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MushyHeirloom
02/23/09

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I really do hope they go easy on him for being smart enough to realize it.

Still, though, that would take a fair bit of alcohol and some big brass balls.
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.357
02/23/09

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Wow he must have been really hammered to call the cops.
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
02/23/09

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Wait, it was a Pennsylvania man?

Five bucks says its one of my hillbilly relatives.
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fodder650
02/23/09

@FromaBuick6: yeah doesnt say where in PA he was from. We are a very large state with many many different populations living inside our borders.

From your Philly types, to yinz down in the 'burg. This sounds more like someone out in the middle of the state in no mans land. Doubt it was Allentown or he would have been humming Billy Joel when he called.
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Triborough
02/23/09

@fodder650: Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.
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fodder650
02/23/09

@Triborough: I think the people from Erie and those from Allentown, the little town of Bethlehem and Easton would somehow say your wrong.
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
02/23/09

@Triborough: That is perhaps the most apt description I've ever heard.

All I can say is, don't ever drive from Altoona to Pittsburgh on back roads in the middle of the night. And definitely don't stop for gas and coffee.

Trust me.
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Miscellanea
02/24/09

@fodder650: Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton are part of the Philly Metro like Erie is... well... it's just Erie I guess. They live by their own rules up yonder.
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Jeb_Hoge
02/23/09

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I knew a guy who pulled over, flagged down a cop, and got him to drive him home. No ticket. Granted, this was in New Orleans, but still...ballsy.
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lilwillie
02/23/09

@Jeb_Hoge:

BTDT.
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SeanKHotay
02/23/09

@lilwillie: Sounds like you're the expert here...

Town drunk? ;-)
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Deartháir II
02/23/09

@lilwillie: I also. I grew up in a small town, and one night I came walking out of the pub, and knew I absolutely should not be driving. So I walked around the corner to the hiding spot where the police like to sit and wait for drunk drivers.

I had a smoke and chatted for a few (in a small town, you know most of the cops), and when they asked what I was doing, I told them I was sure I would blow over the limit, so I had to wait a few hours before I could go home, so I was going for a walk.

They said that if they didn't see anyone who appeared intoxicated, or if I was willing to wait, they'd give me a ride home as soon as the bar rush was over.

Nice guys, and I actually pulled the same stunt two or three times.

It actually paid off huge later, because they now knew that if I was driving home I was probably sober, because I'd just come chat with them if I'd had too much.
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smalleyxb122
02/23/09

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+1 for acknowledging his folly and getting off of the road.

- about a million for calling the police rather than a cab, or even just trying to sleep it off in his car that was parked in a parking lot.

If the parking lot was that of a privately owned business, he will likely get out of a DUI charge. The most they could get him for is public intoxication, unless they have a sworn statement admitting his traveling on public roads whilst impaired.
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78_elky
02/23/09

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I had a coworker get arrested one night for DUI. He was in a blanket in the passenger seat sleeping after having left the bar. He had planned on staying there until the morning. The officer woke him up with a flashlight tapping on the glass. When he explained the officer said "You're under arrest for DUI, etc." It had just happened when I heard about it and I have no idea if it held up in court.
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lilwillie
02/23/09

@78_elky:

If the keys are in the ignition, running or not, it will hold up. At least with Wisconsin law.
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P161911 probably shoudn't have
02/23/09

@78_elky: Probably wouldn't hold up in Georgia. I was a witness to similar case.

I pulled into my neighborhood about 11pm on a Saturday night in December. In the dead enter of the road, differential lined up on the centerline, is a Chevy truck with the window down and some guy slumped over the wheel. Didn't know if the guy was dead or what. I went home and called the cops. Cops show up, guy gets arrested for DUI. Turns out that he had been to a Christmas party at his boss's house way back in the neighborhood. They got in a fight after getting lost in the neighborhood, she called a cab, took the truck keys and left him. I had to go to court and testify since I was the one that called the cops. The guy got off the DUI because he didn't have any keys to the truck available to him.
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engineerd
02/23/09

@lilwillie: In several states that's the case.

Stupid, but it is.
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devilock138
02/23/09

@P161911 misses weekday Murilee: My old roommate got a DUI because he had pulled over at a gas station and decided to sleep until he wasn't drunk any longer. It was pretty cold that night so he left the car running for the heat. City of Atlanta considered that a DUI.
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P161911 probably shoudn't have
02/23/09

@devilock138: This guy got a lawyer and "not guilty" in Newton County. He tried to claim the truck was pulled over to the side of the road, it was in the middle. Stupid still hurt for this guy (legal fees) but not as bad as it cold have (jail time, driving record). I think the fact the cops didn't see any keys helped.
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ViperBorg
02/23/09

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Well, you have to give him credit. When your drunk, your not thinking right. At least he got to the point where he pulled over and called for help. Even if it was to the Police, which got him arrested.

I'm sure the Judge will go light with that fact in mind.
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engineerd
02/23/09

@ViperBorg - Facebook is the new AOL.: your=you're

/pedantics
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Dr. H. F. Danger
02/23/09

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"Yeah, police?

There is some asshole sitting in my driver-seat and he won't get out.

oh wait."
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engineerd
02/23/09

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Drinking and cell phones don't mix.
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
02/23/09

@engineerd: Indeed.

It's still not as bad as calling an ex-girlfriend who's number you really should have removed from the phone.
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engineerd
02/23/09

@FromaBuick6: Or an old boss.
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Miscellanea
02/24/09

@engineerd: Ouch, I bet that totally ruined a good resume reference.
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Brimful of Ash on the 78
02/23/09

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Get out, lock the car, and walk really far away. Don't be standing anywhere near your car with keys accessible.
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