calling in posible dui's

i've done it but the CMPD suck and let her get away......




American Trucker

 

Look at it this way. Say you don't call it in, but just continue to follow them because you don't want to pass them. Then you watch them cross the median and take out a family head on. How would you feel?

If you see an impaired driver, call them in! Sure, give them a bit to see that they were not just momentarily distracted. But if they don't straighten up, CALL IT IN!

It doesn't matter whether they are drunk, drugged, sleepy, texting, or having a medical problem. That is NOT your job to decide. But if you see them doing the real dangerous driving, CALL IT IN. Let the cops do their thing.

Once law makes the stop, they can determine what the next action should be. Whether it is taking them to jail, hospital or just to the side of the road for a nap, really doesn't matter. What does matter is getting the danger off the road.

I made a similar call about two months ago. Once the cops got the car stopped, it turned out to be a VERY old person. But there was the classic pattern there. I witnessed it, and so did the cops.

This was an individual that had NO BUSINESS even having a driver's license. Yes, it is a sad thing when you get so old and feeble, (physical and/or mental) that you can no longer drive. But it is ahead for quite a lot of us.

Better to get a person like that off the road before they kill someone, rather than afterward.

 

Call as soon as you suspect something isnt right. You gave them the benefit of the doubt as to not jump to conclusions. I think you did fine.

In my book, I dont care who you are, there is no excuse for driving drunk. I personally do not drink if I have anything to do with a vehicle. I would rather have a few Dr. Peppers and have a good time than take a chance of causing a lot of damage or trouble for myself.

 

My wife and I called in some dude about a year ago. We gave him about 20 minutes to get his act together. His inability to drive stayed about the same the entire time, he finally sped off, no idea if the cops ever caught up with him.

 

I'm waiting for the whiny folks to chime in here about minding our own business... I've made the call, too.

I guarantee that one of these mamby-pamby folks who think "it's not my business" would be thinking differently if their family got taken out by a drunk, or even someone having a seizure... they'd be wondering.. "why didn't someone get involved and call that in?"...

 

I had a security job that had me driving on 101 in northern CA all night long. I would call in about 2 or 3 a week. I live in a rural area where people drink and drive all the time.

After about a year for doing this all the time I came to work one night and there was a message for me to call some big shot carpet cop (cop that never leaves the office) for the CHP. He proceeded to tell me how great it was that there where concerned citizens like me out there and that they got an arrest out of the deal.

I asked what car it was? What way was it going? What time was it? I have been calling these things in on a regular basis and this is the first time in a year your guys actually followed up and got an arrest. Basically I blew him off in disgust and hung up on him.

I will still call them in. You never know who will be the drunks next victim.

 

I call them in, it's better to find out then to hear about a fatality accident involving this vehicle because you didn't call it in.

This happened to me when I lived in Nashville, I called in a drunk driver, the police kept telling me NOT to follow the car, yet I was going the same way so what was I to do. They never stopped the car and north of Nashville it was invovled in a serious accident.

 

I've called them in before. You did the right thing, and possibly saved someone's life. I realize that you feel like you were harassed when you were driving sleepy, but, really, think about it. Someone called it in because the gave a #### and wanted to make sure you were stopped before you hurt yourself or someone else. If you get stopped for driving erratically, a sobriety test is a given.

 

i too have called in these people. at the very least one can feel good knowing that a possible disaster was diverted. now, if any police agency DOES NOT respond, or they simply cannot find the vehicle we called about, well there's nothing else we can do, as we continue to go on our way.

oh by the way, with out any hesitation, i have called in truckers who weave, race, cut off others, and do other stupid sheet out there....no one is immune to getting a phone call.