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  • #46
    If I suspect a drunk driver, I call it in quickly. I'll tail the car if it's going my direction to a point so I can guide LEO's if needed. I don't want to live with knowing I didn't call one in and someone was injured. Once I saw a car going the wrong way on 380 a little after midnight. They narrowly missed 2 cars, and still didn't change lanes. I couldn't get the phone out fast enough for that one. Scary stuff.

    Also, different topic, but if I see you driving like a jackass at a high rate of speed, I'm calling it in too. Too many times I'm in heavy traffic that is still moving close to the speed limit, and some jackass wants to drive 95 or more. They change lanes, pass in the emergency lane, ride 2 feet behind someone, etc. In those situations, you better believe I'm calling you in. There's no need to risk a 20 car pile up and serious injuries because someone believes they should drive 95 in a 60 and force cars off the road.

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    • #47
      I call it in- I have three kids driving and my oldest daughter pregnant with my first grandchild. I always think about them being out there and don't want some jackass ruining their life because he didn't exercise caution and options (don't drink, drink at home, call a friend, taxi or UBER it)

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      • #48
        Originally posted by samuel642000 View Post
        They have for me before, I was coming home on 75 one night and this fucker comes out of nowhere and almost slams into the back of my truck. I was running 75-80 so he was moving.
        Called it in and actually followed him, led the cops to where he went and they took care of it.
        I had to do the same thing on the tollway in frisco.

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        • #49
          I was delivering some boat trailers from Lewisville TX to Albuquerque NM when I was about 21 and some drunk kept passing me going 100 + and would then run off of the road and come to a stop for a while. He would catch up to me a few miles down the road and kept repeating the same stunt. We were in the middle of nowhere west TX or maybe in NM so my co driver and I were not really concerned. After about half an hour of this we got to see the driver and his passengers die when the car rolled and discharged everyone out of it. After seeing that I really wished that I had tried to do something about what was going on.
          Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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          • #50
            I called in a drunk driver that hit a van and ran. I got berated by the 911 operator while I followed the guy with his front bumper hanging off his truck from the damage telling me to go back and check for injuries.

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            • #51
              Every time I've seen someone swerving more than the normal chicken pecking on a phone I've called it in, however have only witnessed one successful bust. Two of them the were stopped, but the cops let them go.

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              • #52
                I lost a good friend recently in glen rose to a drunk driver. I will have no problem calling from now on. It may be your friend it saves. Who knows... but I no longer have any tolerence for drunk drivers.
                Shooting for 1000 posts in 15, well make that 20 years.

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