Posted on 11/02/2009 7:46:26 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The call came into the 911 dispatcher: "I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm drunk."
And with that, Mary Strey, 49, of Granton, reported herself as a drunken driver about three miles northeast of Neilsville in central Wisconsin.
In the 911 call, Strey said she wanted to report a drunken driver and the dispatcher asked if she was behind the suspect vehicle. "I am them,"
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It is priceless....
I appreciate the sentiment, but a call to the local Taxi company would have been smarter and accomplished the same moral goal.
Darwin nominee
That would involve thinking clearly, and as I have noted many times over the years, when schnockered out the wazoo, clear thinking is not my strong suit.
I give her credit for calling.
Oh, absolutely.....
Nobody died.
But, I’m tellin’ ya....the 911 call was a real hoot....
>>That would involve thinking clearly, and as I have noted many times over the years, when schnockered out the wazoo, clear thinking is not my strong suit.<<
Clearly this is one of the times when age certainly helps — when I go a’drinkin I start by a’thinkin. Taxis are frequently my first line of releasing for fun...
If I was to hurt (much less kill)anyone from my D & D I think I would not be able to live with myself.
Just heard it.
Evidently she wasn’t so drunk that she couldn’t see the potential ramifications of her actions.
Bad for her for getting behind the wheel drunk, but good for her to stop herself before hurting someone.
Even Mister MaGoo saw this coming.......
;-)
[I posted this on another forum about this same story. I thought I would toss my two cents in here as well and see what people think.]
Well, see... there's the problem right there. After a few drinks, one of the first things to disappear is good judgment. We all know this, yet for some reason we expect drunks to excercise the same good judgment that sober people would. I don't know why. Alcohol impairs judgment long before it impairs motor skills. Check out any "Girls Gone Wild" video for confirmation of this.
This lady, like lots of people, probably thought she was fine to drive when she got in the car (i.e. impaired judgment). She was a little more aware than most, however (and probably a little less drunk than most) because at some point as she was driving she realized that she should not be.
What she could have done was just to pull off into some safe place and stop... either to wait to sober up or sleep it off. But of course if she did that she'd be busted for DUI anyway. Not to mention that depending on the town, there's no actual safe place to do such a thing, especially for a woman by herself.
Many, if not most drunks, once they hit the road... do realize at some point that they really shouldn't be driving and they really should get off the road. It would be good if they did, voluntarily like that. It would be good to give people this option somehow, though I'm not sure how that would work. But as it sits we basically force drunks to attempt to run the gauntlet and get all the way home. Too many times, this has tragic consequences.
A couple cents tossed into the pool for consideration...
She probably uses White-Out on her computer screen at work.
What the heck are you talking about? This woman is almost the antithesis of a Darwin nominee.
Excellent post.
I went to a University party 30 years ago, drove a few blocks and realized I’d had too much. Pull into the woods (FWD) to sleep it off. I was awakened by an officer who was concerned about a vehicle that looked to him like it was in a ditch. He drove me to someone in that neighborhood who gave me a cup of coffee and then back to my truck where I slept for a while).
That was a different country.
Like you said... that was a long time ago.
Thanks!
Nobody likes drunks out on the road, and I certainly am not an apologist for such things. But there are some basic mistakes I think we are making with regard to drinking behaviour and driving that we should probably re-consider.
Good for her! Many that read this are saying to themselves ‘I can relate to the incomprehensible demoralization that this woman felt’.
You folks that can’t relate...well good for you too. Alcoholism is a b-—h!
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