You definitely did the right thing.

Ya have to do it.

I was bar tending a few years back and one of the tables in our little neighborhood beer joint was populated by loud, obnoxious rugby idiots and a nicely attired couple who, as it turned out, were the loudest, most obnoxious of the lot. When we asked that they quiet down a bit so the other patrons, all in relative proximity to these blowhards, might enjoy themselves, as well, the suit and dress shout me down. Fine. I should not the suit and dress came to the bar separately and were trashed on arrival.

They finish their last round of pitchers and stream out. The suit and dress are very drunk, so I note they might go ahead and have a seat, have some water, and wait for their buzz to become manageable. They rage about this and that tell me to shut up. They are parked right in front of the front door. They stagger out to their vehicle, get in, start the car, secure their seat belts, and then simultaneously pass out.

I relished calling cops on those dillwits. I had no choice, either. They clearly couldn't drive and they had already rebuffed my offers. If I had knocked on the window they might have driven off. Fuck em.

They both went away in cuffs, DUI, PI. Good riddance.

They stagger out to their vehicle, get in, start the car, secure their seat belts, and then simultaneously pass out.

Classic.

If the car keys were on the seat, they would not have been arrested.

You did right.

lemur68 wrote:I thought "stop snitchin'" was just a rapper thing.

The grand joke is that, far as I can see, above all else it's a police thing.

Tree wrote:

ubercat wrote:the drunk driving fuckhead will kill himself

He will not kill himself. I can almost assure you that he will not kill himself. I'm gonna go about 87% sure that he will kill somebody else first. They always kill somebody else.

True. Very true.

dontfeartheringo wrote:Now my name is shit in certain bars in town for being (and I kid you not about this) a "narc."

except, you are not a narc and here is why:

a "narc" is somebody who rats out someone involved in illegal narcotics. alcohol is legal. alcohol is the one drug (plus maybe tobacco/caffeine) that has been merrily endorsed by the establishment throughout all history except the probation years.

also, examine the fact that drunk drivers are the single most harmful and dangerous demographic of all drug users. and there's lots of them. when i talk about the war on drugs being messed up, and people say "oh, well what about heroin and hard drugs? don't you think those are problems?" i say "they don't cause the world as much harm as drunks, not nearly. and drinking is perfectly legal." they then say "but drinkers cause people harm through drunk driving, thats not legal." then i say "yes, and heroin/crack/etc users cause people harm through theft and violent crime, thats not legal either. the war on drugs deals with the legality of just using the substance."

sorry, but as someone who smokes a lot of weed and has done some other drugs, and never stole for it, and never drove badly because of it, and never got violent because of it, and still has had to look over my shoulder for the cops, i have little to no sympathy for the legal problems of drunk drivers, who are actually causing the world some harm. and they get to do their drug without any trouble from the cops until they start running people over. and i haven't even begun to examine notions such as the physiological dependence issues surrounding alcohol (issues that you'd think they might take into account when determining what drugs actually get targeted by the war on drugs).

btw, dude, you made the right call.

Redline wrote:

They stagger out to their vehicle, get in, start the car, secure their seat belts, and then simultaneously pass out.

Classic.

If the car keys were on the seat, they would not have been arrested.

Redline, I'm pretty sure you can't assume this to be true... there are various ways that the police can justify still arresting you - and this may also vary from state to state (within the USA).

Just an FYI, in case anyone finds themself too drunk to drive, and thinks they can just sleep it off in the car. If you are ever in this position, I would either sleep it off ANYWHERE EXCEPT inside the car, or if you've just gotta sleep in the car, I would first stash the keys somewhere a ridiculous distance away from both you and the car.

tmidgett wrote:I call 911 every time I see someone driving who is too out of it to control his or her car.

This happens several times a year.

If someone I knew was drunk behind the wheel, and I saw him, I would call the cops on him in a second.

You did them a favor as well as everybody else on the road. Anyone driving drunk deserves to get caught.

I've done this myself. If I see someone weaving, obviously impaired, I stay as far behind them as I can and call 911.

I'm not saying I've never driven while intoxicated. I've been lucky and not gotten into an accident, not hurt anyone and not hurt myself. I don't do that anymore, and haven't driven impaired in years. At the time, if someone had called the cops on me, I would have probably been pissed, but not anymore.

Anyone who drives while impaired and gets caught has no one to blame but themselves.

I've done so three or four times in my life, and without any hesitation.

First time was working at McDonald's, some Friday night in winter 1985. About 10pm, drunk guy orders at the drive-thru. I call over the manager to tell her, she hurries to the phone to call 911. Comes back and tells me to stall at the window until the cops show up. They can't do anything unless he's actually driving. So I tell him we're waiting on whatever his food was. Fortunately state highway patrol office is across the street, so they're there in a few minutes. I give him his food and let the cops deal with it.

So then some guy from the lobby observes all this, and comes to give me and Kathy shit about it, why don't we mind our own business blah blah blah. I told the guy "When I'm done here I've gotta drive four hours to Albuquerque, I don't need that guy on the road."

And really, what more justification do you need?

yeah there's not a problem in the world that can't be fixed by hiding in the shadows and calling a repressed homosexual with a tiny dick in a boy scout outfit to come sort it out.

I would NEVER call the police in any situation, ever. I don't give a fuck what is happening...either I'll ignore it if it ain't got shit to do with me or deal with it on my own if it does.
The fucking police becoming involved in any situation makes it worse in every way, the only thing they are interested in is making money of people's misery. That's it. I'm not interested in hooking the police up with anyone's money.

The situation you described.....go over and say 'Man, you guys looked real fucked up, I'm just warning you there's cops all over tonight...I just saw some people get pulled over up the street and he was giving them a sobriety test, they are all over the place pulling cars over tonight'
They would have not driven and even thanked you and thought 'what a cool guy'

Fuck the police. They are fucking pirates.
Any situation you may feel like you need to call them can and should be handled without them.