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Originally Posted by Great Asp
OP, I hope your daughter is doing better, and you can figure out a way to enjoy your car.
I would not make a good police officer if that's what it takes to be one. The cop is doing his job giving a sobrity test to a man who brought his daughter to the hospital with her fingers torn open? There had to be another option open to the police officer. The OP passes the first test, but the police officer (doing his job right?), wants a blood test also?
Sometimes right ain't right.
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Well said Asp, I'd never make it as a lawman either.
Ya, ya, the law's the law and OP will now take his duly prescribed medicine. (With apparently less bitterness than I might). His instinctive decision to aid his child will now reward him with major DMV heartache and allow insurance companies to
feast on him for the next 3 to 5 years. No good deed goes unpunished.
Options to the officer? How's this?
If I'm the cop and detect the effects of alcohol, I take OP aside and TALK to him-and use my academy-learned detective skills to determine in a brief conversation if this guy's a bad dude with a problem or a guy that instantly made a decision that his kid's life was in trauma. Knowing that a little girl has lost a digit would be uppermost on my mind-not that this guy
could have flattened innocent pedestrians. The fact is, he
didn't. Rather than pondering which test to submit him to for maximum penalty, I give him a BIG sermon about driving in this condition and tell him to kiss his kid for me.
If the officer let him walk, would he later torment and second guess himself with the thought. "...damn, I failed to do my duty and missed an opportunity to protect the public from possible harm from this guy"?
Yes, I know officers, you see blood and carnage on the highway every day and you are sworn to combat that horror. But here was a miracle to witness, the Almighty guided this legal inebriate safely to the salvation of his child. You could say major carnage was averted
here and call it a day. Cops are humans too, right?
Surveying the situation for a suitable driver/vehicle substitute to take my kid to the hospital is something I would waste zero time on-as he did.
But that's just me and maybe Asp too. But I would do
exactly as OP for my kid. Foolish and wreckless as that is in these 'cover your ass' days.
Hope your kid's on the mend too, OP.
Flame away.
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