Afternoon,
I went out for long drive last night with a friend and at about 11pm decided to get something to eat from town.
I knew that we might run into trouble as it's Friday night and all the idiots are out struggling to handle their beer. So I made sure we locked the doors and set off through the town centre.
Further down the road I see three to four people in the middle of the road looking drunk. There was one girl in the middle of the road on her knees crying her eyes out - obviously very drunk. Another girl was trying to get her off the road whilst I presume her bofriend next to her is feeling sorry for himself not trying to get her off the road at all, saying that he wished he'd stiffed something or other with his arms flailing about.
There are other people by the road-side standing outside the pub just observing and there's me in my car stationary by the drunkards in the road.
After about a minute it becomes apparent that she wants to die hence her being in the road. I'm in two-minds about what course of action to take. I certainly didn't want to get out of the car because there were many of them and just me and my mate.
As you know, drunk people can be very hard to deal with and you don't know what else they've had, what they're carrying and what they'll do.
So my choices are limited. I'm thinking of going round them...that is till the car behind me takes this option before me.
He nails it around my car, and drives on the opposite side of the road past the drunks but the boyfriend jumps out in front of the car almost being hit by it so I decide to reverse further up the road and do a U-turn.
The girl starts to get up and heads off in the same direction as me towards another car further up the road which has sensibly stood way back to observe the situation. She's still trying to get run over.
I pull over into a bus stop at the top of the road and get my mate to call the Police...
They didn't want to know.
We told them off the situation and the male at the other end of the phone only asked us where this was to which we said Sarum Hill (which could be anywhere!) and asked my friend for his name and then that was the end of the call.
Do the Police find out where the mobile phone is position and divert the call to a local switchboard or something? Because he didn't even ask us where Sarum Hill was, it could be absolutely anywhere, just like London road...how many places have you heard with this name. Exactly.
I just want to know what any of you guys would have done had you been in my situation. Would you have done what the other car did and overtook?
I think that if I'd known further up the road exactly what was happening I would have done what the third car did and just stood well back and observed but I though that they where just crossing the road very drunk.
What would have happened if that car did hit one of the drunkards? Would the Police only be interested then?
I went out for long drive last night with a friend and at about 11pm decided to get something to eat from town.
I knew that we might run into trouble as it's Friday night and all the idiots are out struggling to handle their beer. So I made sure we locked the doors and set off through the town centre.
Further down the road I see three to four people in the middle of the road looking drunk. There was one girl in the middle of the road on her knees crying her eyes out - obviously very drunk. Another girl was trying to get her off the road whilst I presume her bofriend next to her is feeling sorry for himself not trying to get her off the road at all, saying that he wished he'd stiffed something or other with his arms flailing about.
There are other people by the road-side standing outside the pub just observing and there's me in my car stationary by the drunkards in the road.
After about a minute it becomes apparent that she wants to die hence her being in the road. I'm in two-minds about what course of action to take. I certainly didn't want to get out of the car because there were many of them and just me and my mate.
As you know, drunk people can be very hard to deal with and you don't know what else they've had, what they're carrying and what they'll do.
So my choices are limited. I'm thinking of going round them...that is till the car behind me takes this option before me.
He nails it around my car, and drives on the opposite side of the road past the drunks but the boyfriend jumps out in front of the car almost being hit by it so I decide to reverse further up the road and do a U-turn.
The girl starts to get up and heads off in the same direction as me towards another car further up the road which has sensibly stood way back to observe the situation. She's still trying to get run over.
I pull over into a bus stop at the top of the road and get my mate to call the Police...
They didn't want to know.
We told them off the situation and the male at the other end of the phone only asked us where this was to which we said Sarum Hill (which could be anywhere!) and asked my friend for his name and then that was the end of the call.
Do the Police find out where the mobile phone is position and divert the call to a local switchboard or something? Because he didn't even ask us where Sarum Hill was, it could be absolutely anywhere, just like London road...how many places have you heard with this name. Exactly.
I just want to know what any of you guys would have done had you been in my situation. Would you have done what the other car did and overtook?
I think that if I'd known further up the road exactly what was happening I would have done what the third car did and just stood well back and observed but I though that they where just crossing the road very drunk.
What would have happened if that car did hit one of the drunkards? Would the Police only be interested then?
