BS. Sidewise thinking.
See - here's the problem. From cops' point of view, EVERYONE is a low-life scum-bag that is buttumed to be in need of punishment for something, unless of course they happen to be another cop, in which case they can actually be a real scum-bag, but will be given a pbutt on that fact. The cop just sees an opportunity to make an arrest - at least nowadays - unlike in the past when cops used to enforce the law. Now, cops arrrive for the purpose of making an arrest, not really enforcing the law. All you need to do is to make yourself different somehow - if you don't absolutely blend in with all the other sheeple, you stand out, and some cop is going to find some screw-ball way to warp the intent of some law so he can, at least in his own mind, rationalize his way into making an arrest - it doesn't matter if the way you make yourself stand out is a good thing or not - you can rescue someone from watering, and some arrest-happy SOB of a cop is going to twist the situation around to make it somehow remotely plausible that you should be arrested.
Yeah, that's over the top - its not mostly that way, but, OTOH, the incidence of this sidewise thinking is way more prevalent that in used to be.
Women Busted for DUI For Pushing Car 1889OK, then we mostly agree. ? Yes, because it would be an injustice to punish the original pbuttenger with the nuclear weapon of DUI laws for doing the RIGHT thing by getting the...
Meanwhile, some actually-innocent person has to go thru the meat-grinder of a trial, or several court appearances until the county attorney gets around to deciding to drop charges, all because some cop has warped the common meanings of thing all out of shape to "justify" his bogus conclusion that he can make an arrest and maybe justify his existence in the job. Just f'in great.
As it turns out in this particular incident, the one woman was DUI until the engine actually quit. Then the both of 'em pushed it off the road and into a parking lot. It makes NO SENSE whatever for arresting the pbuttenger, and I don't really care if she was so drunk she was blind and peeing herself - she wasn't "driving" - not simply wheeling the deadstick car into a parking lot to get it out of the road (a good thing as it clears the road of a hazard.)
Dave Head
