if you are singled out for some reason, go slow... me personally, criminal trumps faa action. But my personal situation is much different.

I do not trust labs and I do not trust breathalyzers.

Well I agree with you Rick about not showing up drunk. The point I was making is that you have the right to counsel (an attorney), BEFORE making any statement or answering any question-if you are suspected of committing a crime. You're not refusing to take any test-just exercising your rights. It's all legal posturing, but it might buy you a couple of extra hours, which might make the difference (legally). Get what I'm sayin?

^^^^exactly^^^^

Let's face it, if there was any group entitled to day drinking it's the public assistance crowd.

If you're going to stall on testing, there's probably a fine line, better get skilled legal advice from an aviation attorney in advance. If your stalling is deemed refusal by the FAA your tickets are toast.

As I said before, it's a tough situation. If you get the criminal conviction, your job and career are in serious jeopardy anyway, but it's your first time you'll probably keep your tickets and be able to get another aviation job. HIMS can even get your old job back.

Only way to win this game is to not play.

Yeah!!! ** the poor and downtrodden. Single mothers, working poor, bankrupt due to medical bills, etc. screw those lazy **

This idea that the majority of public assistance recipients are just lazy people who don't want to work is so incredibly ignorant and uninformed. Oh, and also proven to be untrue. But who cares about actual facts though....am I right?