Drunk driver pulls over police

[FLPilot]

Copy and pasted from CNN:

Police Chief Ian McCollin was in his car when he spotted a driver looking befuddled at an intersection.

Thinking the man might be lost, McCollin stopped on the side of the road. The man pulled alongside of him, rolled down his window and announced he was looking for an officer to arrest him because he was drunk.

McCollin was so startled he called for backup.

"I was just a little nervous about it," he said. "It just wasn't natural."

The man, Bryan S. Condo, 28, allegedly showed a non-driver's I.D., and said his license had been criminally suspended. He said he already had been arrested once for driving drunk.

In a preliminary breath test, Condo registered more than four times the 0.08 legal limit, McCollin said.

McCollin said Condo wasn't combative, as is typical in such cases.

"He was a gentleman, very polite and very cooperative," he said. "I think he was looking for or needs help."

Condo was cited for second-offense DUI and driving with a suspended license.

[Samuel2003]

lol If it could only be that nice all the time...

[borg]

Spaeaking of drunks.......

Use your mouse to keep the
drunk from falling down.

[mchan]

funny.. I got to 58m

[Ziploc]

FLPilot, your story reminds me of a college friend's incident from years ago.

My friend--usually responsible but a sometime big partier--made an impulsive, alcohol-fueled decision to drive home (95 mi. away) after a party one Friday nite at the school. She jumped in her new Chevy Camaro--a recent gift from her parents--and sped off without a word to anyone about 2 a.m.

A few miles down the road, she came to some road construction....the new traffic pattern totally befuddled her, and she nearly hit a cement barrier. Only then did it finally penetrate her brain how drunk she was and that she had no business being on the road! So, she pulled over to consider the situation. At the time, all she could think of was how pis$ed her parents would be if she screwed up her new car!

After a few minutes, she began to feel sleepy and a little creepy in the darkness. Just as she started to wonder if she shouldn't just get back on the road, the lights of an oncoming car came round the bend....Uh-oh, a state trooper, and here she was, drunk as a skunk! What to do??? The thought of her parent's wrath if she continued driving and trashed the Camaro [what she might do to herself or others never entered her mind at the time; a clue to how the inebriated think(?)] was what caused her to jump out and wave her arms wildly to flag the cop down. I can't recall what she was charged with, but I don't think it was DUI, since she wasn't driving when the cop stopped. At any rate, you could say that this was another case of a DRUNK DRIVER pulling over the POLICE!!!!

[FLPilot]

Well Ziploc at least she didn't hurt herself or someone else. I don't generally give breaks to DUI perps, but I think if someone were to flag me down and say that they were too drunk to drive I would shake their hand and take them home instead of arresting them. Something about the fact that they are doing something positive from the negative they began with has to say something for them, like in the instance of your friends story. On the other hand, I find a lot of drunks just sleeping at the intersection with their foot on the brake waiting for the green light. Well they don't know it but the green light has come and gone a few times since they got there. Those people I have no question about.....click-click

[Ziploc]

Originally posted by FLPilot
Well Ziploc at least she didn't hurt herself or someone else. I don't generally give breaks to DUI perps, but I think if someone were to flag me down and say that they were too drunk to drive I would shake their hand and take them home instead of arresting them. Something about the fact that they are doing something positive from the negative they began with has to say something for them, like in the instance of your friends story. On the other hand, I find a lot of drunks just sleeping at the intersection with their foot on the brake waiting for the green light. Well they don't know it but the green light has come and gone a few times since they got there. Those people I have no question about.....click-click

Yeah, the more I think about it, I don't think she was actually charged with anything. The state trooper took her back to the dorm and arranged for someone to drive the car back there, too, since it was in kind of an unsafe area. He did, however, call her parents about the incident, which of course she asked him NOT to do...and of course was exactly the right thing to do!!!!!

[waynerd]

My roomie in college did a similar thing. His boss got him plowed on his 21st birthday. He was fine as he walked back to his car at work, but then he drove about 100 yards and realized it was a bad idea and pulled over to the curb, and turned the car off.....then opened the door, puked, and passed out. A pizza delivery guy found him, put him on the hood, where he puked again. Sure enough, Officer Friendly called me about 10 minutes later to come collect him. No charges. Thanks pizza guy!