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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1307559" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p>Sorry, you're wrong. Not being sanctimonious but I haven't done that. </p><p></p><p>I almost got in serious trouble about 20 yrs ago for trying to stop someone from driving drunk. We were coming home from vacation in northern Michigan, heading south on I-75, and realized that another motorist was weaving everywhere--to the point that we had to swerve and several cars were forced off the highway into the ditch and onto the median. This was early days of cell phones and I was able to call the state hwy patrol and give them the guy's car description, license plate and mile marker. They said they'd send someone out. We decided to keep him in sight from a safe distance. He was almost passed out as he was driving (actually looked dead for a while, head all the way back) and actively continuing to drink from a 5th of something. He swerved all over the road, and off the road, and back on the road...cars and 18wheelers scattering everywhere. This went on for several HOURS--no shite. All the way down I-75 to where the road splits to Detroit. I called numerous times to update the cops, and we passed numerous patrol posts. They said they had gotten many calls and would come get him. We stayed as close as we safely could, figuring he had to pull over eventually. He finally went in a rest stop and staggered from his car. He could barely walk, reeked of hooch. A tux hung in the back seat. Nice car. He looked like a businessman-turned-sloppy-drunk. I tried to engage him and get him to give me his keys but short of getting beat up, it wasn't happening. (My travel companion restrained me, which I regret to this day). I tried to block his car in but he evaded me and left the rest stop (where I had told the police he was the second I realized he was pulling in). We followed him out and made a final call as he pulled away toward Detroit. When I got home I wrote the most scathing letter of my life to the head of the state highway patrol and cc'd MADD. I fully expect that he killed someone before he got home. Burns me up to this day. It wasn't just that he started out drunk; he was chugging (no other word for it) for hours while he drove down I-75. Why they never even tried to get him despite info re specific mile markers and probably 20 calls from me alone, I will never know. Had he killed someone, IMHO the cops were equally culpable after about 3 hours of that bs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1307559, member: 20599"] Sorry, you're wrong. Not being sanctimonious but I haven't done that. I almost got in serious trouble about 20 yrs ago for trying to stop someone from driving drunk. We were coming home from vacation in northern Michigan, heading south on I-75, and realized that another motorist was weaving everywhere--to the point that we had to swerve and several cars were forced off the highway into the ditch and onto the median. This was early days of cell phones and I was able to call the state hwy patrol and give them the guy's car description, license plate and mile marker. They said they'd send someone out. We decided to keep him in sight from a safe distance. He was almost passed out as he was driving (actually looked dead for a while, head all the way back) and actively continuing to drink from a 5th of something. He swerved all over the road, and off the road, and back on the road...cars and 18wheelers scattering everywhere. This went on for several HOURS--no shite. All the way down I-75 to where the road splits to Detroit. I called numerous times to update the cops, and we passed numerous patrol posts. They said they had gotten many calls and would come get him. We stayed as close as we safely could, figuring he had to pull over eventually. He finally went in a rest stop and staggered from his car. He could barely walk, reeked of hooch. A tux hung in the back seat. Nice car. He looked like a businessman-turned-sloppy-drunk. I tried to engage him and get him to give me his keys but short of getting beat up, it wasn't happening. (My travel companion restrained me, which I regret to this day). I tried to block his car in but he evaded me and left the rest stop (where I had told the police he was the second I realized he was pulling in). We followed him out and made a final call as he pulled away toward Detroit. When I got home I wrote the most scathing letter of my life to the head of the state highway patrol and cc'd MADD. I fully expect that he killed someone before he got home. Burns me up to this day. It wasn't just that he started out drunk; he was chugging (no other word for it) for hours while he drove down I-75. Why they never even tried to get him despite info re specific mile markers and probably 20 calls from me alone, I will never know. Had he killed someone, IMHO the cops were equally culpable after about 3 hours of that bs. [/QUOTE]
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