- Jan 18, 2001
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I was about a mile from home, with my wife and son in our Explorer. I was waiting for a guy in front of me to turn left at a light. He missed a couple of chances and then sat through the protected turn arrow. When the light turned green again, I honked and he started to pull out without the protected turn. Almost caused a crash. NOT FUN to watch.
At this point, we all get the turn and about 5 cars make the left hand turn with the drunk in the lead. He puts on his right hand bllinker, and pulls over to the curb. I pass and start putting distance between me and him. He pulls back into traffic, and somehow manages to serve badly enough to jump the curb and lose a spinner or two. He then gets back in the flow, and I turn off to completely avoid this asshole.
At this point he turns into a residental area. I circle back to get his license plate. Another car is also following the DUI while on their cell (I didn't have mine with me). Both of us follow the DUI through the neighborhood and watch him as he errantly navigates a curve in the road and hits a car parked on the other side of the street. He continues on, but is driving very slowly, coming to complete stops for no apparent reason.
Finally, the cops come and block him off, he was only about 1 block from getting to an street with fast moving traffic.
obligatory cliffs notes version:
1) got annoyed by a person who later proved to be DUI
2) in a matter of minutes, the DUI jumped a curb, hit a parked car, almost caused a serious wreck.
3) followed the DUI until cops arrived
I was about a mile from home, with my wife and son in our Explorer. I was waiting for a guy in front of me to turn left at a light. He missed a couple of chances and then sat through the protected turn arrow. When the light turned green again, I honked and he started to pull out without the protected turn. Almost caused a crash. NOT FUN to watch.
At this point, we all get the turn and about 5 cars make the left hand turn with the drunk in the lead. He puts on his right hand bllinker, and pulls over to the curb. I pass and start putting distance between me and him. He pulls back into traffic, and somehow manages to serve badly enough to jump the curb and lose a spinner or two. He then gets back in the flow, and I turn off to completely avoid this asshole.
At this point he turns into a residental area. I circle back to get his license plate. Another car is also following the DUI while on their cell (I didn't have mine with me). Both of us follow the DUI through the neighborhood and watch him as he errantly navigates a curve in the road and hits a car parked on the other side of the street. He continues on, but is driving very slowly, coming to complete stops for no apparent reason.
Finally, the cops come and block him off, he was only about 1 block from getting to an street with fast moving traffic.
obligatory cliffs notes version:
1) got annoyed by a person who later proved to be DUI
2) in a matter of minutes, the DUI jumped a curb, hit a parked car, almost caused a serious wreck.
3) followed the DUI until cops arrived
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