Me and another officer are chilling in the front parking lot of an Exxon, leaning on my buddy's unit sipping a cold water shooting the sheet.
A junk car pulls up one parking spot over from us with a March 2010 MVi sticker. Well this guy gets out (wearing a Houston Fire Dept. sweater) and proceeds to stumble to the front door of the Exxon. The sign on the door said they were closed for ten minutes due to whatever. So he reads it and stumbles back to the car. I look at my buddy and with that odd look, "this can't be happening." I walk up to him and say, "Hey man, you been drinking?" He replies, "Yea, just let me make it home man." I then asked him if he was drunk and he quickly replies with a "Yeah."
He refuses HGN because his "friend is a lawyer and told him not to do the HGN part" so we skipped that one. I get 6 out of 8 clues in the walk and turn (he didn't even try to turn) and I got 3 on the one leg stand. I asked him to say F through Q. He messed that all up with a "F T U V W X Y Z".
He begged me to let him find a way home, but he had 4 convictions (5 DWI arrests total) so off to the hospital we went for a mandatory blood draw.
This guy lived about ~1 mile from this gas station. We were in full uniform leaning against a clearly marked patrol unit with decals and a light bar. We weren't hiding. And he parks less than ten feet from us. I'm still in shock.
A junk car pulls up one parking spot over from us with a March 2010 MVi sticker. Well this guy gets out (wearing a Houston Fire Dept. sweater) and proceeds to stumble to the front door of the Exxon. The sign on the door said they were closed for ten minutes due to whatever. So he reads it and stumbles back to the car. I look at my buddy and with that odd look, "this can't be happening." I walk up to him and say, "Hey man, you been drinking?" He replies, "Yea, just let me make it home man." I then asked him if he was drunk and he quickly replies with a "Yeah."
He refuses HGN because his "friend is a lawyer and told him not to do the HGN part" so we skipped that one. I get 6 out of 8 clues in the walk and turn (he didn't even try to turn) and I got 3 on the one leg stand. I asked him to say F through Q. He messed that all up with a "F T U V W X Y Z".
He begged me to let him find a way home, but he had 4 convictions (5 DWI arrests total) so off to the hospital we went for a mandatory blood draw.
This guy lived about ~1 mile from this gas station. We were in full uniform leaning against a clearly marked patrol unit with decals and a light bar. We weren't hiding. And he parks less than ten feet from us. I'm still in shock.
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