DUI enforcement, at the gates
While driving home from the office this weekend I saw a trooper with his blue lights on in the parking lot of Remedies, a bar in Myrtle Beach, giving a guy field sobriety tests directly in front of the entrance to the bar. Now, either the guy was pulled over and just happened to stop in the parking lot of a bar, or he didn't get a chance to get out of the parking lot before the trooper put the blue lights on. I really should have driven back by to see who the trooper was, but didn't.
That's taking DUI prevention and enforcement to new levels - everyone in the bar sees blue lights through the windows and watches as the cops humiliate a guy with roadside exercises then put the cuffs on him. How many people, drunk or not, do you suppose called a cab after that dog and pony show?
Comments
Was he going in or coming out of the bar?
Posted by: Johnny Gardner | November 29, 2009 11:46 PM
somebody has to save us from the drunks!!!
Posted by: be | December 1, 2009 1:26 PM
To me, that seems vastly preferable to the local practice of following people from the watering hole and busting them where the other drinkers can't see it.
Posted by: Mark Bennett | December 4, 2009 9:44 PM
That's what they usually do here as well. Often they will wait nearby and follow someone after they pull out of the lot, wait for them to not use a turn signal or swerve.
Not sure which is preferable really, but it was a surreal scene.
Posted by: BFrederick | December 4, 2009 9:57 PM