Listen, if you are going to stumble around intoxicated in a nice, upscale community, there are proper ways to be behave. I am sure some of the residents there also overindulge on occasion but they follow some simple rules. One very important one is to avoid the urge, no matter how strong, to relieve yourself on a parked police car. I cannot guarantee you will not be arrested if you urinate behind a tree, but soaking a cop’s new Crown Vic is a sure-fire way to end up in my shop, sedated and sleeping it off, citation in hand.
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Why are the cops using the ER as a drunk tank? Or has that the way it’s always been – or at least for a good long while?
Was this the guy same guy who staged the sit-in yesterday?
ACZ, I can’t speak for the blogger, but it seems to be a common thing in all the medblogs I read – drunks being dragged into the ER to sleep it off, basically.
ACZ, Many states now have laws mandating cops to bring intoxicated persons to the ER – mostly for liability. Back in the day, drunks would seize and die in the cell.
Dr Grumpy – no, this was another guy!
Even worse, don’t pee on the cop.
(Seriously. Some years ago my partner and I were on a stakeout. Partner was prone next to, but not under, a hedge. Young gentleman with a serious load on decided that hedge was the perfect place to answer the call, despite there being, oh, 12′ between his parked vehicle and the door of the house he was visiting – the one we had under surveillance. Partner got, literally, hosed. Young gentleman got cited for drunk in public and DWI as well as purchase of controlled substance. Partner tried very hard to charge him with assault on a police officer but the rest of us laughed him out of it.)
Wow. That’s just…Wow.