A night of Drunks

Friday Night.

I knew it was going to be a fun night when seconds after I started my patrol unit, I heard the dispatcher putting out a call where residents were complaining about drug activity on the corner. I arrived on scene behind two other units just in time for the suspect to make a run for it. He was cut off a couple of blocks later as he emerged from behind a house to find the laser from an officers taser pointing at his chest. That laser has an amazing nerve settling effect, but the suspect, while afraid to run, was not ready to just give up. I subdued him and handcuffed him, during the course of which my ear mike got broken. Dammit!

With a full crew out on the road and a trusted friend riding shotgun it wasn't long before I stopped a guy who couldn't manage to keep his truck on the road. After all was said and done he blew a .293. The amazing thing was the guy was standing upright. He claimed to have only consumed one beer. Suuuuuurrre.

Finished up with him, when the state police were calling for assistance with a stolen vehicle that one of the occupants had fled on foot. My partner spotted the suspect hiding a quarter mile away under a semi. We immediately left that call to assist with a crash on the the other end of town that took out a power pole.

The driver of that vehicle was a sheet or two to the wind. Lucky for him, no one was hurt. Before we could complete that call, we had a fire on a power pole and my partner and I departed to go assist, when a vehicle pulled in front of us and nearly caused an accident. I stopped him and you guessed it. "Strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his person."

At the station, I learned that one of my fellow Officers had dealt with a drunk who put his van in the ditch just prior to the call from the State Police about the stolen vehicle.

Was it a full moon? Not sure, but I love the excitement and energy on busy nights like that. I don't like the drunks being on the road and I take great pleasure in catching them.

God I love this job.

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