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Daft Dispatch Priorities Deny Apprehension of Drunk Driver

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"Sir, You're Not Allowed to Use Your Phone While Driving"

RETIRED CANADIAN MOUNTIE ROB LAIRD couldn't believe what he was hearing while he was reporting a drunk driver to dispatchers in Alberta.  Laird was driving one recent night when he saw a car weaving dangerously along the road.  He tells Canoe News:  "Completely over into the left-hand lane forcing vehicles to take the ditch and shoulder, then back again and down into the other ditch where I thought 'he'll end it here and roll it' but this went on for a long ways.  Finally we pulled up to a traffic light by Okotoks and stopped so I wrote the licence plate down and phoned 911."

He reported what he had observed along with the plate number and said that he was following the car.  But he wasn't ready for what he heard next from the dispatcher.  Canoe.ca continues:

Laird said he was told not to follow the vehicle any longer as he was breaking the law himself.

"She said 'are you on hands-free?' and I said 'no, I'm not' and she says 'sir, I want you to hang up because you are breaking the law and I want you to cease following that vehicle.'"

Laird didn't listen, however, and after hanging up, said he followed the SUV to Black Diamond. "I watched him get out and stagger and fall and grab his golf clubs out of the trunk and stagger into the house and basically get away with this crime," he said.

Given the gravity of the situation, Laird said the police should have been more worried about a potential drunk driver than his holding a cell phone to his ear.

Laird-the-Lawbreaker displays his cellphone.
(Wells / QMI photo)

No police ever did show up and Laird is befuddled.  Now that the incident is public, the police are doing some double-clutching and claiming that they have already "opened an investigation" into the incident.

Read the full STORY HERE.

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Posted by on September 24, 2011 • Filed under: dispatch, News • Tagged: , ,

Drunk Drives Into Parked Phoenix Pumper

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Didn't Notice All Those Bright, Flashing Lights?

PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FIREFIGHTERS were on the scene of a working fire Monday night around 10 pm Mountain when a man drove his car into the rear of one of the engines that were staged at the scene.

KPHO-TV

Damage was minimal to both vehicles and fortunately the driver piled into the tailboard just before the pump operator had stepped into the area to connect his supply line.

The fire was in a top floor storage room of a 2-story commercial facility and was easily handled with a single hose line.  The driver of the car was arrested for DUI and given a free ride in a police cruiser.

KSAZ-TV Ch. 10 had a camera on the scene:

 

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Posted by on September 6, 2011 • Filed under: apparatus, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: , , ,

Corvette Stuck In Ocean After Witnesses Report Seeing It Doing ‘Doughnuts’

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FossilMedic weeps for a drowned 2009 Hertz Corvette:

From 10news.com:
Beach Joyriders Get Rented Corvette Stuck In Ocean

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police Friday are investigating an incident in Pacific Beach in which someone drove a yellow Corvette onto the beach and left the pricey vehicle stuck in the ocean.

The incident occurred near Crystal Pier around 9:10 p.m. Thursday, San Diego police said.

According to police, witnesses reported seeing the $50,000-car doing “doughnuts” and “spin-outs” on the sand before it became stuck.

When police arrived, the three occupants ran from the scene. Two of the occupants — a husband, 39, and his 36-year-old wife — were detained and sent to detox for public intoxication. Their names were not released because they were not arrested.

Police thought someone might have been trapped in — or under — the car so firefighters and a helicopter were summoned for a possible rescue attempt. Lifeguards also helped in the search.

Police haven’t been able to locate the suspected driver but if they are able to identify him, he may have to pay for the cost of the police, helicopter and fire department response.

go HERE to read the entire article, get the story of how a stranger was driving the Vette and see another video.

Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

Posted by on October 17, 2010 • Filed under: cars, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: , , , ,

Drunk Drives Head-on Into Ambulance

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A DRUNK DRIVER STEERED HIS CAR DIRECTLY INTO a head-on collision with a Grainger County EMS ambulance near Knoxville, Tennessee, late Friday night.  WVLT-TV reports that:

It happened around 8:30 p.m. while the ambulance was traveling south on N. Broadway. It had just stopped in the turn lane to continue onto Mineral Springs Avenue when a black Chevrolet Impala headed north crossed the center line and ran head-on into it.

Officers confirmed the driver of the Impala was drunk. He was arrested for several charges including fourth offense DUI, driving on a revoked license, refusing to take a field sobriety test, failure to maintain his lane, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Nobody was injured and the ambulance only suffered minor damages.  The police said that the driver’s female passenger was also arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

Posted by on November 22, 2009 • Filed under: ambulances, EMS Topics • Tagged: , , , ,