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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 8:13:13 GMT
Yes because you could potentially be saving not only their lives but other lives too
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Post by Karl Aksel on Jun 28, 2020 8:27:11 GMT
I don't know what the legal limit is in the US, but in Norway I would have called the police. Even one unit of regular beer would have put him over the limit here, and for someone to drink that openly in Norway, he would have to have a very cavalier attitude towards drinking and driving.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jun 28, 2020 8:29:37 GMT
Brah. Damn if that doesn't ring a bell.  |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 30, 2020 17:09:45 GMT
Yes.
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Post by enigma72 on Jun 30, 2020 17:26:03 GMT
I was buying gas not long ago, and when I was standing there, pumping gas, I got the unmistakable smell of beer. I turned around, and the person who pulled up to the pump behind me was an older Hispanic gentleman in a truck with his wife and the windows down, and he was drinking from a bottle of Bud Light. He put the bottle down, hopped out of his truck, and walked to the store. I watched him, because I was curious if he would be staggering and acting drunk. He seemed to walk fine though. I assumed it was one of those things where older people feel like they can have "one for the road". I shrugged, hopped in my car, and drove off. What do you think? Should I have called the cops?  That's a tough one. I voted undecided. DUI's are a big expensive problem! One beer probably isn't a big deal. But it may lead to drunk driving and killing someone. I probably would have done like you |
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Post by Marv on Jun 30, 2020 17:27:20 GMT
Honestly, I probably wouldn’t have called the cops. If you watched him fall face down on the pavement or something that may change my mind but given the situation I would’ve most likely just minded my own business.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 30, 2020 17:38:48 GMT
No. I'm not an expert on how to judge intoxication, nor did I see him imbibe from an open container while driving. Once his car was stopped, he's not driving. Although I suspect he imbibed while driving, since I didn't actually witness it, hard to say. I'd hate to fuck with someone when I had no definitive proof he was drunk. And that's a gray area.
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Post by divtal on Jun 30, 2020 22:04:19 GMT
What surprises me is that you "got the unmistakable smell of beer," from Bud Light, that many feet away.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 30, 2020 22:43:30 GMT
What surprises me is that you "got the unmistakable smell of beer," from Bud Light, that many feet away. Possibly he has the nose of a connoisseur? |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 30, 2020 23:59:08 GMT
I probably would've phoned 911. Seeing an impaired driver is an acceptable police emergency around here.
Describing to them in detail what you saw, they probably wouldn't be sending 20 cars out to shut the town down on him. Probably would've found him, stopped, questioned. If odor on his breath then he made his own bed.
If someone were hurt or worse because of a non-call, witnesses enabled yes?
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Post by mslo79 on Jul 1, 2020 0:31:30 GMT
The obvious question is... was he driving or not? ; if not, I would not care in the slightest (since if he's not driving I think someone complaining over 'open container' is a bunch of BS since it's impossible for him to harm someone if he's not driving) and calling the cops I would frown on. but... if he was driving, especially if he was more obviously wasted, I could easily understand if someone called the cops since you might potentially save someones life.
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Post by divtal on Jul 1, 2020 2:06:05 GMT
The obvious question is... was he driving or not? ; if not, I would not care in the slightest (since if he's not driving I think someone complaining over 'open container' is a bunch of BS since it's impossible for him to harm someone if he's not driving) and calling the cops I would frown on. but... if he was driving, especially if he was more obviously wasted, I could easily understand if someone called the cops since you might potentially save someones life. Good catch, Mslo. He says the gentleman was "in a truck with his wife and the windows down...." If his wife was "down," it's unlikely that she was driving. It's too confusing. |
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Jul 1, 2020 5:03:50 GMT
I must be desensitized to this kind of thing, or you must live in a very prude area. I probably would have confronted him directly. If he wasn't clearly a drunken hazard, not getting the police involved.
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Post by Morgana on Jul 2, 2020 10:04:58 GMT
I was buying gas not long ago, and when I was standing there, pumping gas, I got the unmistakable smell of beer.
I turned around, and the person who pulled up to the pump behind me was an older Hispanic gentleman in a truck with his wife and the windows down, and he was drinking from a bottle of Bud Light. He put the bottle down, hopped out of his truck, and walked to the store.
I watched him, because I was curious if he would be staggering and acting drunk. He seemed to walk fine though. I assumed it was one of those things where older people feel like they can have "one for the road". I shrugged, hopped in my car, and drove off.
What do you think? Should I have called the cops? I couldn't decide. It's a hard one because one the one hand, if you think about it, he could have caused an accident and not only injured himself and his wife, but someone else, but then again, you don't want to get him into trouble. |
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