For DUI......
While riding a bike.....
Not a motorcycle..... A BIKE
After a few pitchers at Hooters followed by a few hours at Peabodies (an excessively loud bar/pool hall in Tampa) for dollar drink night I decide to chill out and watch Pulp Fiction before I passed out. Being fairly drunk the “Royale” with cheese scene made me incredibly hungry. I’d drank way too much to even think about driving, so I jumped on my bike to head over to 7-11. I manage to make my way there, coming close to crashing into bushes only 3-4 times, and when I arrived there were 3 cop cars sitting in parking lot. I purchase the obligatory slurpee and microwavable quesadilla. I must have been noticeably tipsy, because as I get on my bike one of the cops stops me and says:
“Son, you know you can be arrested for DUI on a bike”
I this can happen and all I can say is “yes”
“Well, I have the mind to take you in”
I am about to go on mega tilt, because getting a DUI for riding your bike to a 7-11 would have to be in the top 10 stupid arrests of all time. I don’t want to be belligerent to him, so I just say.
“If you want to take me in for riding a bike here instead of driving go ahead. It’s your call”
This must have been the right thing to say because he just told me to go home and be careful. I guess not all cops are complete assholes.
I’ve been keeping very busy since we returned from Vegas. The end of the WSOP is almost like a poker New Years Eve for me. I reflect on the previous year, and make goals for the next. Looking back I am very happy with how last year went. My cash game skills improved massively and I took down some tournaments for nice paydays. The back to basics experiment showed that with hard work, good poker resources, and a passion for the game it’s possible to make a living at poker starting with just $2000.
By the next WSOP I want to accomplish even more than I did last year. I am going to focus most of my time on cash games and plan to be beating 25/50NL by the time I get another chance to win a bracelet. With the improvements that I’ve made recently I see no reason this won’t happen.
My bankroll is currently a little smaller than I would like, the Vegas trip and all the expenses for the Poker Dynasty site upgrades have put a dent in it. I’m not too worried about that. With back to basics I went from playing $50NL to $600NL is only 6 months, so getting to 25/50 should be a piece of cake :)
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RC
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I almost got three tickets on my bicycle at the same time one day up in the suburbs of Chicago. One for speeding (28mph in a 20 mph zone), improper lane usage (I was riding in between the two yellow lines that divdethe road, in the middle of rush hour traffic, which was bumper to bumper both ways. I considered it my personal lane), and running a stop light and a stop sign.
The cop was on a motor cycle, and it took him 4 blocks to catch me.
He then threatened he could suspend my driver license for the 3 moving violations, but said if I promised to obeyed all traffic laws in the future he would write me a warning ticket. I started to laugh until he reached for the hand cuffs and thought it prudent to agree with his request.
That was a ballsy move on your part to challenge him, but I think the logic of your response is a classic way to deal with cops. If you show them you have some intelligence and some reasoning in you they tend to over look a lot of things. Nice semi-bluff ;) VNH, sir!
Yeah, I didn't even think about it as a challenge. I just let him know that he had the power to do it if he really wanted to, but in a way that made it pretty silly if he actually did. I think this works much better with cops than trying to challenge their authority. They are most likely cops because they got pushed around/enjoy the power so any challenge of that will get your ass in jail.
mmmmmmm, hooters. wings are good too.
I had a similar experience, i worked for a summer in Harrah's in Lake Tahoe. I set off on my bicycle to purchase a pack of cigarettes and some zig-zags at the local 7-11 :)
Out of my mind drunk. The local cops were there for a donut stop, and I was falling around the place, trying to act normal. They confronted me, but once they discovered I was Irish they were real cool, telling me how their great-grandparents were Irish or somw shit. So I cycled home and got chinese eyed.
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