Thank God you got em before they killed a family of 6 with their stupidity...
When I was in law enforcement drunks were my stickler. I would let a few things go here and there situationally but DUI's got taken care of by the book.
I still get a bunch of crap from certain friends of mine over arresting a friend of ours that I caught. At the time Michigan's law stated that .10 was legally intoxicated. He was .25 and stumbling drunk..
I can honestly say that I may have just drove him home and left it at that. But, a few days earlier I got to see first hand what a drunks careless ways do to innocent people.
I had the non-pleasure of being the first on the scene at a MVA with 2 fatalities. The drunk was driving a big Chevy SUV and had T-boned a much smaller 1987 Plymouth Horizon. It was a classic T-bone style accident the Horizon had the right of way via the green light and started to proceed through the intersection the SUV ran the red light and slammed into the driver side of the Horizon. Both the occupants of the Horizon were killed instantly I'd say. I won't describe what I saw but it was almost the ugliest thing I'd ever seen (Next to the crash of Northwest Flight 255 at Detroit Metro Airport which was just horrific) The fire department took about 35 minutes to cut the wreckage away before we could even remove what was left of the occumpants.
After seeing that I would have jailed my own father had I caught him DUI and although my dad has never been a drinker he was told the same.
Go 40cal!
