Bzzzzzzzt!!!! Driver Charged With DUI After Taking Out Utility Poles

In Saskatchewan 5 years ago a buddies brother paid $17k installed for 1 pole replaced overnight on a Saturday night/ Sunday morning.
Yes he was liquored up and therefore had no insurance. The small town (750 population) was out of power for 9 hours on a February night.

 

Sooo...can I be hired with a DUI and a preventable?? I was driving my truck and the power pole just leaped out in front of me! It was my dispatcher’s fault for expecting me to do my job in a safe and timely manner....sober!! I mean for sure I am not to blame!!!

 

You laugh, but we had a dispatcher get seriously ticked off at a driver for refusing to cover a shift another driver called off on. He was sitting in a bar drinking when dispatch called him.

 

That story made me chuckle......I would think alcohol and a stripper pole would be a better combination. Wrong pole driver

 

Oh I know it happens. I’ve gotten that call before. I’m not really a drinker...but if I’m off duty and they call me and I got nothing going on I’m glad to help but if I’ve got plans they are S.O.L! I work to live I don’t live to work! An F’up on someone else’s part does not constitute an emergency on mine!

 

And of course I was making a joke. But just to add. I don’t know how he ended up behind the wheel drunk. Irresponsible, an idiot or pressured by a dispatcher. Who knows....what I do know is there is no excuse for such behavior! Thank God it was just power poles and not someone’s family.

 

What a revolting accident.
He may need a change of shorts
Shocking what we read here
Ohm what else shall I abuse?
Maybe I should resist from further comment?