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DUI - UPPER MICHIGAN STYLE
Only a person in Upper Michigan could think of this. From
the
county where drunk driving is considered a sport, comes this
true
story.
Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a bar in
Escanaba , Michigan after last call the officer noticed a man
leaving
the bar so apparently intoxicated that he could barely walk.
The man
stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the
officer
quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity in which he
tried his
keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his
car and
fall into it.
He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other
patrons
left
the bar and drove off. Finally he started the car, switched
the wipers
on and off--it was a fine, dry summer night--, flicked the
blinkers on
and off a couple of times, honked the horn and then switched
on the
lights.
He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a
little
and
then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the
other
patrons' vehicles left.
At last, when his was the only car left in the parking
lot, he
pulled out and drove slowly down the road.
The police officer, having waited patiently all this time,
now
started up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights,
promptly pulled
the man over and administered a breathalyzer test.
To his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no evidence
that
the man had consumed any alcohol at all! Dumbfounded, the
officer
said,
"I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station.
This
breathalyzer equipment must be broken." "I doubt it," said the
truly
proud Yooper.
"Tonight I'm the designated
decoy."
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