morsecode
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In this instance, I'm guessing the test results will not be good
YouTube - Funniest DUI EVER!! I PROMISE YOU WILL LAUGH!
YouTube - Funniest DUI EVER!! I PROMISE YOU WILL LAUGH!
Breathalyzer Follies
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USAF385
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Haha... oh boy.........
I admit to having driven while drunk once a few years back. Dumb. I was home on leave and at my girlfriend's place. We were drinking and I passed out on the couch for a while. I awoke at 3 am and decided it was time to go home. We live ten minutes apart... the ride took me 20. I was so paranoid that I was drunk and shouldn't be driving that I drove 25mph the whole way. Luckily nothing bad happened. I didn't even pass another person the entire way.
The experience of not feeling totally in control of the vehicle was enough for me to never do it again.
(I don't get drunk very often. I'm a beer drinker. I've NEVER gotten more than buzzed off beer. That night we hit the hard stuff......)
I admit to having driven while drunk once a few years back. Dumb. I was home on leave and at my girlfriend's place. We were drinking and I passed out on the couch for a while. I awoke at 3 am and decided it was time to go home. We live ten minutes apart... the ride took me 20. I was so paranoid that I was drunk and shouldn't be driving that I drove 25mph the whole way. Luckily nothing bad happened. I didn't even pass another person the entire way.
The experience of not feeling totally in control of the vehicle was enough for me to never do it again.
(I don't get drunk very often. I'm a beer drinker. I've NEVER gotten more than buzzed off beer. That night we hit the hard stuff......)
BarbC
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He only had two beers.
Be careful. I always thought that comments about coffee on the keyboard were just poetic descriptions intended to express that the commented-on post was funny. I understand now that there can occasionally be an actual physical threat to the well-being of one's computer.
Crazy K38
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no he's not drunk he has an equilibrium managment problem!
I guess (to me) the funniest part is why the officer thought it was necessary to put down another line in a parking lot full of them. I have administered the Field Sobriety Tests thousands of times over the past three decades and I almost never had a place that nice to do so.
Why didn't the cop use the ample, painted white lines already in that parking lot. Joe
Crazy K38
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because the cop was having too much fun dealing with drunk guys
DougE
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Let us not forget old Steve on the riding mower for those that haven't seen it.
YouTube - Steves Riding Lawn Mower DUI Arrest Video
YouTube - Steves Riding Lawn Mower DUI Arrest Video
bubbiesdad
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bubbiesdad
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I have an acquaintance who was a field (volunteer) deputy years ago. They picked up a drunk one night who blew a .41 on the breathalyzer.
Until the mid-1980's, my agency used the Breathalyzer 900A. The dial only went up to .40% BAC. Once I arrested a DUI that was OVER .40%. As near as I could tell after moving the needle back to the starting line (which was under.00%)., he was about a .43.
The highest BAC I ever got off a blood test was .46% (and this wasn't out of a crash, either).
The highest BAC I ever got off a blood test was .46% (and this wasn't out of a crash, either).
Crazy K38
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that guy must have been a professional drunk most people would be dead or VERY close to it was he functioning?
The .43 was walking and talking and only hit the fogline once.
The .46 was a Physical Control arrest (stopped in the roadway) and he was having a seizure... he left in an aid car (which is why I had the paramedic draw blood). That drunk was a real jerk. I later investigated a crash involving his wife. She had an epileptic seizure that according to the doctor, was probably caused by a head injury sustained in one of the beatings he gave her.
The .46 was a Physical Control arrest (stopped in the roadway) and he was having a seizure... he left in an aid car (which is why I had the paramedic draw blood). That drunk was a real jerk. I later investigated a crash involving his wife. She had an epileptic seizure that according to the doctor, was probably caused by a head injury sustained in one of the beatings he gave her.
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BarbC
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That guy was suffering from a lead deficiency.
Andy Griffith
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Isn't it just a comedian doing the lawnmower and other videos like that?
I do remember that there actually was a video of a drunk on a lawnmower getting arrested some years ago.
I do remember that there actually was a video of a drunk on a lawnmower getting arrested some years ago.
Personal experience, believe or not, it is absolutely true...
Was administering roadside sobriety tests to a guy whom I was fairly certain was under the influence based on his driving behaviors and my personal observations. Asked him to raise his right leg and count to 20, slowly. He was clearly unsteady thus I asked him to raise the other leg. Perhaps I should have been more specific but he raised his left leg while the right was still in the air. I swear!! The man hit the ground like he was shot; first words he spoke were: "Why did you hit me?" Obviously, he was locked up and blew plenty high though I forget the exact %.
In my LEO life I locked up more than my share of intoxicated drivers. Some stories were almost as outrageous as this one.
The best roadside indicator I found was "saying the alphabet." Not singing it; saying it. Intoxicated folks simply cannot do it. It was always my last test administered.
Be safe.
Was administering roadside sobriety tests to a guy whom I was fairly certain was under the influence based on his driving behaviors and my personal observations. Asked him to raise his right leg and count to 20, slowly. He was clearly unsteady thus I asked him to raise the other leg. Perhaps I should have been more specific but he raised his left leg while the right was still in the air. I swear!! The man hit the ground like he was shot; first words he spoke were: "Why did you hit me?" Obviously, he was locked up and blew plenty high though I forget the exact %.
In my LEO life I locked up more than my share of intoxicated drivers. Some stories were almost as outrageous as this one.
The best roadside indicator I found was "saying the alphabet." Not singing it; saying it. Intoxicated folks simply cannot do it. It was always my last test administered.
Be safe.
