Drunk at 3:30 in the afternoon?

[slavetoabunny]

Yesterday, as I was driving out of Orlando on I-4 I came up behind a car that was swerving all over the road. Not just a little - this was major swerving. The car kept swerving onto the shoulder and almost clipped the guardrail a few times and would then swerve over into the middle lane.

I knew that someone was going to get hurt here, so out comes the cell phone and I dial *FHP (highway patrol). I reported where we were and the dispatcher had me stay behind the car (I was actually afraid to try and pass it) and on the line until the state patrol car got to our location a few minutes later and pulled the car over.

Granted, the person may have been in need of medical attention and not drunk, but either way they needed to get off the road.

 

[okiron]

Glad you're ok

Scary people out there.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

It is very frightening and you know - they probably were drunk. I've seen it before noon! and you wonder what they are thinking!

Good that you phoned and got help.

 

[seniorcats]

I'm relieved this person didn't wreck into you. This is frightening. Could be drunk, falling asleep, on the phone, diabetic coma. We had a guy here who died on I-71 because he was reading the newspaper at 70 MPH

 

[bunnydude]

I'm glad no one was hurt. You did the right thing by calling. Does anyone remember the news story a few months ago where a woman took a video of someone driving down the highway while sleeping? She called the police, followed the driver until the police arrived, and no one was hurt. It was a pretty scary video. The woman in the other car was out cold.

 

[AngelnSnuffy]

So glad you're okay! You did the right thing for sure, how scary. As far as the other postings, people are so stupid sometimes:?. I don't have a cell phone, but if I did? I wouldn't use it while driving. It needs to be banned. There is just too much to watch for while driving, I call it like playing Dodgeball, cuz you have to pay attention and "dodge" all the idiots.

I don't recall that Mat, but geez.

 

[PixieStixxxx]

Oh geez! I'm so glad you're alright. And good for you for doing the right thing - someone may have been seriously hurt.

 

[Leaf]

I have to echo everyone elses opinions on this one ^^



As for being drunk that early in the day (if that were the case) - people who work "off shifts" usually have a timeframe unique to their schedules.

I work between 8-10 hours a night (so anywhere from 8:30pm - 6:30am) and if I dont have to work at animal control in the day it's nothing for me to get home by 7:30am, warm up a pizza, pop in a movie and ...relax for a while.

Still though, there is never a reason to be irresponsible when deciding to indulge yourself at times. :grumpy:

 

[maherwoman]

I actually had an experience quite similar to that. It was on a part of the freeway that had a very small shoulder (think inches), and a big concrete barrier beyond the shoulder. Add to that the fact that it was sprinkling rain, and in the middle of the afternoon (I think it was about 2pm, or something like that).

Hubby and I called, and we followed them as long as we could (it was in a very confusing part of Santa Monica, where there are lots of one way streets, and if you get off after your exit, you might not figure out how to get where you needed to be), and right before we got off, they actually clipped that concrete barrier!

The weird part was...there was definitely someone in the car, but they kept disappearing from view for moments at a time (which we all know is a long time when driving), and then would come back up for a moment or two, and their head would disappear again. It was really odd...

At first, I thought maybe they dropped something...but it was at least ten or fifteen minutes this was happening. I don't know what on EARTH they were doing...they were the only person in the car, too. Very strange...

I hope they got pulled over and didn't hurt anyone... I wish we could've followed them for a longer period of time, but at the time we had very little time to do what we were in that particular part of town to do (some work), and get Em from school about an hour from there on time...so we just couldn't continue following them.

I wish people would wise up and stop drinking and/or taking drugs and then driving...

 

[tamnjo]

:brownbunnyMy parents never wear their seatbelts(even tho they always tell us to) and they say: "well, it doesn't matter, because I'm a good driver". And I'm thinking: Well, alot of other people arn't.

Glad your ok:group2: