By Steven Symes 
Believe it or not, this story out of Canada of a drunk driver calling police to report a drunk driver isn’t the first time we’ve seen such a scenario. If you’ve ever been around someone who’s had a little too much to drink, and most people have, you already know they get stupider and yet far more confident, a dangerous combination.
A hit-and-run driver pretends to be asleep when police arrive on the scene.
That might have been why a 50-year-old man on Vancouver Island, British Columbia called police on New Year’s Eve. He was sure another driver was impaired all because that person was having a little difficulty navigating a dark road on the island at night.
The sober driver had pulled off to the side of the road when the drunk driver pulled up behind them, says CTV News. Not only did the drunk driver call for help, he allegedly tried to keep the other person from leaving the scene. After all, everyone knows driving drunk is dangerous and thus irresponsible.
Instead of the sober driver calling police, it was the drunk one who did, because remember alcohol loads you with all kinds of confidence you probably shouldn’t have.
However, when the Mounties showed up to sort things out, they immediately smelled booze on the breath of the driver who called for help. Doing roadside sobriety tests, that driver failed, earning a 90-day driving ban. Plus, the drunk driver’s car was impounded for 30 days.
What really gets us is the person who was driving drunk obviously knew doing such a thing was wrong. And they had strong enough convictions to call police when spotting someone they believed was engaging in such a practice. And yet they were the one driving drunk. The irony is almost too much and yet it’s so very human.
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