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Only a Texan would think of this: From the South where drunk driving is considered a sport, comes this true story. Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a bar in Charleston S.C. 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 proud Southern man. "Tonight I'm the designated decoy."  Honesty is the best policy. |
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It's funny  although, I'm puzzled, the posting said, this happened outside of Charleston S.C. ? How did that involve Texas?HE JUST COMES FROM TEXAS… IDENTIFIES HIM AS AN OLD BOY TYPE… Honesty is the best policy.
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At last, my physicist friend replied. Here is what he said.... THEY ARE ALL ‘OLD BOYS’ A TERM FOR MEN WHO HANG TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT CARS AND WOMEN… THE DECOY ACTED DRUNK TO ATTRACT THE COP… SO THE REST OF HIS GROUP OF OLD BOY COULD STAGGER OR DRUNKEN DRIVE HOME WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT… UNLESS THEY HAD AN ACCIDENT OR WORSE… NORMALLY, THE DESIGNATED DRIVER IS SOMEONE IN THE GROUP THAT DOESN’T GET DRUNK AND ACTS AS THE DRIVER FOR HIS BUDDIES, WHO PROBABLY ARE TOO DRUNK TO DRIVE. I DON’T DRINK AT ALL… AND HAVE NEVER WANTED TO… BUT MANY MEN SEEM TO LIKE IT… AND IT MAKES WOMEN EASIER TO CATCH, I AM TOLD. ALSO KILLS MANY EVERY YEAR, NEEDLESSLY. He didn't answer my question why that "decoy Texan" went to Charleston, South Carolina state. Honesty is the best policy.
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Hi beyond fantasy 3: We all know drinking and driving don't mix together. If you ever read my profile, you would know I don't drink alcohol or do drugs (I'm a pharmacist) or smoke. I don't have those bad habits at all. I am a mother so "Mother against drunk driving". I certainly understand the decoy guy who covered for his drinking and driving is absolutely wrong. Let's just chill out for this decoy guy story. I do know that how serious problems for drinking and driving. I just shared this story that sent from my physicist friend, so that we can have a laugh as it is not a true story. As your first comment said "it's funny". That is all to it. The decoy guy is a good actor. I don't advocate the drinking and driving, so let's just chill out. Honesty is the best policy.
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What's funny is ... The world of many people in many nations have "a drinking problem"... between drugs, drinking and people killing each other, its all "crazy".... The poor economics seem to produce more "drinkers", and more "drug users". People trying to drown out their despair and challenges, when they see not other means to deal with it. That's the kind of stuff that's crazy, which is why I say, people should learn more about "Civics", to help them learn more about "how to be a citizen" and what of responsibility is involved in being a citizen. Life continues to show people 'that continually getting drunk" will lead to "being a Drunk!!! We even see "older entertainers" who built their lives around the "entertainment stage or movie set" who think they are going to stay as the "top star" forever, and some think they are going to look like they did in their 20's and 30's all their life, and they can't face the fact of life and age, and when there is no more "limelight" they turn to trying to hide within a bottle of liquor, or filled up with drugs. Far too many are unstable individual or become unstable... and even with all the wealth they acquired, they did not learn how to live, beyond the hoopla of the fame. Some should learn, that fame is temporary fiction, and those famous today, will be upstaged by someone younger, every generation who will replace them as the top star... Maybe these media industries need to educate these people on that simple fact, that they will not be the "glowing face of beauty for very long", and should manage their lives to be based on.. reality away from the cameras and lights. It must be a horrible life, 'always desperate for the next 'starring role", or the next "hit record", or the "next hit Tv show. that's like selling out ones soul, for fame and money, which in turn becomes money they can't even enjoy, because of their desperation to try to make more. Even the sex movie worker find out, after all that sex and whatever.. the sex did not make them happy and the money did not make them invincible. Many of those have horrible lives when they are no longer sought after to do such movies. Retired NBA player Chris Bosh, said it best, and many others should learn from his words (((( “It’s pretty much like cruising along, going 150 miles an hour in your Porsche — and then you fall into a hole,” Bosh says. “You go from being with the guys all the time, in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then all of a sudden you are on your own,” he says. “You lose a sense of purpose, you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, ‘I was the best at this and now I’m not the best.’ You have to deal with not being very good. You have to deal with people no longer catering to you. “You start feeling forgotten. You don’t get as many phone calls. You don’t stay at the forefront of people’s minds. It’s natural, it’s life, you have to understand what’s happening, but I definitely see why the divorce rate is so high, and why players go broke. “Guys spend all their money trying to capture that feeling again. You can’t eat at Prime 112 (Restaurant) every night anymore. There’s this never-ending search for that feeling that you once had, and it can cost you.” )))) Another commenter on an article said: It's like some people when they graduate high school, and no longer have that daily network of people, they an loose concept of self, they no longer have the group atmosphere, or "a place they feel they fit in", and many go through much trying to fill that void. a casual drink may be fine, but when drinking become a routing habit... it will eventually overtake the person. the guys scheme in the joke, of trying to protect the other drinkers from the police, will not stop some of those same ones from driving drunk and harming someone or themselves.
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What's funny is ... The world of many people in many nations have "a drinking problem"... between drugs, drinking and people killing each other, its all "crazy".... The poor economics seem to produce more "drinkers", and more "drug users". People trying to drown out their despair and challenges, when they see not other means to deal with it. That's the kind of stuff that's crazy, which is why I say, people should learn more about "Civics", to help them learn more about "how to be a citizen" and what of responsibility is involved in being a citizen. Life continues to show people 'that continually getting drunk" will lead to "being a Drunk!!! We even see "older entertainers" who built their lives around the "entertainment stage or movie set" who think they are going to stay as the "top star" forever, and some think they are going to look like they did in their 20's and 30's all their life, and they can't face the fact of life and age, and when there is no more "limelight" they turn to trying to hide within a bottle of liquor, or filled up with drugs. Far too many are unstable individual or become unstable... and even with all the wealth they acquired, they did not learn how to live, beyond the hoopla of the fame. Some should learn, that fame is temporary fiction, and those famous today, will be upstaged by someone younger, every generation who will replace them as the top star... Maybe these media industries need to educate these people on that simple fact, that they will not be the "glowing face of beauty for very long", and should manage their lives to be based on.. reality away from the cameras and lights. It must be a horrible life, 'always desperate for the next 'starring role", or the next "hit record", or the "next hit Tv show. that's like selling out ones soul, for fame and money, which in turn becomes money they can't even enjoy, because of their desperation to try to make more. Even the sex movie worker find out, after all that sex and whatever.. the sex did not make them happy and the money did not make them invincible. Many of those have horrible lives when they are no longer sought after to do such movies. a casual drink may be fine, but when drinking become a routing habit... it will eventually overtake the person. the guys scheme in the joke, of trying to protect the other drinkers from the police, will not stop some of those same ones from driving drunk and harming someone or themselves.
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It's funny although, I'm puzzled, the posting said, this happened outside of Charleston S.C. ? How did that involve Texas?I just copied and pasted from an email that my PhD Physicist friend and he forwarded to me from his friend. I guess somewhere along the forwarding, the state changes. Maybe the Texans have notorious in drinking habits. For example: George W. Bush. Honesty is the best policy.
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It's funny although, I'm puzzled, the posting said, this happened outside of Charleston S.C. ? How did that involve Texas?
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Did you get it? That guy is the only one who is sober. The police officer paid attention on him so that other drunks can leave. Honesty is the best policy.
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