More fun to continue the series....
A few nights ago, Scott responded to a crash scene. A 71 year old lady was apparently not seeing straight and drove right into the center support of a viaduct. The culprit? A half-consumed bottle of Canadian Mist (cheap whiskey) was on the seat next to her. Another unopened bottle waited in reserve. Breathalyzer results: 0.21.
Granny wouldn't be driving anywhere else that night. The car was totaled, but she was loose enough from being so drunk that she was barely injured. When the court date comes, will she remember any of it? Probably not.
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Last night's fun: since the blizzard, many streets still haven't been cleared. Even on main streets, getting around can be a little more challenging than usual, so people are getting a little testy. On one north side street, a bus pulled into a bus stop for passengers to get on and off. The bus happened to be blocking access to an alley.
A guy who wanted to drive into the alley to reach his garage had no patience at all. He didn't want to wait a minute for the bus to move along. He pulled up next to the bus, got out of his car and started yelling. Then he pulled in front of the bus on an angle, blocking the bus. The bus driver called 911.
The guy insisted that the bus driver back up and give him access to the alley. This would have been ridiculous even with a regular bus, but it was an extra-long articulated bus, which was slightly curved while pulled into the stop. There's no way that baby would be backing up on a city street.
When Scott arrived, he got the bus driver's statement, then made the guy move so the bus could go on its way. He asked the guy why he couldn't just drive around the corner, onto another main street, and use another access point there to get into the alley. The guy was still insistent that the bus driver was in the wrong - for stopping legally at a bus stop while doing his job as usual. He got a couple of special gifts for his trouble - traffic citations.
True genius never takes a holiday. ;)
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Stim - Truly. I'm just glad that she didn't hurt anyone.
With so much traffic back out on the streets and plenty of snow cutting down on driving and walking space, there were accidents everywhere. Scott and his partner following the ambulance, and it took nearly half an hour to go one mile to the hospital because so many streets and intersections were blocked.
They did paperwork while Mr. Genius was getting medical attention in the ER. When they looked him up on the computer, it turned out that he had 172 prior arrests under 40+ aliases. Now that's a frequent flyer!
A while later, the blood test results came back. Blood alcohol level of .32. Yes, .32 - 4 times the legal limit. Because Mr. Genius was so extremely sauced, they had to wait in the ER for his blood alcohol level to come down to a less toxic level before he could be arrested and transported to the police station. It took long enough that the watch commander had to send another team to relieve Scott and his partner so they could go home for the night.