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Meh……..

Should call the cops for dumb ass drivers…..

Most drunks are good drivers, in my experience.

Now tipping over drunk…… yeah, give em a ride home

Andbody can make a mess sober or not.
Seen more [bleep] from people being under the influence of dumb
causing chaos and deaths as apposed to impaired people….. go figure. Ymmv.

Unless you call in texter’s, eaters, arguers, sleepyheads, and warm weather cuhnhts driving in their first snow then it’s all virtue signaling hypocrisy.

Nobody wants to address Hubert except slumlord.

Need a link?

Figures.
Asshat.

A drunk crossed the centerline and hit the car carrying two of my sisters. Messed them up pretty good.

In the past couple of years I have called 911 on a drunk driving north on I-75, he was all over the road, his speed varied from 50-80 mph, and ha would have sideswiped 2-3 vehicles if they hadn’t swerved to avoid him. I followed him till MSP caught up and pulled him over.
Earlier this year we narrowly avoided a drunk eastbound on westbound I-94.
Anybody that would ignore that kind of intoxicated driving because “They’re not a snitch” is an azzhole. Plain and simple.

Nah, tried it, asked about it. Local cops aren't interested unless it's at a roadblock. Otherwise they just want nice easy speeding tickets.

Jog my memory please.

Hubert falling asleep driving? On old folks drugs?

I seem to recall something, but no details.

Well I’m truly sorry…. And understand your stance

Will and have.

Don't they have open range where you live? With traffic signs having a picture of a cow, and open range on the sign. Hit one on open range here you buy the cow.
Drunks I have called twice, both times the drunks, caused accidents and drove on!

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I stand by my point that no one will address. Unless you call in every unsafe and distracted driver, then you’re a virtue signaling hypocrite

Never have and probably never will unless I see something that I have yet to see. If somebody is all over the road or whatever I might, but not because I see a car weave or somebody drinking a beer or something. Also 911 is for emergencies, not nanny calls.

Harsh, but true.

I disagree gruff. What good would calling in a texter do anyway? By the time a cop gets there, he/she won't be texting anymore. When I see someone looking at their phone and swerving, I blow the horn at 'em. Sometimes they even put the phone down.

A swerving drunk on the other hand is a swerving drunk all the way home. They can't put the phone down.

To Buckhaggard's point, I rarely make a call, and only when the person is doing something really stupid like weaving all over in heavy traffic.

That's because it's not an emergency.

Does it rise to "emergency" level when they leave the convenience store lot an enter the public roadway?

Most likely just ruined his. Good work.

I'm assuming some of you call the cops when people aren't wearing a mask when it's mandated by the local government too?

I have and will again if necessary.

The life I save might be yours.

Then you do call if people aren't wearing masks?

How many people do you know who've been killed by someone not wearing a mask? How many vehicles you got that were damaged by some a**hole because he wasn't wearing a mask?

Different levels of danger I'd say.

The trash hauler semi driver I called in on I 84 along the Columbia, having followed him for +/- 10 miles to give him the benefit of the doubt, with his right wheels going into the dirt shoulder multiple times, and his left wheel going a good three feet into the passing lane when he corrected, needed to be called in as it wasn't just a case of a momentary distraction. Something was up for sure. Falling asleep from a night of driving (0700 hrs)? Medical issue?

An 80,000 lb rig unable to stay in its lane for 10+ miles, in my mind, becomes more than just an "unsafe and distracted driver".

I haven't found it necessary, yet, to shoot one of the neighborhood dogs that runs out to the edge of their property in a threatening manner. Let them come all the way out with the obvious intention of harming me, my wife, or our dogs, and it elevates the situation to beyond the danger level. Just like certain drivers do.