I like that I live in a remote area. Not that I drive drunk, but for my size, 1 big daddy at Hooters probably puts me near the legal limit, which 'by feel' is a lot lower than I though. I had to blow once after falling asleep and hitting a guard rail on my way from dinner and a couple beers at Applebees. Got tested for narcolepsy after that (second time I've hit a guardrail like that in 4 years), yeah... narcoleptic.

Anyway, 2 beers at Applebees and I blew an .06. I would have guessed .02 by how I felt (pretty much sober). Really made me think after times in the past where I felt somewhat buzzed, but assumed I was right around the limit.

 

i gotta agree with sine, sounds like a poor part of town, i know you could have gotten atleast a few decent cars. that or well to do people just dont drink.

 

Audi's are easier to drive drunk then Chevies

 

I'm pretty sure that's not it .

 

You have a slight point there.

This was done in the center of town (not an affluent part to be sure).

But in the 22 checkpoints that we've participated in (and there are 6 companies on the local PD rotation list). We rarely get European cars - not to say we don't it's just rarely that we do.

Last night we gat 21 cars - times that by 6 and that is approximately how many cars were pulled off the roads last night - mostly for driver's license and registration issues rather than actual DUI's.

In more affluent areas we'll maybe get 5 to 10.

 

That'd be "Chebbies" ... we get those around here too...

 

Intelligent people are far less likely to drive drunk than society's losers. They know the risks, and they care. And intelligent people are much more likely to drive imports, for better or worse.

A generalization? Sure, but we're all generalizing here a bit.

The overlap between Park Avenue and Attica State is mighty slim, although with people like Bernie Madoff running around you have to wonder if that should change...

 

I think it's not so much that intelligent people are less likely to drive drunk, it's that more educated and more wealthy people are less likely to drive drunk. Those are the ones that have something to lose. That's not a generalization, it's a statistic. Besides, intelligence doesn't keep someone from driving drunk...even a moron understands that there is a risk in their decision to do so. More likely, the decision not to comes from having something to lose and maybe moral obligation. I've known a lot of really intelligent people who drive drunk.

And if, in fact, it is more to do with intelligence than anything...how do we know that the smart ones don't just know how to drink and drive and get away with it?

Anyway...drinking and driving FTL.

 

just had an incident in my office...

a middle aged white man - clean cut, might be a forman on some oil rig or construction site near-by - came in to retrieve his 02 GMC Sierra (not from the afore mentioned checkpoint) from a DUI bust two days ago.

Wanted his wallet from his truck so he could pay for the tow. Our policy is to send my yard manager out to retrieve such items. Once he gets the wallet he looks inside and tells me that there was $700 in there when he was arrested.

As I tell everyone that make such claims - Sir, if there was $700 in the wallet when it was brought in - there will still be $700 in there now.

He just stares at me and turns and walks outside. A couple of minutes later in comes his wife - short, heavy and full of vinegar demanding to see the manager. I tell her that I am the guy she needs to talk to. She then proceeds to call us thieves and that she, herself, had seen the money in his wallet that day.

Again, I tell her the same thing - that I have complete confidence in my employees and they are paid well enough to ignore such temptation.

She goes on to justify her accusations by stating that economy is what it is and that no one is above such temptation. Again, I assured her that my men were above that and no one has missed a paycheck or missed any compensation due to them. Before she went on again, I added that I was not going to take this personal, being accused of theivery and all, but if she had any further concerns she could take it up with the law enforcement authority that called us out and if warranted could start an investitgation.

She insisted that someone under our employ stole the money and that she was definately going to start an investigation. With that I wished her the best of luck and she left in a huff.

Now mind you, I am pretty confident in my men, but not to be unprepared about 30 mins after she left I decided to go and review the yard footage and see if anyone had entered the vehicle. Better to be safe, right.

Just as I pulled up the files of the past three days - our camera footage records that last 45 days digitally on hard drive - we get a call asking for me.

It was the woman who had berated us earlier - totally shamed face - seemed her husband (who got the DUI) spent most of it on lottery ticktets and wanted to apologize, I guess he suddenly remembered when he got home that he didn't have $700 cash - but $700 worth of lottery scratchers in the cab of his truck.

That with a half empty whiskey bottle...

She was crying and I was sympathic and assured her that we don't take any of personal, but I was secretly relieved that my faith in my men was not unjustified.

so, the point of this story is no matter your economic status - fvck-ups come in all shapes and sizes - alcohol has no discriminating tastes

 

Impressive that she called you back. She should be applauded for that.
Goes to show that she thought she was telling the truth (not just trying to scam 700 bucks), and that she has a strong moral character... strong enough to admit she was wrong.
Her husband, however, is clearly an idiot.