Really? (Drunk Drivers)
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Really? (Drunk Drivers)
I came in to work today (BC Ferries) and the morning crew told me a scary (though not shocking story).
Today's 08:00 sailing loaded and departed and a passenger reported a drunk driver aboard. The passenger also reported the drunk driver to police, and the crew coorrdinated with the RCMP to ensure they (the police) were there on the ship's arrival.
Our normal practice is to unload until we get to the vehicle the police want to stop, then stop discharge so there is no one behind the car they want. The driver in question was so drunk (remember, the ship left at 8 am) that the crew couldn't wake him up to drive off. The RCMP had to come aboard, and one of the officers had to drive the vehicle off. Keep in mind this guy would have been on the road before 8 AM to get to the ferry, then had he gone unnoticed, again at 9:30 AM.
Today's 08:00 sailing loaded and departed and a passenger reported a drunk driver aboard. The passenger also reported the drunk driver to police, and the crew coorrdinated with the RCMP to ensure they (the police) were there on the ship's arrival.
Our normal practice is to unload until we get to the vehicle the police want to stop, then stop discharge so there is no one behind the car they want. The driver in question was so drunk (remember, the ship left at 8 am) that the crew couldn't wake him up to drive off. The RCMP had to come aboard, and one of the officers had to drive the vehicle off. Keep in mind this guy would have been on the road before 8 AM to get to the ferry, then had he gone unnoticed, again at 9:30 AM.
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"If...I...can...just...*hic*...make...it...to...*hic*...the...ferry..."
Then he could sleep it off. At least until some nosy ferry employees got involved.
Then he could sleep it off. At least until some nosy ferry employees got involved.
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I once saw a drunk driver pass out and plow into a light pole. The crash did not even wake him up, nor could anyone responding.
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"Honest Occifer, I'm not half as think as you drunk I am. I'm perfectly helpable of caping myself. I've only had ti martwonies . . . OK, take me drunk, I'm home."
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Yeah, I think I've met this guy a few times during my lifetime.
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" No, Occifer, I'm serfectly pober, I only have ti martwonies, If youse dink I'm trunk, youse awsta see my firlgrend. Sheese wearying her nylonzzz on her arms and everys time I kiss herz sheese goes Phhhhhhhhhht."
Yeah, I think I've met this guy a few times during my lifetime.
Yeah, I think I've met this guy a few times during my lifetime.
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"Honest Occifer, I'm not half as think as you drunk I am. I'm perfectly helpable of caping myself. I've only had ti martwonies . . . OK, take me drunk, I'm home."
" No, Occifer, I'm serfectly pober, I only have ti martwonies, If youse dink I'm trunk, youse awsta see my firlgrend. Sheese wearying her nylonzzz on her arms and everys time I kiss herz sheese goes Phhhhhhhhhht."
Yeah, I think I've met this guy a few times during my lifetime.
Yeah, I think I've met this guy a few times during my lifetime.
Those are even better than one I heard on M*A*S*H
'I'm not think as you drunk I am'.
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I also congratulate you.
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Of course I'm driving!! I'm too drunk to walk
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I came in to work today (BC Ferries) and the morning crew told me a scary (though not shocking story).
Today's 08:00 sailing loaded and departed and a passenger reported a drunk driver aboard. The passenger also reported the drunk driver to police, and the crew coorrdinated with the RCMP to ensure they (the police) were there on the ship's arrival.
Our normal practice is to unload until we get to the vehicle the police want to stop, then stop discharge so there is no one behind the car they want. The driver in question was so drunk (remember, the ship left at 8 am) that the crew couldn't wake him up to drive off. The RCMP had to come aboard, and one of the officers had to drive the vehicle off. Keep in mind this guy would have been on the road before 8 AM to get to the ferry, then had he gone unnoticed, again at 9:30 AM.
Today's 08:00 sailing loaded and departed and a passenger reported a drunk driver aboard. The passenger also reported the drunk driver to police, and the crew coorrdinated with the RCMP to ensure they (the police) were there on the ship's arrival.
Our normal practice is to unload until we get to the vehicle the police want to stop, then stop discharge so there is no one behind the car they want. The driver in question was so drunk (remember, the ship left at 8 am) that the crew couldn't wake him up to drive off. The RCMP had to come aboard, and one of the officers had to drive the vehicle off. Keep in mind this guy would have been on the road before 8 AM to get to the ferry, then had he gone unnoticed, again at 9:30 AM.
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I wonder how many of us here on BF led unhealthy lifestyles until we finally found the two-wheeled outlet with which to release our inner demons. Lord knows I made my share of poor decisions---thousands of them---before I found a better way of living.
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For me it was financial. I drank a tanker truck worth of beer during college because it was generally free or dirt cheap. After college when I had to start paying for the stuff I gave it up (I never liked the taste of alcohol much to begin with). Apparently I was lucky with genetics and had no problem just moving on.
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My bad lifestyle consisted of a corporate job and a corpulent belly - helped along by beer of course; both.
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If you want to work here you have to learn to seperate yourself and your job from the politics. All I can do is get the boat back and forth safely, be nice to the passengers, keep the crew motivated, and try to keep the whole thing on time. Everything else is well above my pay-grade. In public I generally don't tell people where I work because everyone has a ferry horror story, and they have no interest in hearing a reasonable explanation of what happened.
And if you take my ferry (or any ferry), please be nice to the crew; none of the stuff that pisses you off is their fault.
And if you take my ferry (or any ferry), please be nice to the crew; none of the stuff that pisses you off is their fault.
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For me it was financial. I drank a tanker truck worth of beer during college because it was generally free or dirt cheap. After college when I had to start paying for the stuff I gave it up (I never liked the taste of alcohol much to begin with). Apparently I was lucky with genetics and had no problem just moving on.
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As to drunk bicycle driver stories, I have one of those (not me) where I witnessed an individual going through a parking lot late at night when I got off work and he ran straight into a light pole head on at speed. I ran over to him to see if he was okay or not and when I got within about eight feet or so of him I could smell the alcohol and when I asked him what happened he said he saw two light poles and tried to go in-between the two of them (there was only one) !!! I was really surprised someone could be that drunk and successfully balance a two wheeled bike.
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i'm not sure if this is the place, and i hope i don't offend anybody, but i was that dude until Dec 9 '12. i had just started a new job, went out with the crew after work one night, dropped my friends and a new co-worker off, and headed home.
it had sprinkled a little while i was dropping people off. by the time i dropped the last person off i was well into the drunk. no drink and drive, but it started to settle in, if you know what i mean. i got downtown by the hospital, rounded the circle and lost the back end of the car and hit two parked cars. right in front of the hospital.
i freaked out. i've never been in an accident that was my fault. i'd never even been close to an accident when i'd driven buzzed or drunk(too many of those days in my youth to count). i drove on. i got home with a demolished front end. thankfully, the rodeo i was driving was a tough POS and bore the brunt of the collision right on the bumper, but lost most of the plastic grill and and the headlights. somehow, one light was still in the housing and worked.
i haven't driven since, and i never will again. i just can't do it. my drinking has dropped to a minimum(three beers gets me nice and buzzed/drunk) and i like it that way.
i'm completely wary of any and all drivers, now. you never know who's alert, distracted, angry, much less drunk. i can't tell you how lucky i was that nobody was in either of those cars. don't know if i'd be here to ride a bike today if i'd hurt anybody. i really don't know.
it had sprinkled a little while i was dropping people off. by the time i dropped the last person off i was well into the drunk. no drink and drive, but it started to settle in, if you know what i mean. i got downtown by the hospital, rounded the circle and lost the back end of the car and hit two parked cars. right in front of the hospital.
i freaked out. i've never been in an accident that was my fault. i'd never even been close to an accident when i'd driven buzzed or drunk(too many of those days in my youth to count). i drove on. i got home with a demolished front end. thankfully, the rodeo i was driving was a tough POS and bore the brunt of the collision right on the bumper, but lost most of the plastic grill and and the headlights. somehow, one light was still in the housing and worked.
i haven't driven since, and i never will again. i just can't do it. my drinking has dropped to a minimum(three beers gets me nice and buzzed/drunk) and i like it that way.
i'm completely wary of any and all drivers, now. you never know who's alert, distracted, angry, much less drunk. i can't tell you how lucky i was that nobody was in either of those cars. don't know if i'd be here to ride a bike today if i'd hurt anybody. i really don't know.