Nope, really true. Last DWI pull over was last year... high profile vehicle, higher wind, I tend to hug the shoulder when I drive... bad combo.
Once I was pulled over in town because I couldn't find a certain building. They saw me "weaving" on the road (I was trying to shine my headlights on the street signs to figure out where I was) and pulled me over. Made me get out of the car, shined their flashlights in my face (how rude), and so forth. I couldn't figure out what they were doing. Explained that my friends and I were lost, and could they direct us to XYZ UPC? One doubled over laughing and had to leave. The other finally regained enough composure to give me directions and let me go. My friends later explained why they made me get out of the car and were shining their lights in my face.
Once I was laughing about how often I'd been pulled over for DUI when, guess what? Yep, lights came on behind us!
It was when I was pulled over twice in one hour that I was told to leave the state and never come back. I told them gladly!
Good heavens!! Should you hire a professional driver?
"XYZ UPC Church". What a weird name for a church. Oh well, takes all kinds, I suppose!
The last time I got pulled over was back in early 2002 or 2003. Coming home from work a little after midnight I made the mistake of crossing lanes while turning ... instead of staying in the turning lane. I needed to be in the right lane, so with no one around, I just switched lanes towards the end of the turn.
Cop pulled me over, came up and said he smelled alcohol on me and in the vehicle. Only problem is I don't drink. But he was insistent that I had been drinking, asked me to exit my car and proceeded to give me a sobriety test.
I had to balance on one leg, touch my nose with my finger whilst balancing on one leg. He even made me start reciting the alphabet backwards from "J" or "I."
Finally he said I could either take a breathalyzer test in the car, or be cuffed and taken to the station and forced to give one there. I took the test in the car ... cuffed ... in the back seat.
Of course I passed. No apology given. No ticket. Nothing. Just a "have a good night."
I knew someone with connections to the chief, and ended up writing a statement about it at his request since they'd been getting complaints from people who had been pulled and given the same deal like me.
Didn't hear anything about it after I wrote a statement.
Oh snap....I happen to live in the Midwest as well, Mary.
Just stay off the roads and you'll be safe... until I get that pilot's license and start flying people around so they don't have to go through the full body scans at the airport, anyway.
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