Drink Driver

[fred.n]

Just arrived in the inbox, thought I'd share



Does this happen on the Sunshine Coast often I wonder?

Drink Driver

Love those Queenslanders!!!


From the State where drink driving is considered a sport,

comes a true story from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.



Recently a routine police patrol was parked outside a local

neighbourhood tavern. Late in the evening the officer noticed

a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.

The man stumbled around the carpark for a few minutes, with

the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity and

trying his keys on five vehicles, the man managed to find his car

which he fell into. He was there for a few minutes as a number

of other patrons left the bar and drove off.

Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was

a fine dry night) flicked the indicators on, then off, tooted the horn

and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a

few inches, reversed a little and then remained stationary for a

few more minutes as some more vehicles left. At last he pulled

out of the car park and started to drive slowly down the road. The

police officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up

the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man

over and carried out a breathalyser test.


To his amazement the breathalyser indicated no evidence of the

man having consumed alcohol at all!



Dumbfounded, the officer said "I'll have to ask you to accompany me

to the Police station this breath-alyser equipment must be broken.


"I doubt it," said the man, "tonight I'm the designated decoy".


True story.

[Honorary Bloke]

Whether true or not, very clever. DWIers can be quite cunning, eh?

[ozwinner]

Its an oldie but a goodie.

Al

[Daddles]

Its an oldie but a goodie.

Al

Old? Al, the first time they tried to get that yarn published, the editor refused to run it until someone invented alcohol

Richard

[Blocklayer]

A mate of mine used to get reminder notices from the police if he went more than 12 months without loosing his license

Try the second last question in the blocklayers aptitude test below
http://www.blocklayer.com/aptitudetest.aspx
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[bitingmidge]

Now here's the sad truth related to drink driving on the Sunshine Coast:

The boys in blue make a regular practice of hanging round outside the courts after the morning Drink Drive hearings, and pulling up people leaving after making their appearance.

A huge percentage of the idiots, having just lost their licences for a short while, hop in their cars to drive home. Gotcha.... big licence loss now fella!

Let that be a lesson to you all: when loss of licence seems certain, get your mum to take you to court!

P

[Blocklayer]

Let that be a lesson to you all: when loss of licence seems certain, get your mum to take you to court!

That'd be fine. IF your mum hasn't lost her license
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[AlexS]

Some years ago, a vet in a country town where I used to live was called out to a calving on a Saturday night when he'd had a few. Not wanting to lose his licence, he called the local police and asked if they could drive him....and they did!

[Tonyz]

This is off the subject but worth the read.

A well known cop that was (sigh.sob) in our area Used to take the local kids for their written test, watching over their shoulder and coughing loudly when a wrong answer was put down. Has also been known to pull the test paper away and say "start again, this time think of your answer".

Would have a constant 99% success rate then the drive test then an 'interview' back at the station.
Went something like this.... "smart little bugga arent ya? Go for it but if I catch you doing ANYTHING stupid your licence goes to your parents and your car/ute in my backyard for a month. Then we deal with the technical aspect of what you were doing."

There was supposedly mourning in the area for a month when he was transferred, the local adults just loved this guy.

[Jedo_03]

Last century - when we arrived over here from AngleLand, the missus didn't have a driving licence... we had an auto falcon wagon and she learned to drive in that and booked in to the local cop station for her driving test... meanwhile, gumptious here - yeah ME, traded the falcon in for a troop carrier... yeah, manual gears, and couple days later she rolls up at the cop shop and explains that she's not used to driving a manual and nothing as big as this...
Local cop says "dinnea worrry" (aye - a canny Scot), they take off, drive once round the block - all left turns, stop in front of the shop again and he says "Can yee rreverrse...: she goes Yes. and he says "And I bet yee can do a thrree point turrn as well..." and she goes YES. And he signed the paperwork - she'd passed...
How times have changed....
Jedo

[bansheez71]

Heard something similar on the news. A group of people fishing was asked to show there fishing license and on guy took off running. The Game Warden finally caught the guy and asked him why he was fishing without a license. The guy said I have license, but my friends don't. Doubt if its true, but it is a good idea.