Thank you so much for pulling my sober friend and I over and wrongfully accusing him for drinking and driving. I had no money on me and I had to walk all the way from downtown to Dartmouth in the freezing rain. Oh I should also put out a huge thanks to the asshole that hit me with his taxi car coming off of the Macdonald bridge and kept driving like it was nobody’s business. It was just what I needed you bastard! —Bruised & Wet
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.
Something you aren’t telling us OP? Was a field sobriety test administerred? Breathalyzer? Did your friend insist on either of these things?
Wrongfully? What was your friend doing? Driving recklessly? And who the fuck walks to Dartmouth….you’re just asking to get shot.
If your friend was sober and “wrongfully” accused of DUI, then I don’t understand why you had to walk to Dartmouth? If he/she was innocent like you say, then you and your friend should have been sent on your merry way without further incident. By you saying that you were forced to walk in the freezing rain because your friend got pulled over implies to me that your friend also had his/her car impounded, which would further imply that he/she was, in fact, driving drunk. The police would have had to administer a breathalyzer to determine this, (and impound their car), unless of course your friend refused it, (which is in itself, a criminal offence), then he/she could still be arrested and car impounded. Further, you can still be impaired on one drink and can be charged and convicted with less than .08 in your bloodstream, (the legal limit), if you show other symptoms of impairment. What aren’t you telling us, OB?
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My guess is as good as any of yours on this one. Unless it was a citizen’s arrest turned car jacking.
Further if you were sober and licenced, they would have asked your friend if you could take the vehicle home.
So you and your friend are driving along, get pulled over presumably by the police, your friend gets his car impounded, you have to walk to Dartmouth from downtown Halifax (again I presume) in the freezing rain only to have a taxi clip you when you got off the MacDonald Bridge on the Dartmouth side. It wasn’t your night OP!