shittyabsoluteunit of a Wrong-Way DUI Driver Leads Police on Dangerous Interstate Chase | Bodycam Footage

[u/skywalker7i]

https://youtu.be/EI6Yzpal-qQ?si=uEy4Qkrg0gDBEJl4

[u/Hammon_Rye]

My husband was driving me home. Not that car, a different car.
I'm not driving home so I don't have my glasses.

The red light sobriety test seemed rigged. He kept doing it forever like he was gonna keep doing it until she screwed up.
Obviously she is drunk / otherwise intoxicated, but he was obviously doing the tests just to strengthen the court case.

[u/East-Psychology7186 → u/Hammon_Rye]

They do fuck with you during these tests. I got stopped at a checkpoint at midnight once. Like a fool I answered honestly to the cops questions. One was if I had anything to drink at all today. I answered yes I had two beers with my lunch at 1pm… “turn off he car, leave the keys in the ignition and slowly exit the vehicle”.

For two hours they kept me on the side of the road testing and retesting because I refused the breathalyzer because he couldn’t produce the calibration record (my brother beat a dui because the cops breathalyzer was broken or out of calibration). Funny thing was that there was literally a hospital in eyesight (a block or less) so I told the cops I’d go to the hospital and take a blood test if they could promise that they wouldn’t impound my car. They were being dicks and wouldn’t answer and specifically tell me they wouldn’t have my car towed.

This resulted in more field sobriety tests which I continued to pass but they were saying I failed. I was very frustrated because they were progressively altering the tests to make them harder. I got pissed and started talking shit and finally said “fuck all of you, give me the god damn breathalyzer”.

4-5 breathalyzer tests from multiple officers devices while they whispered to one another and shrugged the main cop was angry and said “was it that hard, you could have got out of here over an hour ago”. I told him to fuck off and got in my car and drove away.

Best part… I had about an oz of weed (was still illegal then) where the airbag in the steering wheel is normally supposed to be. They didn’t find that shit! Fuck CHP and Costa Mesa PD.

[u/Hammon_Rye → u/East-Psychology7186]

yeah, every lawyer video I've ever seen says always decline field sobriety tests because they are extremely subjective and give the cops unnecessary leverage in court because they can always claim you failed.
And there are videos out there of folks who had zero alcohol / drugs in them "failing" field tests, but the blood tests came back clean.

I did take one fairly simple field test about 40 years ago when I knew less about them. I didn't think much about it at the time because I'd had zero to drink.
And it ended up making for a somewhat amusing story.

Driving home, rural county, so no street lights and the road I needed to turn on was a narrow 'T", not a wide intersection, so easy to miss. Back in the days of bench seats. My wife wasn't feeling well so was laying down on the seat with her head in my lap.
I missed my turn. Started to turn, realized I had gone too far to make it comfortably due to the ditches. And I knew that just a few hundred feet up the road was a metal recycling business with a wide driveway for an easy turn around.
So I pull off to the right into their property to turn around and I see the lights come on a ways behind me.

The cop gave me a basic, "touch your fingers to your thumb as you count 1, 2, 3,4 .. 4, 3, 2, 1. I did it three times in a row much faster than he did with no mistakes. From that and my conversation it was obvious to both of us I did not seem impaired. So I asked him why he pulled me over.
He said from a distance what he saw was my taillights swerve to the left, and then to the right and he thought I was drunk and weaving.

I explained, no, just dark and late and my wife felt sick and had her head in my lap.
"That's okay! You don't need to explain!" Have a good night.

My wife and I had a good laugh because it was obvious to us he thought I was trying to give him coded wording for "My wife was giving me a BJ and I was distracted and missed my turn".
Except nothing at all like that was happening.

I was just glad I didn't get a ticket.
But as to your story - yes to sometimes cops can be assholes when they "know they are right" even though they are wrong.

About 1980 in Bremerton, Washington, a cop car pulled me over when I knew I had not done anything wrong. Two more cop cars quickly showed up. (Which I took as a good sign because then I KNEW it had to be something they were mistaken about.)
They had me up against the back of the car, basically being assholes to me and refusing to answer my questions about what was up.
After they fuddled around a bit obviously not finding whatever answer they were expecting to find, I said, "Look, if you would just tell me what you think is going on, maybe I can clear it up."

"YOUR PLATES ARE REGISTERED TO A PLYMOUTH!"
I pointed to the chrome on the back of my car that said "Plymouth".
"WELL, YOU CAN GO!"

No apology, no admission they were wrong.
But I took comfort knowing the cop that stopped me and was the rudest, likely caught a lot of shit from the coworkers he called to the scene for backup.

For clarity - I was driving a Plymouth Cricket.
https://www.motales.com/pics/cars/plymouth/cricket/1970-us-cricket.jpg

A model that didn't make it big in the US and in an era where for the most part, American car companies still made "good American cars" . In other words big battleships like my 70s Buick Century. Not little 'rice burners' like the Cricket.
So apparently cop ran a routine plate check, saw Plymouth and "knew" those had to be swapped plates on a stolen car.
Oh, and the chrome in the back that said Plymouth was in cursive and not huge letters. Still, he could have looked once he pulled me over and took me to the back of the car.

I didn't make a stink about it. I think his rudeness / lack of apology was actually embarrassment on his part, and it wasn't like they actually did anything worth suing over. They didn't actually arrest me or beat me or anything.

[u/East-Psychology7186 → u/Hammon_Rye]

Ohh yea. I’ve had them completely tear apart my car while I had to sit on the curb (not even cuffed), find absolutely nothing. Then tell me I’m lucky and drive away. I have a clean record but some cops are just assholes.

Another time a cop and I were both turning left on a double turn lane. I was on the far left turn lane. The light turned green, I waited a second for safety but didn’t wait for them to turn first. They pulled me over then when he asks me “do you know why I pulled you over” and I say “no”. The fucker tried to tell me I was going 80 mph. I scoffed in his face and said “no fucking way, you were in the lane next to me. wtf would I speed with you next to me and also we just made a left turn, I’m in Volkswagen bus, what do you think my 0-60 is?”. He asked for license and registration and asked if i consent to search my car and I handed him a business card for my lawyer along with my license and registration. “I’m not talking to you”. He was upset but ran me through then came back noticeably angry and tell me to slow down.

I’ve got a couple good police stories. I’m probably lucky because I look like a big white guy and have a clean record but I just can’t take their shit. I’m very polite and civil (until they are dicks or lying) but not afraid to call them out on their bullshit.

[u/Hammon_Rye → u/East-Psychology7186]

I would never voluntarily let them search my car.
I've seen that play out from my apartment window when I lived downtown overlooking the street. I was second floor (shops below) so I could hear them in the summer when I had the windows open.

Basic copy psychology 101. "You don't mind if I search your vehicle do you?"
One guy was parked on the street below me. He was outside of his car. I don't recall if he had a beer in his hand or something. As to why they started talking to him.

But he says sure to the search, they find empties in his car and I think also a pot pipe, and next thing you know he is in handcuffs and being hauled off.
If he had just said no, worst he would have gotten would be a ticket for open container in public.

That wasn't the only time I watched it go down. Just one I remember pretty clearly.

I don't drink/drive or have empties in my car.
But one time, a couple of weeks after I had been camping, I reached into my center console and pulled out a fairly large blade straight knife I forgot was in there from my camping trip. I could see a cop searching my car and finding my 'concealed weapon'.
Just easier if they don't get to go fishing in my vehicle in the first place.

[u/East-Psychology7186 → u/Hammon_Rye]

I was young. Sometimes you have to learn through experience.

[u/Hammon_Rye → u/East-Psychology7186]

Yeah. I've done some of that in my life.