Never Fight With Police

Certain highway safety media reports lead me to name the driver as someone who should never be able to drive again. I usually find one or two of these drivers per year and 2010 has been one of those years that lead me to think that I might not find one. Well, it ain’t going to happen.

In an article on the web site of WRCB TV in Chattanooga I found my man, a 70-year-old doper who decided that it was a good idea to fight with police who had pulled him over for not wearing his seat belt. Not wearing his seat belt while driving along a public street was his first mistake, his second was having a bog of pot and seven rocks of crack in his shirt pocket and his third mistake was trying to fight with the officer.

The man is now recovering in a local hospital as the result of injuries he received when police officers subdued him. I mean, hide the dope you dope, don’t keep it in your shirt pocket. I doubt whether the police would have conducted a full car search on a 70-year-old man on seat belt beef, but then, as Forrest Gump said, “…stupid is as stupid does.”

The lesson for the rest of us is don’t use dope and drive, better yet don’t use dope at all. If you or a loved one is injured or killed in a Tennessee automobile accident caused by a driver under the influence of drugs contact the experienced Nashville automobile accident attorneys at Phillip Miller & Associates and take advantage of a free consultation with a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer to find out about your rights and remedies.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new candidate for the Dumbest Tennessee Driver of 2010. Washington County deputies attempted to make a traffic stop when the driver of the vehicle sped off and got away. During the brief chase the driver was observed tossing a package of dope out of the window of the vehicle.

As I mentioned, the vehicle was able to elude deputies but the draw of the dope was too much for the fleeing driver. He circled back to the scene of the crime and was spotted by police and arrested. The driver, whose name shall remain anonymous, has been charged with speeding, felony evading arrest, reckless endangerment, and possession of schedule IV and VI drugs. He was jailed in the Washington County Detention Center on $21,000 bond.

The passenger of the vehicle had walked home to avoid involvement with the situation but upon questioning the driver dropped a dime on his “friend”. Police went to his home and found, in plain view, a large marijuana plant. Upon searching his home they found packages of pot, scales and other items used to package the drug. I guess tha’s why they call it dope.

Dumb Is As Dumb Does

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