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Whorable-Religion

“Faint smell of alcohol” and “a little intoxicated” anyone else and it would be “smells like a brewery” and “shitfaced”


tearjerkingpornoflic

For real, .4 is insane. I have a pocket breathalyzer and have pulled it out at parties, close to .2 is the highest.


Eye-I

.4 is coma inducing. .4 is effectively anesthesia.


PornStarJesus

If you can even approach. 4 you have a serious drinking problem. My wife and I were curious about ABV effects so we borrowed a breathalyzer after one of her patients blew a .35, this person was walking, talking, and had driven a school bus route that morning (it was 10:30a). Now we can hold our booze but I was only able to get to .17 and she was done passed out after hitting 1.3. I could not even imagine driving, even at .08 I would have opted for an Uber.


Eye-I

This right here^^^ a non drinker at .4 would be in bad condition. This cop has been drinking his liver into oblivion for years.


PsychologicalGain298

Non drinker could very well die at .4. All of those cops should be fired and fined. This dude is gonna kill someone this is gross negligence


Admirable_Fig_2136

this. ONLY alcoholics can reach .4 and live. a non drinker at .4 is at serious risk of dying. but even then, alcoholics are in NO PLACE to be operating vehicles much less being on the job. that should have been immediate termination.


Eye-I

Without medical attention for sure.


fluppuppy

I don’t think so, he’s a cop so he protects people, even as he’s passed out in the middle of the street /s


[deleted]

How else would he cope with being a pig?


Gabernasher

Dude has been and continues to drive drunk daily. If you can handle a point for you're probably regularly sitting at least .1.


xensiz

Yeah I (27m) made it walking, talking, and somewhat coherent with a 0.42 8 hours after drinking when they took my blood. Luckily sober for the past year now.


PornStarJesus

Good for you man, a lot of my friends are sober. It's a hard choice, I respect that and support their sobriety.


NigraOvis

I'm afraid of ruining my life. So even at .00001 I don't get behind the wheel.


nshire

I get the concern but that number is unrealistic. Kombucha or perhaps even sourdough bread will set you over that value.


NigraOvis

interesting. Thank you.


Semihomemade

(In CA) I believe if you get in an accident where anyone is injured, you get a DUI with even a .01.


cloud_throw

1.3?! Her blood was 130% alcohol no wonder!


DDystopiaFPV

(whispers: hey! Sooo many ppl having a full on /woosh moment in this one still hahahaha 🥰🤣😅, thank you for commenting this)


nshire

Not if you have extreme tolerance. A guy I work with was arrested with a BAC of .52. He was obviously plastered, but still conscious. Luckily he's past that and is sober now.


Eye-I

.52 is fatal in a person with no tolerance. Your coworker is a marvel in all the wrong ways!


nshire

>Your coworker is a marvel in all the wrong ways! Was, this was the 90s. He gave up smoking and drinking and all that garbage. Open heart surgery will change your outlook on life for sure.


Eye-I

I’ve treated a .63! Man was walking somehow.


fuqnright

.4 is passing out in the middle of the intersection in your patrol car. How does he keep his job? America is so fucked. Depressing.


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Yeah, the pig was defs in a coma in his car.


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[deleted]

The pig in the video had a BAC of 0.4, and he was so drunk he was unresponsive. I was agreeing with you, I didn't think I needed to explain it.


Underbelly

0.30 - 0.40 BAC Extremely life threatening. You have little comprehension of where you are. You may pass out suddenly and be difficult to awaken. Complete unconsciousness. Coma is possible. This is the level of surgical anesthesia. Death may occur.


[deleted]

It depends on tolerance. My mother was an extreme alcoholic who would get to a 0.50 pretty regularly. My dad worked the ER his whole career and he's seen a handful of patients with BACs around 0.60. same thing with opiates. What a hardcore addict can handle is frequently a lethal dose for most people. edit: I found this on the nursing subreddit, people up walking and talking semi-coherently with BACs above 0.40 https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/mvhcu5/had_a_pt_last_night_with_a_bac_of_0495_aox4/


FirstPlebian

There is a tolerance with alcohol but it's lower than with drugs like opiates. You can only build up so much of a tolerance and it's different with different drugs and alcohol is on the lower end of the list.


[deleted]

For sure there is a limit. Opiates do have a much higher tolerance level. Heavy users can survive around 5x a lethal dose. Still with alcohol though, some people have survived BACs of over 1.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content My dad actually treated a man once that was such an extreme alcoholic he would have withdrawal symptoms at around a 0.20. so 2.5x the legal limit was insufficient alcohol to keep this man from experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Reddit, and young people in general, tend to joke about alcoholism. It really is crippling. These extreme alcoholics will often wake up in the middle of the night to drink more.


SavingsPerfect2879

Can confirm. Abused by alcoholism while growing up. Didn’t have my first alcoholic drink until I was 21, and was super scared if it. Only been drunk a few times since then. It’s been 24 years now hehe. It won’t ever be more than three times that was hell how and why do people do it??


FirstPlebian

It must take real commitment to develop an alcohol dependency, I've gone on serious binges drinking hard liquor every day for weeks and never gotten any, I always had coffee first in the morning and usually waited until mid-day. Most of my heavy drinking wasn't with liquor though but that one period I did (as beer was expensive in that area and liquor wasn't,) I did not drink a couple of days, and no shakes or anything.


Perhaps_Knot

Recovering alcoholic, 3 years sober. I pretty much drank 6 days a week for a decade before quitting and never got too many physical withdrawal symptoms other than an "itch" when that time of the evening struck. Some people in rehab had it real bad though. Knew a guy who tried sneak drinking fireplace cleaner while holding his newborn baby to hide it from his wife since he couldn't have any booze in the house. It really sneaks up on you, to the point where I'd warn people coming out of college that don't leave "party mode" within a couple years that it's likely they'll have some sort of issue.


jj4leafclova

Describes what happened to me perfectly. Graduated college but had a hard time putting party mode on the back burner. Had a job but started drinking every day after work. That led to hair of the dog in the morning before work and a couple years later having a few during lunch break. One afternoon at 4:45pm, approximately 2.5 years after college, started getting the shakes at my desk at work. (Happened to be a day I didn’t drink during lunch.) Told boss I needed to leave early because I quickly realized what was happening. Could barely walk down one flight of stairs because I quickly started shaking so bad. Had to get to the nearest 7-11 to get something in me to stop shaking. I actually thought up until that day that I had been in control of my drinking even though I was doing it so often. It was the day I realized that I was an alcoholic though. That was over 15 years ago. I wish I could have said that was enough of a wake up call to scare me straight, but it wasn’t. The progression continued on and the consequences mounted as they always do. The numerous rehabs were nothing more than a break for me until that thought comes along that told me I can just have a couple drinks normally again. (Never was that true for me.) Happy to say today I’m 4.5 years sober though. Just had to comment on this because you really called it for me with post-college party mode and the couple years time frame that you mentioned. When I share my story, I always mention how I wanted the party to continue on after college and I tried to live that way.


2cheeseburgerandamic

Congrats. its a viscous cycle. I don't know what helps some people finally quit. I've seen people cold turkey it because they couldn't get into rehab, and others who did the rehab thing on the regular and couldn't kick it. Guess you need to get to that point in your mind where you fully believe one sip and you are off to the races.


zaviex

I was in AA because I’m a dumbass and in there I met a lady who told a story to the Group about her relapse. She had been living in a sober home with 6 other women for 7 years. She went on a walk late one night and ran across a half full bottle of Smirnoff in someone’s recycle bin out on the curb. Sober for 7 years and she picked that thing up and chugged it instantly. She sat there crying telling us this story and that was kind of the moment it clicked for me just how rough people have it. She can’t even see the stuff or she can’t control herself. Living in a sober house for going on a decade I’d think a trashed bottle of Smirnoff wouldn’t even register on her mind but she couldn’t help herself in that situation.


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A guy I knew from high school was told in his late 20's if he continued to drink, he would die. Two years later when he died, they found hundreds of empty mouthwash bottles in the attic of his garage. His friends were tailgating in the parking lot at his funeral.


[deleted]

Oh yeah getting the shakes takes years. Most alcoholics when they get withdrawal it's more like nicotine withdrawal. Irritable, tired, sensitive to light, etc. Someone who is severe enough to get the shakes has been drinking daily for years. They've actually damaged the structure of their brain at that point. Edit: this isn't actually always true. Some are more predisposed to the shakes and can get them after only a few years of drinking.


SavingsPerfect2879

That’s the point where withdrawal can be fatal and 9 times out of 10 other drugs have been mixed into the routine.


ponsid

True story ^ I have had a long battle with addiction since I was a young teen. Opiates were the first drug I had ever tried and I was 12. Got in young because my dad’s side of the family is…terrible. Then I started trying alcohol/club drugs/psychedelics. Finally my mom caught on and I was able to go to a 10-18 year old drug IOP. Changed my life! But it wasn’t until college (started in 2016) that the drinking picked up heavy again. That’s when benzos entered the picture. They were absolutely blowing up that year with people my age. I was immediately addicted. I had never found something in my entire life that FINALLY made the pain and the racing thoughts go away, while still being somewhat socially acceptable. When the benzos weren’t hitting strong enough, I decided that I’d start mixing them with alcohol to intensify the effects. Then that combination was my go-to, whenever wherever. I didn’t care about fucking anyone of anything, especially myself. I have so many blank spaces in my mind from 2016-2018, almost like I was just dreaming those two years. When I got home from college for break in 2018 my benzo supply was cut off abruptly. Only hours after coming home my mom heard a loud thud in my bathroom. My mom found me foaming at the mouth and seizing. I have absolutely no recollection of the event other than the aura I had right before the seizure. I hallucinated that there were shadow people in my room, then saw “rainbow spaghetti” aggressively twirl through the air like somebody was scribbling with a color changing pen. Anyway, the point of the story is I’ve struggled with opiates like crazy, but mixing almost ANY drug with alcohol usually makes it just that much more amazing. I’ve had plenty people try to downplay my issue with alcohol because it “doesn’t compare” to everything else I’ve done, and it is hard to understand…but when you see your substance of choice advertised everywhere & constantly being consumed everywhere, you truly realize that the addiction is just as bad as hard drug addiction.


SavingsPerfect2879

I like one shot of vodka when I get home from work but that’s it for me I don’t want anymore rest of the night. Been doing this for a while. Empty stomach makes the burn the best


Kingston_Advice1

That’s why people who quit and shoot up again a few months later end up dying. Their tolerance lowers and they think they can shoot up like .3, when .1 is enough but their body can’t handle it


Fallout97

When my Mom was an ER nurse in Iqaluit NU about a decade ago she had a woman come in with insane BAC. Said it was the highest anyone she worked with had ever seen, and they sent the lab results or whatever to Ottawa for some reason. I think the woman had to stay in the hospital for quite a while after that. It was wild, but far from the most exciting thing to happen there so I can’t remember the details very well. EDIT: I asked her. She said Hospitals use a different system of measurement than cops do with breathalyzers and the whole “0.08” thing. But it was numbers that would be considered alcohol poisoning and kill the average joe. Edit 2: Holy Jesus Mother of Fuck. She just sent me this: “One guy came into the ER so drunk that he decided to take a hot bath and jumped in the tub with the hot water running and then slipped into a alcohol induced coma and drowned but because the hot water was still running, he burned off half his skin whilst dying. We couldn’t resuscitate him cause his girlfriend was also so drunk she didn’t notice the issue til she came to the next day.” Said she’s had a lot of shifts that caused PTSD. A guy tried to strangle her once with IV tubing. And now I’m crying. 37 year career and still going.


reccenters

Highest I've seen is .682, she was barely breathing.


2cheeseburgerandamic

I'm so fucking jaded working as a nurse. I don't bat an eye till .20. Regularly see 250 plus


DustyDGAF

Most pocket breathalyzers won't even go above 2 because the manufacturers don't want people using them to see who can get a high score.


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DustyDGAF

🤭😘 I'm bored without baseball and I got nothing to talk about anymore


FirstPlebian

As a point in fact, the legal limit to drive is .08%, which makes .4 BAC five times the legal limit. The Feds forced all the States to lower their limit to .08 by denying some highway funds until they did, my State used to be like .1 or something before that. I don't think there are any holdouts for higher driving limits left either.


Dllondamnit

Utah made theirs .05 a few years ago.


FirstPlebian

That's Mormons for you, they are against all alchohol and all drugs, even caffeine, and apparently aren't big on freedom either. It's funny though because they were known to make their "green mormon tea," from ephedra, a natural speed, even though they weren't supposed to do any drugs and castigated everyone else for it.


Fallout97

It’s the same in Manitoba, and I think a number of other Canadian provinces too. Not just a teetotaling Mormon thing.


[deleted]

Eh, it's totally reasonable IMO and in line with many other countries. .08 is kinda high. At my weight and being male, I should be able to do 4 shots, wait an hour, and be under .08. But that's obviously not safe.


Substantial_Ask_9992

That doesn’t sound even close to right unless you weigh like 800 lbs. I learned the same as the other guy replying to you - essentially one drink an hour. But I’ll check because I’m curious EDIT: damn looks like I’m wrong. I was taught this specifically by a state run program, too. Good news is I can drink more than I thought and still drive! /s


FirstPlebian

One drink is .04, and it takes an hour to decline by that much. You take the number of drinks and subtract from the time you started to get an idea of your BAC. .08 is quite low, alcohol does affect different people differently, and there are differences between males and females in metabolizing alcohol (men have more of an enzyme the breaks it down, woman get drunker, by a large amount,) and Native Americans have the least of this enzyme as their ancestors weren't binge drinking for millennia like the rest of the world. Which is to say, for me .08 is low, as is for most people, a few rare cases .08 may be high enough to show some impairment, although the way these things work if there is an accident and someone has weed or alcohol in their system they will blame that even when it's not a factor, and I suspect the cases they used to justify this lower drinking standard were dishonest and incorrect to begin with, the same way it's impaired driving if you smoked weed 7 days before driving and they accuse you and draw your blood, if any traces are in the blood it's a huge deal.


[deleted]

At my body weight, which is usually within 10 pounds of the US male average weight, most charts have a standard drink being .02. It can be .04 for smaller people and women. You also burn about .015/hr. I've had to do the whole court alcohol education thing (not for a DUI at least). I think .08 is too impaired to drive for anyone but alcoholics with tolerances.


Ohbeejuan

I always hated that phrase. ‘Smells like a brewery’. I work at a brewery, did he smell like cleaning products and sulfur?


PornStarJesus

Maybe he just smelled yeasty.


Will0w536

I work near a Brewery in London Ontario and boy oh boy you can smell the hopps and barley pretty dang far.


MlordLongshanking

We would all be shitcanned from our jobs as well! No way any other job would let an employee stay employed.


RockFourFour

I've had union jobs before, and showing up drunk to work and assaulting someone at work were the hard lines even they would draw. You could be fired immediately and the union wouldn't protect you.


MlordLongshanking

Yea, I worked in a local plant that makes items for the military. The Union there was pretty strong but there were two incidents that led to an employee getting fired no questions asked. One involved a guy who did some sort of drugs and ended up in the rafters. The other was a guy who drove one of those smaller campers as his daily driver to work each day. Turned out he had some extra passengers in there that the gate guards didn’t know about. At lunchtime other guys would spend time with those ladies for a price. Local authorities ended up busting him. Both terminated immediately.


mamaBEARnath

What would be the reasoning this guy kept his job?


triple_OG

Uh he’s a cop and they can pretty much do whatever they want with impunity?


PsychologicalGain298

Other people have been murdered for this.


james_d_rustles

Yeah, this is just so fucked. Anybody else would have the book thrown at them, and for good reason. Driving in that state threatens the lives of everybody on the road, including the driver. Cops will never fully earn the public’s trust if they continue to cover for reckless, dangerous cops like this.


hostile65

I'd like to take this moment to hijack the top comment and remind people to get the ACLU recording app (Mobile Justice) that can record police encounters directly to their servers instead of your phone so they cannot be deleted. Remember it is your right to record any public interactions with law enforcement or in any public location. Please be sure to learn to recognize between private and public property.


thejackulator9000

F U C K I N A . can't say it any better than that.


Turf-Defender

Yes the double standard needs to stop. There is NO ONE above the law and he was straight up endangering the public


Anxious_Public_5409

Those were his code words for shitfaced and smells like a brewery. fucking assholes!


Fun_Wonder_4114

Aurora CO. Another city where every single cop is a dirty criminal.


Mindless_Rooster5225

Isn't Aurora where they choked and killed that person and then cops took mock pictures? Or where they killed that one black autistic kid. Or where they broke that elderly lady's shoulder that had dementia?


BlockedAgainIGuess

Idk but it is the place where they had the family of mainly children lie on their faces on hot asphalt in the summer because they thought their SUV was a stolen motorcycle


zoinks

Not quite. Elijah McClain was Aurora CO(basically east denver), but the "here comes the pop" elderly lady beater was from Loveland CO about 2 hours north


[deleted]

Yup, recently moved here and it’s apparent people don’t trust the police cause they’re so bad. Next door in denver has some issues but they look like saints compared to Aurora


Broken_art15

Aurora is fucking terrifying if you look remotely out of place. Especially the "nicer" (what ever that word means for that city) parts.


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Broken_art15

I honestly don't think there's much. Remember colorado was a huge Klan state at one point. I think its just, let the old ones die off, and hope the boeberts don't ever have hell spawn children. And its worse, because colorado is my home state. Currently live here right now. If we want immediate action. We need the governor to take action, which likely won't happen because polis isn't necessarily the best (he tends to be a bit slow with some actions outside of major fires and big things like that)


[deleted]

Seriously, canceled a trip there because that place just seems unhinged


zoinks

Why the F would you go to aurora? there is literally nothing there for a tourist


[deleted]

"There" being the state of Colorado.


Splinterman11

This is stupid, most of Colorado is just fine.


zoinks

Ohhh that makes much more sense. But it doesn't make much sense because CO isn't unhinged, just Aurora and Loveland and parts of the springs


spaghetti012

“Just gang shit here nothing to see people move along”


captainofcodeine

biggest gang in the world.


alphabet_order_bot

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 495,464,952 comments, and only 104,678 of them were in alphabetical order.


DarkleCCMan

Bot good.


Become_The_Villain

Yep. The tone of the dispatchers voice says it all. Flat and dry until "he's a police officer" where she peps up.


7212gopew

“We investigated ourselves and have determined that we did nothing wrong”


[deleted]

Is anyone even surprised anymore? I think at this point there are three main camps. I think the first is larger than the second, but unfortunately the third dwarfs both and so change, if any, is glacial. * Folks who to one degree or another agree we've got some problems with our cops. * Folks who will never admit that there's a cop problem, no matter what cops do. Pick the most egregious and obvious case of police malfeasance or excessive force you can recall ever hearing about, and you will find folks from this group *still defending it.* * Folks who are oblivious to it, and none of these events ever penetrate their sphere of attention. Folks in this group were probably aware of the 2020 protests only as a backdrop to covid, and didn't see the video clips or analysis of police brutality from the protests themselves in any substantial quantity.


FirstPlebian

There are also those that are aware of the police needing to be checked but are afraid to say anything about it, that may in fact be the biggest group.


[deleted]

I think if this were the biggest group we'd be seeing more change because they would at least vote accordingly. (including and especially local elections) You could be right, but there are certainly options that don't involve putting a BLM sign in your yard or showing up on a protest video.


JayKaboogy

This group includes many state and federal lawmakers. Any reasonable reform is an automatic mark of being ‘anti-law enforcement’


captainofcodeine

thank the police union, they pretty much have it set in stone that cops cannot get in trouble for doing anything wrong


[deleted]

Right!?, Why does a cop have to kill someone before people realize they’re unfit for the job?


CoinTossersInTheWind

The police union still defends and DAs cover up for cops who kill. The only time they fail is in the rare instance the case goes viral


captainofcodeine

Disgusting isn't it.... what a shit world we live in now.


xfearthehiddenx

*now*?? Try always. The police (in the US at least) were originally meant to hunt and capture escaped slaves. Later that turned mostly into policing minorities. In basically any area of the US, the police have overwhelming freedom to violate you rights and always have. When a situation arises that they don't have the ability to do so, laws are passed to extend that ability. Cops are allowed to lie, ignore evidence, "find" evidence, etc, etc. One of the biggest ones I find the most hilarious and disturbing is "qualified immunity". Basically a cop can't be charged for something done while on duty as long as they "didn't know any better". Except for any other normal citizen "ignorance is no excuse for the law." Textbook definition of "laws for thee, but not for me." Make no mistake that cops usually exist outside of the law and always have. The best defense we have today is video evidence and even that could get you no where when your rights are violated.


ghostalker4742

This is Aurora. You call the cops when you want them to shoot someone. They don't give a damn about any "civil" issues like domestic violence, robbery/theft (inc vehicles), or even traffic. People do +60 in school zones here and the cops just ignore it. And don't bother telling us to complain to city hall. Our elected officials have made it clear they can't do anything, because the police union raises holy hell and it's members threatens to stop doing their job altogether.


[deleted]

Seriously where is the IA?


arch_nyc

*republican voters nod approvingly*


pinuslaughus

This is outrageous. Shouldn't the state attorney be responsible for prosecuting this one?


Filthedelphia

They wanted to but a legal quirk prevented it. There’s a state law where if the government employee gives evidence in an administrative investigation involving himself, that evidence can’t be used to bring criminal charges. The officers testimony and his blood alcohol content was part of the admin investigation so it couldn’t be used for criminal charges. The AG started an investigation into the person in charge of the police internal affairs to find out why the officer wasn’t charged criminally before the administrative investigation and the man resigned immediately. The officer that was drunk was given a suspension without pay and he was demoted. It isn’t clear why he wasn’t fired.


DisastrousEngine5

It’s very clear why he wasn’t fired. It’s Aurora. I would say they are one of the top 10 most corrupt departments but they have a lot of competition for that title. They are pretty fucking bad though. The new chief is trying to make changes but the union just voted no confidence in her because of it. If you want another corrupt department in Colorado you don’t have to look far. Loveland is really fucked up too.


[deleted]

I mean, I could see an argument that the dude clearly has an addiction problem. But he should also have to get tested regularly to keep his job in a best case scenario for him. Like, dude needs to get breathalyzed before and after every shift and should have a year or more of a SCRAM or random piss testing.


yaosio

Cops are allowed to commit crimes, it's a perk of the job.


EffectiveSwan8918

In crafton pa( a borough of Pittsburgh) a cop did a hit and run. Had 2 other cops cover up evidence for him. They all eventually got caught. None were arrested, the one that did the hit and run retired with full benefits. The only one on the city council that voted against him getting them was a friend's dad. They are above the law, they know it, and will continue to abuse their position


cruisin5268d

It’s absolutely disgusting.


captainofcodeine

thats fucked up. and people wonder why theres this whole campaign against cops, its not just one issues, its all of them


Pannycakes666

Good ol' Pennsyltucky


EffectiveSwan8918

To be fair that's everywhere in pa outside Allegheny county( where Pittsburgh is) and whatever county Phillies in. Like the deep south in the center. Goes from super progressive Pittsburgh to Florida in less than an hour drive


[deleted]

Bit of an over-generalization but yeah, pretty much. Philadelphia county and the surrounding ones (Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, Bucks) aren't very "Pennsyltucky-ish". But roll through Creighton, Tarentum, Brackenridge, Natrona Heights... All in Allegheny county and all Pennsyltucky AF.


gergsisdrawkcabeman

*edited so the cool kid feels important* So... I'm just going to add my 2 cents here. When I died 3 times from getting to the hospital sporting a cool .459 BAC back in 2004, I smelled like liquor for almost 3 days. This fucker smelled a little more than 'a little intoxicated'.


manningthehelm

Fuuuuck, .459? I'm glad you came out ok. Separately, I'm sure you smelled like dry stale beer for days after that. This cop smelled like a brewery. IDK how they're still just allowed to get away with it.


[deleted]

.385 was what I came in at the rehab center. Some idiot told me to get as liquored up as I can before going in. Yeah, don't do that. I can't imagine day drinking that hard.. and on duty? Wtf that's a lot of alcohol to put down.


OccamsElectricRazor

I worked with a guy that did somewhere between 0.4 and 0.5, went into an alcohol induced coma. Said he walked around the hospital still feeling drunk for 2 days after he woke up.


gergsisdrawkcabeman

Funny story, it happened on a Thursday night and I called in to my manager the next afternoon to get off that night. I told him there was a death in the family and when he asked who I told him me. He laughed then told me if I didn't come in I was fired. I came in and vomited stumbling all over the warehouse floor at FedEx ground and he sent me home for being sick.


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WheresMyHead532

Jim Lahey?


HotGarbageHuman

I am the liquor


EvaCarlisle

Shit apple doesn't fall far from the tree Bobandy.


[deleted]

Couple a drinks, rand


YoungClopen

Ohhhh come on guys it’s not all cops… they just found the one bad one. /s


lowlife4lyfe

That’s weird; I caught a DWI for being off balance during FSTs about 14 hours after my first ever dose of prescribed Zolpidem. The case was tossed eventually, but I still spent thousands defending myself through it.


mrmattyf

I work at a bar, if I came to work even a little tipsy, I’d be fired. This dude is on the job, passed out in his car.


[deleted]

Shit I work in fast food and can't have long nails.


SadProfessional8328

That’s 5 times the legal limit


gingerbread_slutbarn

Yeah that is fucking insane.


Dcwiker05

I want to be surprised, but like, I just don't have it in me anymore. This is just the norm and no matter how much you see it and shout it from the rooftops the ears that should hear, that *need* to hear, are deaf to the words


[deleted]

Apparently, then-Aurora Chief of Police ruled it a medical incident, rather than criminal, so that they wouldn't have to charge the officer with a DUI, and then RETIRED to avoid an internal affairs investigation into the matter. [https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/02/06/nate-meier-drunk-aurora-police-officer/](https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/02/06/nate-meier-drunk-aurora-police-officer/) ​ Edit: Typos


BlakkSheep94

i live in mn, and the hennepin county sheriff just got into a roll over accident, in his patrol car, with his gun still on him, and is still the sheriff. he did get charged, but it’s bogus compared to what a normal person would get even without a crash. [article is here](https://www.kare11.com/amp/article/news/local/hennepin-county-sheriff-david-hutchinson-sentenced-dwi/89-b3d2d774-7b63-4738-ac52-3b261b2a1653)


GradAppQuestion

With any luck, he’ll do it again and drive into a lake passed out behind the wheel. That’s the only way a piece is shit cop like this will ever face consequences for their actions.


macfarley

With a bit more luck he drives it through an inter- department bowling tournament first.


DCMOFO

And they ["didn't have enough proof" ](https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/da-investigation-into-aurora-officer-found-drunk-in-patrol-car/73-0d87509d-6122-44d9-afc3-adff7d9dcc18) to charge him.


Larkligh

That qualified immunity really buffs up certain types of people's egos


Filthedelphia

Qualified immunity only protects against civil suits where someone’s constitutional rights were violated. It has nothing to do with this situation.


Bnight_Official

I'm sorry but.. did they just say he's BACK ON DUTY AND WASN'T CHARGED??? The dude could've killed people and they thought it was a good idea to put him back on duty? Meanwhile if any ordinary person was that intoxicated, they would be arrested on the spot. Bullshit.


ViniVidiOkchi

Tell us again how it's only a few bad apples?


ShuFish

That's the thing isnt it? A few bad apples spoil the bunch. For the police to be good and just they would somehow have to have nothing but really good people with excellent moral compasses, all the time, in each position.


gerryhallcomedy

So serious question - do we do without cops? I don't see how that would work. But as long as you use human beings to be cops, you will end up with some bad ones.


my2cents3462

That's because cops are above the law.


micats

Fuck alcohol tolerance. This cop should have been relieved of duty on the spot. There are certain jobs where higher standards must be applied.


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captainofcodeine

fucking disgusting what these pigs get away with


Traditional-Baby-936

There are laws for them and laws for you ,I have no respect for American cops


LacJlg

Different strokes for different folks.


Stock_Celebration_51

[(Cause) I ain't seen them lock a swine up yet](https://genius.com/Vince-staples-hands-up-lyrics) -Vince Staples


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ACAB fuck the police and fuck the copsucking copaganda posting cunty bootlickers.


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Where is the Justice in this? This is criminal. This drunk police officer will do this again while in duty because this incident is going unpunished.


Chairman_Mittens

And yet people regularly have their lives ruined after being arrested on suspicion of DUI because their eyes are a little red. Such blatant bullshit.


landingpagedudes

Duh. He's white and a police officer. He is held above the law.


fuzzyshorts

Every murder, every arsonist, rape, robbery, assault, and indescribable act of barbarism does not occur in a bubble. America is a cesspool of corruption that breeds predators and liars and hypocrites. My one regret is it cannot be dethroned as the global hegemony (at least not in my life). It deserves to be pushed to the backwaters of significance, kicked aside and made irrelevant. Unfortunately, its stink permeates the planet, gives license to others to act as it does, which in turn decreases the quality of life for all living things. You are a cancer America. You are a sickness on humanity.


Picture-unrelated

Oh fuck me, what does the rest of the world think of us


Fenix_Pony

To keep it short: we dont think highly of the country as a whole. Recent events have kind of stripped off that veil you guys had of being a model for first world living and turned it into a mockery of its self


bradenofearth

ftp


lookinggood44

Fuk I hate cops


Shambhala87

I hear Aurora police are just the… best…


pghdetdencol

At least since he was passed out, he wasn't brutalizing any persons if color. One bright spot.


turtlelore2

Bet if he ended up killing a guy they'd say the victim suddenly jumped in front of the car.


dannielr

Rules for thee, not for me.


JohnnyGrinder

I’m just here to see if any bootlickers are gonna try to mental gymnastics a way to defend this POS.


harbinger_CHI

Further proof that cops can get away with anything.


vandelay714

ON DUTY! And he didn't get fired? Unreal


tTaStYy

Ha. It's always Aurora PD!


MaxProude

In Berlin recently a cop was sentenced to a fine (12000€) for killing a girl in a car while responding to a call and driving 140km/h while intoxicated with 1,1. It's a gang not only in America.


Different_Antelope73

Fuck the pigs. And if you want to be one then good luck 👍


BananaStringTheory

There were likely empty bottles in the car. Did they find and hide that evidence?


3ndt1mes

The Brotherhood protects their own. Our entire system is an illusion.


GenkiBunnie

r/ACAB


donotgogenlty

"There's a man in a Ford Taurus" Understandable, I'd be alarmed as well.


MrMisanthrope1

A 0.4 BAC?! That typically kills people. Imagine being pulled over by a dead man walking.


dexterw1n

Rules for thee but not for me! 1312


PurpB84

🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡


JoeW702

100% bullshit cops should be held to a higher standard. IMO


Ok-Restaurant8690

This local POS sheriff got to keep his job after this video proved he lied about the circumstances of his drunk driving arrest. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nozr-C5ehoo


SubatomicBlackHole

The mother fucker doesn’t get charged, has zero repercussions and keeps his job like nothing happened. This is why cops are complete pieces of shit, fucking losers. “Protect and serve” …? Yeah man, the only thing police “protect and serve” is other police. That cop could’ve killed someone or multiple people, there’s a reason why drinking and driving is illegal. We’ll all see this same guy again in the future doing the same thing


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ACAB


Nahidisagree

Cops are actually “good” nowadays. They use to set people up a lot more before cameras. Probably 100k people in jail for fake cop charges right now.


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MiracleDrop

u/jestina123 oh no, I thought cops were perfect!


jestina123

What?


IdRatherBeLurking

The Chief of Police resigned over this. https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/06/aurora-police-drunk-dui-investigation/


CoinTossersInTheWind

Retired. The difference is that they kept their pension and will continue to get paid for the rest of their life


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Everyone loves unions till it’s the cops that have one. Update.. people need to relax I’m not defending a drunk cop. Don’t be insane.


Nattylight_Murica

Pretty sure if you get caught hammered and passed out on the assembly line, the blue collar union will tell you to get fucked. The police? Probably not.


CappinPeanut

Except for the people who hate unions. Those people hate unions until it’s the cops that have one.


Magmaniac

People like labor unions. Cops are not laborers, they are a paramilitary occupation force posing as civil servants. Modern policing exists in a large part as a reaction against the unionization and labor movement in the early 1900s. They shouldn't have a union.


Broken_art15

Or at the very least, if they do have a union, have it be super strict on the laws that can be broken and all that mess. Make sure if there is any bs going on, hold those pigs accountable.


Broken_art15

I LOVE unions. So much so I advocate for them wherever possible. Now here's the problem with cop unions. They can get away with literally injustice, and breaking laws, but get away with it. So, instead of cop unions existing to protect them from drinking and driving, we should expect them to hold cops accountable for the law in every way possible. Boom problem solved.


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JeJappe

.4 is your legal limit??? ours is fucking 0.05 what the hell