February 17, 2009 - Police Checkpoint

When you leave El Progreso to return to Faith Home they have a police checkpoint that you must pass through. They set up cones in the road and make you weave around the cones to get through. They seem to change the setup from day to day. This forces the vehicles to slow down and the police can flag the ones down they want to check to pull over to the side of the road. The other night as were passing through the obstacle course set up by the police David Willis (our teammate) and Brad decided the obstacle course is really the police's way of efficiently checking for drunk drivers. If you knock one of the cones over you have had too much to drink. No need for them to give you a breath test or walk the line. You've already been busted. Maybe the police in the States could look into this. It sure takes a lot less man power.