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Archae

(46,361 posts)
Sun May 5, 2019, 10:42 AM May 2019

How stupid and dangerous are drunks?

I saw this story at a Milwaukee TV station, paramedic shows up for training, is drunk off his ass, and has a gun.

Paramedic accused of going to training drunk, with gun

Police said Jeffrey Munson,58, of Elm Grove, was intoxicated and armed with a loaded gun when he went to training last month.

https://www.wisn.com/article/paramedic-accused-of-going-to-training-drunk-with-gun/27360766

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How stupid and dangerous are drunks? (Original Post) Archae May 2019 OP
Some drunks are smarter than all get out. I was. Shrike47 May 2019 #1
Asshole should do what I do: get drunk at home, alone, when there's no one else around. Aristus May 2019 #2
I'm with you mate ... and then order delivery when you get hungry (nt) mr_lebowski May 2019 #3
Wonder what percentage of Grubhub and DoorDash customers are drunks or stoners. democratisphere May 2019 #4
It depends. ananda May 2019 #5
Time to retire n/t shanti May 2019 #6
Detroit Cop, early April irisblue May 2019 #7
Pretty stupid and dangerous. MineralMan May 2019 #8

Aristus

(66,481 posts)
2. Asshole should do what I do: get drunk at home, alone, when there's no one else around.
Sun May 5, 2019, 10:45 AM
May 2019

Granted, there are few opportunities to get really loaded unless family are out of town. But still...

irisblue

(33,039 posts)
7. Detroit Cop, early April
Sun May 5, 2019, 12:54 PM
May 2019

snip-“The bottom line is that he showed up to work under the influence of alcohol,” Craig told the television station. “This was a Michigan State Police training, he blew a .08. Certainly that’s a problem, it’s a problem for me, and it may be a problem on how it was handled after that.”

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2019/04/06/detroit-police-officer-drunk-michigan-state-police/3386414002/



MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
8. Pretty stupid and dangerous.
Sun May 5, 2019, 01:33 PM
May 2019

We just had a deadly shooting here in St. Paul at a local bar. 2 AM, closing time. Some idiot shot someone just outside the bar and killed him. 2 AM. What are the odds that the shooter was sober? Slim, I'm guessing.

Probably both the shooter and victim were drunk. I can't remember ever seeing someone stayin in a bar until closing who wasn't.

Drunk people with guns are very, very dangerous, and very, very stupid, as a rule.

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