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Checkpoints were pretty common 30-40 years ago when I was growing up in Odessa. They loved to set them up near the high schools on school days and weekends nights around town.

I got to the point I would make a turn or head the other way when I saw them and the line of cars waiting to get through. Once a cop chased me down and chewed me out and told me he could arrest me for evading or some such. I took the chewing out and after he looked at my license and did a visual inspection of the inside of my car from the outside, he told me to go on and next time I'll be arrested if I tried to avoid the checkpoint.

Real nice fella.