Scared Sober: LAPD Plan­ning at Least 2 DUI Check­points this Hal­loween Week­end. The Los Ange­les Police Depart­ment wants to remind rev­el­ers this Hal­loweek­end that there are few things scarier than drunk dri­vers. In addi­tion to issu­ing a reminder about ways to stay safe while cel­e­brat­ing, they will be oper­at­ing at least two DUI check­points this week­end. [LAist]

I can remem­ber when author­i­tar­ian gov­ern­ments that set up inter­nal check­points of heav­ily armed police were one of those scarier things–they were shown that way in movies set in the Third Reich and Soviet Union, at least. Of course, that was back in the 1980s when peo­ple were afraid of being con­quered by the Soviet Union. They should have been more afraid that the coun­try would vol­un­tar­ily turn itself into the Soviet Union.