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I always like to joke, and I’ve all for years now, I call it affectionately a toaster. In West Virginia, we use a device called the Intoximeter EC/IR II. Sounds very fancy. If you look at a picture of it, it looks like a 1980s VCR, to show my age, but if you Google a VCR, and it has a hose out of it.
One of the fun questions I often get is, “Harley, how accurate are these breath machines in West Virginia?” I always like to joke, and I’ve all for years now, I call it affectionately a toaster.
In West Virginia, we use a device called the Intoximeter EC/IR II. Sounds very fancy.
If you look at a picture of it, it looks like a 1980s VCR, to show my age, but if you Google a VCR, and it has a hose out of it. Only eight states in the country use this device.
It is the nation’s cheapest. It comes off an assembly line in St.
Louis, Missouri, just like a toaster. Of course, West Virginia, we contract with the nation’s cheapest breath box provider.
But no, they are not God’s gift to alcohol forensic testing, although the government totally believes that they are. Give us a call if you need help.
We’re here, and we would like to help.