Cop enjoys watching pilot beg out of DUI

[WrightAvia]

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/2852.asp

The police department’s internal investigation said Taylor was caught taking police video tapes home after his wife's boss complained to police.

The report stated:

“He recalled her coming to work and bragging about Officer Taylor showing her a video of one of his arrests concerning an airline pilot.”

She told everyone the pilot had "begged to be released," and that the officer should "just go ahead and shoot him because his career was over."

 

[SteveR]

So the pilot and the cop are both dopes....

 

[Dash8]

see this is the problem with law enforcement nowadays,
it seems like not many of them are getting into it to make the world a better place or to proverbially 'protect and serve'
rather for the power they'd wield....
but yeah that pilot shoulda known better too....
always always take the back roads home!

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

that's what I fear the most, getting pulled over by some righteous, Billy Bob, good ole' boy type, with an axe to grind

I'll be first to admit to operating while severely incapacitated, but not after I got my private ticket. I saved a lot on bar tabs and still have my certs

I should post a poll asking what the percentage of drunk driving pilots is like

 

[beechballcpt]

fourtunatly, not all are like that

a few years back, I had a student who was a sherriff, and he told me about a guy he pulled over, a NWA guy,for speeding...the guy honestly just screwed up, and had a few glasses of wine with dinner, and was just over the limit.

my student used his judgement, and let the guy go, probably since he knew what it could do to the guys career,and while he was over the legal limit, he obviously wasnt impared in his ability to drive, and my student one day hoped he would have that as a career too

Im proud to say my student now flys for a regional, and the NWA pilot wrote him a glowing recomendation.

so. proof that NOT ALL cops are out to get us.

 

[WrightAvia]

There is one problem with cops "letting a guy go" and this is why you don't see it happen any more...believe me, I got lucky while being pulled for speeding several times as a young serviceman in the late 70's. I even had a cop notice beer on my breath while I was sitting in his squad, he made a comment about that as he wrote the speeding ticket. He reduced my ticket to 19 MPH over so he wouldn't have to write me for the second ticket of reckless driving (which was mandatory by law at 20 MPH or more over the limit). He then told me that he knew I was probably bustable for drinking and driving, but he noticed how well I was driving and left it at that. I was driving a motorcycle at the time.

The problem with cops "letting a guy go" happened up here by Green Bay, WI. Cop let a buddy go, the buddy then drove his car off a bridge later and drowned. Somehow the widow got wind that her husband had been stopped by the county at such and such a time on such and such a road. All you have to do then, is get the coroners toxicology report and draw a time line to the time when the cop made the traffic stop and when the accident occurred. Widow becomes an instant millionaire and the cop looks for a prison guard or security guard job.

I would expect no breaks from cops in this day and age of MADD and would not be caught dead begging a cop to let me go.

If you get pulled over and the cop decides after a field sobriety test to take you downtown for the breathalyser... two words of advice, say nothing, sign nothing, do nothing (I don't mean refuse the breathalyser/only an attorney can advise you on that)...till you wake up in the morning and call your attorney. Even if it means spending the night in the can.

But do not beg or plead or make any statements about how much you had or when or how it's going to affect your career. Believe me, any statements you make are probably being taped and will be used to convict you, twisted in any way they see fit. You have the right to be silent. This is the time to do so.

 

[Ty Webb]

If you think you are close to to the limit, and you're going to blow, I would request blood instead ( in FL and some other states I believe you are still entitled to that). That way, you give yourself another hour to burn it off while they are coordinating it and waiiting at the hospital.

That would be my advice, too, if the Trying to Smell Alcohol workers ever raise that issue . . . . don't trust your career on one of those portable breathalyzer units- have 'em take you to a hospital or poilice station and do it right.

Of course, the best thing is to save it for late check-ins, and if you go out at home, have your wife drive (and on the way home, have her drive topless through all of the toll bridges, but that is a topic for another post).

 

[dispatchguy]

have your wife drive (and on the way home, have her drive topless through all of the toll bridges, but that is a topic for another post).

Oh do tell.....

 

[AA717driver]

Off topic...

A famous, or maybe infamous TWA FA, was telling his tales of working on the New Hampshire Tollway during the FA strike.

We were rolling in the floor. Topless drivers were kind of normal. It was the really weird stuff that got us going... TC