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DWI...in the old days
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Another post here reminded me of a situation I found myself in the summer of 1979. Leaving a party in Cincinnati with my college buddies, one of the guys gave me a 6 pack of those little brown bottle PBR's to drink on the way home. As I drank them, I tossed the emptys on to the floor boards on the passenger side of my car. While driving North on I-75, 20 miles from home, I could go no farther. I was so tired! I pulled over on the berm of I-75 to nap for half an hour. Next thing I new, a spot light was on me! A Ohio State Patrol car had pulled up behind me! He strolled up to the drivers side window and asked me what was up. I told him I was so tired I couldn't go any farther and just needed a little nap. That's when he shown his flashlight on the 6 empty bottles laying on the floor on the passenger side. Uh-oh. He then asked if I had drank all those and I said I did. He asked if I was drunk and I said no. He asked me if I can drive okay and I said yes. He then said you can't stay parked here as it was dangerous and told me to go home.
I sped home 100% alert! They sure don't do that anymore!
I sped home 100% alert! They sure don't do that anymore!
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During my early Navy days in Corpus Christi a group of us were cruising the local scenes, in my red 1966 SS 396 Chevelle (cop/ticket magnet). One of the local police noticed us and pulled me over. When he walked up to the window I still had the open, half full, beer bottle in my hand. After a brief cordial exchange, he asked me if I wanted a ticket or did we want to pour our beers out on the ground. In my haste, I almost poured my beer on his shoes! No ticket and he let us go! [:D]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Today, they can?t make a judgment call even if they were so inclined. If they let someone continue, and that person wrecked and killed someone down the road, there would be serious implications.
Made sense at the time. [:D]
Its progress right...
Now a days they'd lose too much money if they let you go or gave you a ride home.
Yep, that's how it works, they take a direct hit to their commission. [;)] WTH-ever
6 previous convictions - in a 10 year period
He got reckless endangerment and involuntary homicide
The bar he was at served him 12 shots in a 3 hour period
When he ran a light at a 4 way intersection he hit a pedestrian and sideswiped another car before hitting the last car head on
They estimate he was doing 60+ in a 35 zone and never touched the brakes
He fled the scene on foot and was apprehended a few miles away hiding in a shed
He was over 3 times the legal limit and had an open bottle of beer in the car along with a few empties
The pedestrian lost a leg
Mike