Police officer busted for reverse drunk driving

NY Post ^ | 3/18/18 | Emily Saul

[hole_n_one]

A police lieutenant was canned early Sunday after crossing over the blurry blue line — when her fellow officers discovered their drunken colleague driving backwards, honking, through the streets of Florida.

Now ex-cop Christi Ruhtz, 41, was discovered with bloodshot, glassy eyes and reeking of booze in Pinellas, Florida around 2:00 a.m

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Rhutz, who’d been with the Pinellas County Sherriff’s Office since 1998, was immediately fired, according to the report.

[TigersEye]

Any gal that will bonk while driving deserves more praise
than merely calling her “polite!” :)

[dragnet2]

And just before this she was walking around with a gun, badge and authority to kill...Scary.

[SamAdams76]

It is situations like there where Uber/Lyft really come in handy.

It's much cheaper to book a ride home with your mobile app than to lose your job and pay thousands of dollars in legal fees.

[SaveFerris]

[Some typos are great:)]

OOPS! LOL I think that came out better than what I intended

rotflol

[dragnet2]

There’s a bit of a difference between driving home after having a bit too much to drink and drunk driving around town backwards while honking your horn.

[Nifster]

Alcoholism is a terrible thing

[Nailbiter]

first thing I looked at - eyes do not seem that crazy, but then again maybe I have seen way to many crazy and am jaded

[PLMerite]

There’s another picture of her here:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/18/sheriffs-lieutenant-caught-driving-in-reverse-honking-horn-for-unknown-reasons.html

She cleans up real nice.

[hole_n_one]

No suspension with/without pay until it makes its way thru the judicial process.

Immediate termination does not seem to be the normal approach that PD’s take.

[Larry Lucido]

Driving backwards? Her name is Christi? I'd stay away from her and the car.

[SaveFerris]

My typo could have become one of those epic threads.....lol

[SaveFerris]

Be worried if she does a bonk while driving in reverse!!

[Eddie01]

Rhutz, who’d been with the Pinellas County Sherriff’s Office since 1998, was immediately fired, according to the report.

What a coinkidink, I joined FR in 1998.

[Eddie01]

She’s too Vulcan for me.

[Rebelbase]

That would be inverse drunk driving, right?

[dragnet2]

Police officer busted for reverse drunk driving

This seems to imply being drunk and driving forward is A OK.

Or do the penalties double when in reverse?

[doorgunner69]

Maybe she borrowed a manual shift car and could not figure out how to get out of reverse?

[Ken H]

One of my favorite typos was a poster saying the drawbacks of owning a McMansion were “taxes, insurance and interior desecrator fees.”

[hole_n_one]

What a coinkidink, I joined FR in 1998.

Me too......and I’ve posted a few times while drunk.

Cue the Twilight Zone theme music....

[familyop]

"Now ex-cop Christi Ruhtz, 41, was discovered with bloodshot, glassy eyes..."

With that and the way she was driving, she might have been drinking the booze to take the paranoid edge off of the marijuana. Very common practice with potheads.