I had an awesome (full of awe) experience earlier this evening. I was playing Xbox COD and had just gotten in a great team party. I heard the loudest thunder that sounded like a tree fell ALMOST, but not quite on my house. My wife and I dive away from the windows. After it stops, I look outside and there is a truck that has slid off the road and into my yard. I grab some shoes and run outside. I meet the passenger first and he is a little shook up. Another car stops and we devise a plan for me to pull them with the VX two streets down to their house since they have two flat tires.
As I turn to go grab my isuzu, the driver falls out of the car and tells me he likes my Mello Yello shirt :?: The passenger says, "I told you I should have driven". They were both wearing golf clothes and look like they've done a few 'rounds' on the course. The driver of the other car comes over and tells the young 20s passenger that he needs to stay with the car and she would shuttle the drunken driver home.
Ok. They leave. I call a wrecker. My wife goes inside and calls the cops and informs them that the guy is intoxicated. So the kid is taking the fall for the 70 year old driver. Then I smell the booze on the kid and I ask him if he will be ok if/when cops show up? He says that he has more to lose than the driver. A minute later, the cops show up. The kid says the driver got "shook up and walked home". They ask him lots of questions and he admits they were drinking. They talk to my wife and me and we say he was drunk as a skunk.
Turns out the truck was registered to a business and not the individual driver, even though he was the business owner. After 20 or 30 minutes of the cops doing their thing (and the kid having no communication with the driver), the cops come over with a business card with the incident number on it. I heard the cop say, "When you get the truck towed home, give this card to your uncle and have him give it to his boss, since the company vehicle was involved in an accident. I am not going to go knocking on doors tonight, but make sure he gets that." The kid says, "I'm not going to jail for anything, right?" and The cop says, "No one is going to jail; I'm not going to go knocking on doors tonight."
The cop walks away just about the time a car pulls up behind the 4th police cruiser. I ask the kid if thats the old man come back? It is. The kid tries to wave him on, but the drunk stumbles out of the passenger side of his wife's car, walks over the kid and says, "Looks like someone busted out two tires!" The kid tells him to go home, everything is fine and if he stays, he might get arrested. The drunk turns and walks back to their car. The wife comes and gets the kid while the cops talk to the drunk in the wife's car. They all leave.
I'm left dealing with the tow truck driver and trying to tell him where they live. I ask the cop, how that guy just walked away and avoided a "Leaving the scene" and a DUI? They said "None of us saw him get out of the cab of that pick-up"
Blew my mind.
Moral of the story: If you don't make it all the way home from the bar in your vehicle, get out and walk; let someone more sober than you deal with the car!
As I turn to go grab my isuzu, the driver falls out of the car and tells me he likes my Mello Yello shirt :?: The passenger says, "I told you I should have driven". They were both wearing golf clothes and look like they've done a few 'rounds' on the course. The driver of the other car comes over and tells the young 20s passenger that he needs to stay with the car and she would shuttle the drunken driver home.
Ok. They leave. I call a wrecker. My wife goes inside and calls the cops and informs them that the guy is intoxicated. So the kid is taking the fall for the 70 year old driver. Then I smell the booze on the kid and I ask him if he will be ok if/when cops show up? He says that he has more to lose than the driver. A minute later, the cops show up. The kid says the driver got "shook up and walked home". They ask him lots of questions and he admits they were drinking. They talk to my wife and me and we say he was drunk as a skunk.
Turns out the truck was registered to a business and not the individual driver, even though he was the business owner. After 20 or 30 minutes of the cops doing their thing (and the kid having no communication with the driver), the cops come over with a business card with the incident number on it. I heard the cop say, "When you get the truck towed home, give this card to your uncle and have him give it to his boss, since the company vehicle was involved in an accident. I am not going to go knocking on doors tonight, but make sure he gets that." The kid says, "I'm not going to jail for anything, right?" and The cop says, "No one is going to jail; I'm not going to go knocking on doors tonight."
The cop walks away just about the time a car pulls up behind the 4th police cruiser. I ask the kid if thats the old man come back? It is. The kid tries to wave him on, but the drunk stumbles out of the passenger side of his wife's car, walks over the kid and says, "Looks like someone busted out two tires!" The kid tells him to go home, everything is fine and if he stays, he might get arrested. The drunk turns and walks back to their car. The wife comes and gets the kid while the cops talk to the drunk in the wife's car. They all leave.
I'm left dealing with the tow truck driver and trying to tell him where they live. I ask the cop, how that guy just walked away and avoided a "Leaving the scene" and a DUI? They said "None of us saw him get out of the cab of that pick-up"
Blew my mind.
Moral of the story: If you don't make it all the way home from the bar in your vehicle, get out and walk; let someone more sober than you deal with the car!
