Yes. This is perfectly legal and is common. The officer is looking for changes in the answer and possibly even the tone in which the answer is being given. If, while, answering the same the same over and over again, you become abnormally agitated, the office has cause for alarm. Having you speak often also gives more chances to smell your breath, slur your speach, and various other means of detecting substance influence.

Many, many times, alcoholics have said no. but, yes, you may not have been drinking alcohol, but don't fortget how drugs effect your driving also. repeated questions are there for a reason. to see your reaction and maybe catch a slur in your conversation. its not harassment, its for public safety.

Absolutely. As the other posters have stated, they are checking your response, because almost every drunk lies. They tend to lean quite close when they converse with you to smell your breath and clothing, as well as to see if there are any bottles in view inside your vehicle. They can be downright chatty while they look and sniff. Where I live, it is quite legal to pull someone over to check for alcohol and make you blow if they are unsatisfied. If you refuse to blow, your license will be suspended and you will receive the same number of demerit points as you would if you failed the breathalyzer test. Around the Christmas party time of year, in particular, the police will completely block some roads and inspect *every* vehicle. I have encountered this on two or three occasions. They establish the roadblock in a location that is visible only when you are close, to prevent people from turning off onto an alternate route. The driver thinks it is a traffic jam, which is not uncommon around that time of year in winter driving conditions. By the time you realize it is an inspection, you are trapped in traffic and carried along with the flow. Not a bad idea, to my way of thinking. One of the ones I was caught in was set up a couple of blocks from a location where a drunk driver had killed one pedestrian and injured a second a few days earlier. Idiots like that make life difficult for the rest of us.

If you call answering the same question a few times "harrassment," you might be a little too sensitive. If your driving or demeanor raised his suspicions that you were drinking while under the influence, he is allowed to investigate for as long as reasonably necessary to find you guilty of, or exonerate you, of committing a crime. He probably asked numerous times because most impaired drivers don't come out and say, "Yeah, I had a couple." Most of them initially lie and play down what they drank and how much. Like a prior poster said, he may have been sniffing for alcohol, smelled it in your passenger compartment (from passengers), or smelled cologne/perfume/smoke--all things used to cover up the odor of ethyl alcohol. If the cop was a jerk, call the station. If he just repeated a question a few times and checked your eyes (which it sounds like he did because he let you go), that's not repeated harrassment. If you have kids who are about to get busted for something you're not sure they did, you'll ask them the same question twenty times! :-)

Yep, crooks lie and forget their answers. Honest people know that the cop is just trying to do his job and dont mind answering a few questions.

It is legal. He was trying to catch you in a lie. I think he went too far asking you to take sobriety tests if there wasn't even any alcohol for him to smell or any probably cause, but it may still be his right. I'm not sure.

you call that harassment? wow, lighten up.. he's doing his job

That's America, buddy. Yes, the officer can detain you for as long as he feels it's necessary to convince him that you are sober. He could have hauled you into jail actually just on the suspicion alone and not had to feel too much concern unless you happen to be either connected to an influential person of the law, or have enough dough to be able to hire a good lawyer on retainer that could sue the police, but he'd have a hard time convincing a judge.

This is not harrassment. its well within the law to repeatedly ask the same questions. Drunk drivers are clever. This is one way for the officer to get close to a person to smell alcohol on their breath. Do not feel that you have been harrassed. this is just routine police procedure. at least you remember the officer asking you the same questions over and over. a drunk driver would never remember this. you passed the test. There is a reason and a need for it.

Yes it is. Police aren't vilolating your rights by asking the same question over and over. They heard every lie in the world from people to try to get around it. All the officer has to do is test you if he/she suspects intoxication or unusual behavior.

obviously you were pulled over for a reason. and no its not harassment. so what if you told him you werent, how many drunks get pulled over and are like "yeah im wasted i shouldnt be driving"? he did his job the way he should have.

yes it is legal maybe you should drink or smoke a little to lighten up do you think that ppl who break the law just admit yes office, I'm totally shit faced, suspend my Dl for a year and let me sit in jail like the others have said this is how ppl are caught in a lie maybe try prozac