Kentucky will pay you to drink alcohol for police to practice field sobriety tests

Can you make belligerent remarks to the recruits while drinking?

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"regulated amounts of alcohol"

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I did this in shreveport. Didnt get paid. But i got 15 whiskey drinks for free

Arkansas does this as well, and has for years FTR.

I don't think it's THAT uncommon and I wouldn't be surprised if there was somewhere in LA that did this same thing.

I did something like this when I was in college, except for free. And they let us leave. After it was all over we drove to a friend's camp on Belle River.

A state trooper made me 8 screwdrivers that I consumed over a 2 hour period. I then did a couple of field sobriety tests. The "eye" test was relatively new and the local cops were being trained on it. I passed every coordination test. One cop questioned my eye gaze reaction, but wrote it off because I wore contact lenses.

Here was the scary part: I blew a 0.141. At that time, 0.10 was the legal limit. It was a wake up call for me as to how little it took to be above the legal limit. I talked with the trooper about it and told him that not only did I not think I was drunk, but that if I was out in a bar at closing time I would offer to drive for a friend who was drunk. He assured me that his machine was properly calibrated and that legally, I was drunk and would be arrested if I was driving, stopped and tested.

Here's the amazing part, and take into account this happened over 30 years ago, he told me that while I exceeded the legal BAC, I did not appear to be very impaired. He said I don't want you to think I'm suggesting you drink and drive, but if you've had a couple of beers and get stopped for something, just answer the police officer's questions, be courteous, don't talk too much and they'll probably never want to do a sobriety test.

The moral of the story is that you don't have to drink that much to blow a 0.1 and even less to blow a 0.08.

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15 whiskey drinks for free

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Over how long? Our trooper had a maximum he could give each participate, based on weight and, possibly, drinking habits.

Oh boy, Louisiana alcoholics to start invading.

I think it was 2 hours. One shot per drink. They told the recruits that half of us were drunk and half werent and they had to do field sobriety on us and figure out which ones had been drinking. In reality, all of us were drinking for 2 hrs straight. About 1/2 thought I was drunk. I blew a .09

They were in little chickenshit 8oz cups and he was using a jigger to measure the booze. It was no more than 12oz of vodka, and might have only been 10oz, over two hours and I was about 200 lbs and a regular drinker.

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I blew a .09

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My liver is impressed by your liver!