DUI: North Carolina Style!

Erik

Erik

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My buddy sent me this and I figured it was worth posting. Sorry if its a repost

DUI - NORTH CAROLINA STYLE

Only a person in North Carolina could think of this.

From Catawba County where drunk driving is considered a sport, comes this
true story.

Recently a routine police patrol parked a car outside a bar in Hickory,
North Carolina. After last call the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so
apparently intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around
the parking lot for a few minutes, with the
officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity in which he tried
his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car and
fall into it. He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons
left the bar and drove off.

Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off--it was a fine,
dry summer night-- flicked the blinkers on and off a couple of times, honked
the horn and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few
inches, reversed a little and then remained still for a few more minutes as
some more of the other patrons' vehicles left. At last, when his was the
only car left in the parking lot, he pulled out and drove slowly down the
road. The police officer, having waited patiently all this time, now started
up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over
and administered a breathalyzer test.

To his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no evidence that the man had
consumed any alcohol at all! Dumbfounded, the officer said, "I'll have to
ask you to accompany me to the police station. This breathalyzer equipment
must be broken."

"I doubt it," said the truly proud Redneck. "Tonight I'm the designated
decoy."
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I copied this from JeepForum. My apologies if this is a repost...

-Erik
 
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Funny indeed. But he could and most likely would still get a dui/dwi for being visually intoxicated whether the breathalyzer said .08 or not. I'm sure popo knows for sure.
And, this is a pretty old joke. :flipoff2: Would be fun to do though.
 
Yeah it will hold in court now b/c of that law or w/e that they passed saying that you can look at someones eyes and tell if they are drunk... with that said thats b/s b/c someone who is having a diabetic crisis looks and acts just like a drunk
 
braxton357 said:
But he could and most likely would still get a dui/dwi for being visually intoxicated whether the breathalyzer said .08 or not. I'm sure popo knows for sure.
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You can charge a DWI with .00 BAC based on field tests. It helps to get the blood test if you are not suspecting alcohol as the impairing substance. The state will test for drugs, both legal and illegal, but it costs an arm and a leg...which gets added to the court costs if found guilty.

In the mentioned scenerio, there is not enough PC to justify the arrest. Had some field sobriety tests been performed and failed in conjuction with the poor driving, then he would have PC for the arrest.

The biggest problem I see with the way this went down (yes I know its an urban legend), is that the officer let the guy into the car...and then onto the street. This was common practice many years ago, but is plain stupid. If you see somebody visibly intoxicated going for the car, the responsible thing to do is prevent them from driving. So what if you don't get to charge the DWI, I would rather do it that way, than allow him on the road. Too much chance he will turn out of the parking lot into the bus load of nuns.

The officer then finds himself in court explaining why he knowingly allowed a drunk to operate a motor vehicle.
 
Is it a bad thing if you have done something like this in the past? I even failed the line test. They took me in to do a blood test and passed, magistraite asked how much I had to drink - told them about 7 or 8 glasses I've been there since noon (9ish at night at this point). The cop had asked me the same question all during booking etc... never once asked what I had to drink... masgistrate finally asked, I told her Coke Cola and I can't walk heal to toe because of the recent knee injury. After listening to the police officers recorder the Masgistrate told me to leave and as I was walking out she let the cop have it. I was definetly worried that I was going to get a beat down after that.

I did have to pay something like $300 to get my Jeep out of the wrecker yard.
 
Stowe said:
Is it a bad thing if you have done something like this in the past? I even failed the line test. They took me in to do a blood test and passed, magistraite asked how much I had to drink - told them about 7 or 8 glasses I've been there since noon (9ish at night at this point). The cop had asked me the same question all during booking etc... never once asked what I had to drink... masgistrate finally asked, I told her Coke Cola and I can't walk heal to toe because of the recent knee injury. After listening to the police officers recorder the Masgistrate told me to leave and as I was walking out she let the cop have it. I was definetly worried that I was going to get a beat down after that.
I did have to pay something like $300 to get my Jeep out of the wrecker yard.
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Sounds like you wasted a bunch of different people's time (and your own, not to mention the $300), which you might have saved had you mentioned the soda and surgery to the officer.
 
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