Marsupialized wrote:I would NEVER call the police in any situation, ever.

Yes, we know.

lemur68 wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:I would NEVER call the police in any situation, ever.

Yes, we know.

I just wanna stress that.
I cannot for the life of me get into the head of someone who would.
Cops are the enemy, they are the bad guys.

Marsupialized wrote:I would NEVER call the police in any situation, ever. 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.

When I was younger, I did not feel this way... But after some of the things I have seen the police put me and my friends through in the past few yers, I feel almost exactly the same way as Marsoup.

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.

I would have done something similar, especially if I could have just driven them home... If they still wanted to drive around, then you can move on with a clean conscience for having done due diligence in the situation.

I have been hit by a drunk driver who was passed out at the wheel (and still going 70mph) when his 1970 3/4 ton cargo van hit out 1980 VW Rabbit from behind while we were stopped at a light.

Also, I have been picked up for DUI... by a cop looking to write a fat ticket. I blew a .086 on a roadside (.085 is the current limit in IL, and .10 was the limit during until the early 90s and still is in many States).

I blew .093 on the official test in the police station before correcting the idiot trooper's spelling more than once on the towing service I requested. I was completely coherent and not slurring or glassy-eyed. My Mother had to drive out to get me, and she said she couldn't tell that I had even a drop.

But they scored a grand or so, and the lawyer gor a couple grand, and the MANDATORY counselors got at least $400-500 when the assessments and classes were all said and done...

Yeah, they save lives when they get the fucked up people off the road, but it's also a big money grab.

2nd Rick wrote:Yeah, they save lives when they get the fucked up people off the road, but it's also a big money grab.

And the collateral damage is worth keeping that cash out of the cops' hands, yeah?

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:You called the cops on someone in a situation where you were neither the victim of a crime nor in immediate danger.

By definition (i.e., as supplied by the excellent Urban Dictionary), you are a narc.

You used Urban Dictionary as a source.

You called the cops on someone in a situation where you were neither the victim of a crime nor in immediate danger.

By definition (i.e., as supplied by the excellent Urban Dictionary), you are a narc.

P.S. I used the excellent Urban Dictionary as a source.

You actually think the cops save people's lives with their illegal fucking checkpoints and retardedly low blood alcohol limit shit?
Horseshit. Total and complete horseshit.

Their fucked up system is set up to squeeze money out of a huge percentage of the population that they otherwise wouldn't be able to squeeze money from...law abiding citizens. Normal people.

I don't know about you but pretty much everyone I know who's had a DUI is not a hardcore drunk who habitualy drunk drives during the middle of the day.
Every single one is a regular decent person went out one night and had a few beers and A: was busted after midnight and B: wasn't anywhere near too drunk to drive home just fine

People can have a few beers and drive home at 1 in the morning on a Friday night with no problems, it's fucking stupid to think they can't. Millions of people do it every weekend.
You can't baby safe the entire fucking world because a few assholes.
Bust those few assholes when they fuck up.
The laws are REALLY strict if you hurt of kill someone while drunk driving. That's good enough for me. I make damn sure not to hurt or kill anyone if I'm driving home after drinking a few beers.
Busting the harmless uncles driving home after from a wedding, who maybe had 4 beers....what's the good in that? What's the good?

If I could I would slit their throats myself rather than call the police, but I have no balls.

Well, didn't mean to start a thread and then disappear for the entire day.

I sorta expected you to say that, Marsupialized. that's why I put an option up there with you in mind.

There's more news, btw.

The guy, my friend, who I did NOT know had prior trouble with the police thanks for asking, was ironically enough, running from an 8 year old DUI arrest of his own, which he had done his best to ignore for all these years.

SO, he got thrown in the tank and told, since he was a flight risk, that he could wait in jail for 30 days for his trial or plead guilty and get out that day, but he would have to take the sentence that the judge gave him.

He got two years of probation. There are probation fees in our fair state, something like $3500 a year. He also has about $1500 in legal fees. (I heard this all from someone else.)

He's boiling over with hatred for me right now.

But, y'know, if I had KNOWN that they were going to drive away , I would have run down there and beat on their window. I honestly thought they were going to sit in the truck and cool off for a minute before they did anything. They were ABSOLUTELY in no shape to drive. They weren't going to blow just a couple of points over the legal limit, they were falling down, passing out, an hour from pissing themselves drunk. SO, fuck it, I'd call the cops again.

Sucks for him... but I look at is this way:

I tried to talk to him when he was on his way to the car.

I called the cops because I thought he might get in an accident on the way home and get maimed/killed/whatever.

I OFFERED TO THROW HIM SOME MONEY FOR LEGAL FEES.

And I'M THE ASSHOLE?

I'm not the one who got the first DUI. I'm not the one who thought he could stay ahead of jumping bail IN THE SAME TOWN where he was arrested before. I'm not the one who thought it was a cracking good idea to jump into a car with a guy who was falling down drunk.

My dad called today- the same guy who I was talking about in the Evel Knievel thread. I told him about the whole sorry mess, and he said "Son, I am going to tell you the same thing my dad told me when I accepted my commission and get shipped off with the Air Force: Always do the right thing. You'll get in the same amount of trouble, but you'll sleep well at night. Also, never forget: Drunk drivers kill people. I don't know what kind of folks you're hanging out with who think that's ok."

Right, then.

The old man and I, we had some rocky times, but now that we've gotten it sorted out, I am glad he's around.

Thanks for your support, most of you. Today was kind of stressful, what with all of that drama still kind of swirling. But I suspect that it will blow over soon. Fucking drama.

I think you know deep down inside it was a bad move.