California man charged with DUI only tested positive for caffeine

[sovietchild]

FAIRFIELD, Calif., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Joseph Schwab, a 36-year-old California man charged with a DUI, wants the case against him to be dropped because the blood test following his arrest came back positive only for caffeine.

California man charged with DUI only tested positive for caffeine

 

[jeager106]

Probably it will be dropped but there will still be pain.
Lawyer fees, court costs, his ins. will rise anyway and more.
I'm facing court soon for the same danged thing.
I'm diabetic and evidently crossed the center line a bit just last week.
A local cop.................this bears a bit of history.
Very small village in N.E. Ohio where NOTHING ever happens so
cops are BORED silly.
So the cop stops me and I speak with respect and dignity.
He finds an UNopened bottle of wine. I don't even drink, it belonged
to someone else who left it in my car and I didn't even know it.
He gives me a field sobriety test in which I do fine except I have
a crippled leg and couldn't walk a straight line, not ever, and I tell him
so. He says he detects an odor of alcohol, I say "sure, it's Nyquil, I have
the flue".
He finds my LOADED revolver. I explain I'm a retired police officer
and I'm o.k. to carry under Ohio Law.
HE DOESN'T even know about H.B. 218!!!!!!
He arrests me for d.u.i., c.c.w. tows my car and tosses my arse in
jail.
DAMN!
I have to post $3400.00 CASH to get out the next day.
I hire a lawyer for another 3 grand up front and now demand a jury
trial.
Lawyer wants me to plea to reduced charge, have a record, LOOSE
a $1200 dollar revolver all over a part time township cop that was
bored.
I'll be damned if I'll ever legally carry a gun again.
If I see a copper in trouble I'll ignore it and keep on truckin'.
This will cost me about 5 grand and my revolver given to me as
a retirement gift when I left police work permanently disabled.
Think I'll sell some dope now to recoup my losses.
I HATE COPS.
When I was in jail with some unsavory characters I thought I'd
be in deep doo doo being a retired cop.
Nope. I was "one of da boys" and accepted as yet another victim
of whitie wearin' a badge.
I GET THAT!
I have to see the judge next week and am practicing KEEPING MY MOUTH SHUT.
I'll never get my gun back either. Good thing I have about 50 others
to play with.

 

[Revoltingest]

Probably it will be dropped but there will still be pain.
Lawyer fees, court costs, his ins. will rise anyway and more.
I'm facing court soon for the same danged thing.
I'm diabetic and evidently crossed the center line a bit just last week.
A local cop.................this bears a bit of history.
Very small village in N.E. Ohio where NOTHING ever happens so
cops are BORED silly.
So the cop stops me and I speak with respect and dignity.
He finds an UNopened bottle of wine. I don't even drink, it belonged
to someone else who left it in my car and I didn't even know it.
He gives me a field sobriety test in which I do fine except I have
a crippled leg and couldn't walk a straight line, not ever, and I tell him
so. He says he detects an odor of alcohol, I say "sure, it's Nyquil, I have
the flue".
He finds my LOADED revolver. I explain I'm a retired police officer
and I'm o.k. to carry under Ohio Law.
HE DOESN'T even know about H.B. 218!!!!!!
He arrests me for d.u.i., c.c.w. tows my car and tosses my arse in
jail.
DAMN!
I have to post $3400.00 CASH to get out the next day.
I hire a lawyer for another 3 grand up front and now demand a jury
trial.
Lawyer wants me to plea to reduced charge, have a record, LOOSE
a $1200 dollar revolver all over a part time township cop that was
bored.
I'll be damned if I'll ever legally carry a gun again.
If I see a copper in trouble I'll ignore it and keep on truckin'.
This will cost me about 5 grand and my revolver given to me as
a retirement gift when I left police work permanently disabled.
Think I'll sell some dope now to recoup my losses.
I HATE COPS.
When I was in jail with some unsavory characters I thought I'd
be in deep doo doo being a retired cop.
Nope. I was "one of da boys" and accepted as yet another victim
of whitie wearin' a badge.
I GET THAT!
I have to see the judge next week and am practicing KEEPING MY MOUTH SHUT.
I'll never get my gun back either. Good thing I have about 50 others
to play with.

Do not give in.....fight Mister Charlie!
The Man!
The Power!
The Establishment!
The Justice Industrial Complex!
The pigs!
That's what money & time are for....doing what you think is right.
You'd regret just bending over & taking it in....you know.

 

[jeager106]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww shut up!

My lawyer will want me to take a plea to something like reckless
operation which carries a nasty fine and heavy points on the license.
Then ins. rate skyrocket for 2 years.
Still it beats an expensive trail.
Now I know how all those guys I arrested over the years felt.
They took it up the poop shoot to get it done with.
Thing is we were too darned busy to hunt for d.u.i. guys.
We usually only did the d.u.i. thing after the drunk already wrecked.
I don't know how many times I took a drunk out of his car, called
him a cab, had him get his car keys the next day.
"This too shall pass."
Stinkin' pigs!

 

[jeager106]

I do recall one fellow we brought in for d.u.i.
He tested ZERO. The man couldn't even sit in a chair w/o falling
out.
I ordered him taken to the e.r. where it was found he had a severe
concussion.
It happens.
Then there was a guy that could walk a line, pick up coins from the floor
but tested a whopping .41 % b.a.c. He should have been in an alcoholic
coma.
Accomplished drinker.

 

[jeager106]

My dad was alcoholic. He managed to stay dry for about 15 years
while sis and I were growing up but he was still a mean a$$.
Distant and unemotional.
When he drank he drank BADLY. I once watched him turn up and down
a fresh fifth of whiskey. He eventually drank again openly and tortured
all of us.
He died of alcoholism at age 63. He passed out and froze to death.
We were relieved.
Our suffering was over.
Then mother could no longer hide her addiction
behind dad's behavior and it killed her also.
She was a "closet" drinker. She hid it and had booze everywhere
and shunned company from anyone so she could booze.
Near as I know my sis is in bad shape from boozing.
When I did drink I'd drink LOTS get really bad sick and end up in a hospital.
No I can't have just one. I've been asked that a thousand times.
"I can have just one. Why can't you?"
It's a chemical reaction you see. I have it and you don't. Count your
blessings.
ONE drink kicks in the chemical reaction and I'm gone.
Science still doesn't fully understand the disease.
Over the years I've been in 3 rehab hospitals for extended stays.
Couple times I nearly died with a b.a.c. of OVER .40%
24 hours AFTER I quit drinking!
It's the family disease no one wants to talk about.
I abstain one day at a time.
Think about something.
American Indians can't consume alcohol without an almost
PROMISE of addiction.
Most people know that.
What most DON'T know is that orientals, including Japanese, CAN'T
safely consume alcohol in anything but tiny amounts. Ergo why the Japanese used tiny amounts of Sake in ceremonies.
Itty bitty tea cups of it.