Police Interceptor REACTS To Drunk Drivers
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2022
- This week, I sat down to react to some videos of drunk drivers on LIVE PD. From county judges getting arrested to being found asleep with an open can at the wheel to father's driving drunk with their baby in the car😤
What are your thoughts on drunk drivers?
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"I'm a judge!"
"No you're not, you're fucked"
LMFAO!!!!
Three years ago I I drove to the local train station to pick my daughter up. Next thing I woke up with a police officer rocking my car & about ten angry looking people glaring at me. Then two more police cars arrived & breath tested me. It was zero but somebody said I looked hot (it was June) so then an ambulance turned up, then my daughter. Turned out I unknowingly had a very serious chest infection & was hospitalised for IV antibiotics. The attitude of Police (they took my car home) & audience did a one eighty, so bare in mind that somebody might seem drunk, but could simply have become unwell.
Well i'm glad you are ok now, and that everything worked out
Yeah but you can’t blame the police for doing a breath test immediately especially if you had a crash.
@@azhersaeed2817 Crash? I was sat parked in my car, in a train station car park. I was waiting to pick my daughter up from her train when it arrived. Why do you think I'd had a crash?!
She received the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge"
of the US justice system!!!
That judge getting her sentence reduced is absolutely disgusting!! She should of made to suffer the consequences of her actions 🤔😡🤬......
When I worked in EMS the police would sometimes be willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt about being drunk after an accident, and be happy to let them go to the hospital to be checked out, and hence, sober up / not be driving. The amazing thing was the number of people that would look that gift horse in the mouth and get belligerent with the cops. They could have gotten off with a hospital stay and a repair bill, but instead ended up going to jail.
Not to imply that the police in your story were being disingenuous and it's definitely better to get checked out if you've been in an accident. I also 100% agree with everything you said. ETOH intox can turn people into absolute idiots, especially under additional duress. Having said that, I'm in EMS too and even when we transport someone to the hospital the cops are there either right behind us or as we're finishing our paperwork getting pt info so they can at some point come back with a warrant for the blood test results. There have been a few instances where they didn't but most of the time they are after the pt's BAC off the blood test cause once their in the ER they don't need to bother with a breathalyzer test.
@@sarahmacdonald955 This was in the early 90's. I guess they are more strict now.
@@01cthompson Oh yeah. Absolutely fair.
I've heard stories of people sleeping in their cars in a pub car park after getting hammered, throwing their keys in the boot, but still getting done for drunk in charge of a vehicle. It sounds like the best thing to do in this situation would be to leave the keys with the pub landlord.
Or not drive in the first place or, if you are driving, only drink soft drinks.
@@matthewiles5714 That kind of goes without saying. If you're already drunk at the pub with your car outside, and don't happen to have a time machine, it doesn't help much to be told that you should have stuck with soft drinks.
The best thing is not to charge people with crimes they aren't actually committing.
Does that apply even if you're sleeping in the passenger seat or the back seat?
@@aar0n_045 Yes. If you are in the car with your keys, even asleep on the back seat with the keys in the boot, you are deemed to be "in charge" of the vehicle.
10:50 they are instructed never to pull level in case of gunfire, always to approach the person's back whilst monitoring movements including in the mirror.
If they're facing front it's harder to get line of sight on the officer, hence hugging the side of the car as they walk down it.
I worked with US police whilst in the military.
Hope your keeping well Ben, I'm doing a lot better these days after completing my second round with PTSD Resolutions, an awesome charity.
Peace
Charlie
When I read your comment my clock stopped 😂
Hey Ben can you think about doing a video on nonsense calls, like when some idiots call you about their neighbors using the wrong bins, because people always agree it's a waste of police time but I've not heard too many coppers side to these kinda things.
I'd definitely like to hear him and or other more experienced officers thoughts on those calls
I’ve often wondered what the law is on campervans, can I drink whilst parked in a public place and sleep in the van with no intention to drive? Or could I get done? It’s NOT something I do by the way, just interested in how the law would view it..
@@jimmer1976 very interesting topic since essentially your camper is your home as you travel so if you're on holiday parked up somewhere for a few days you want to be able to relax of a night time and have a drink.
I'm a firefighter, we get called to nonsense calls too (neighbors BBQ is blowing smoke over my backyard, my smoke detector is beeping (not alarm, low battery beep), my neighbors shed is on fire for the 3rd time in a week from the same caller when the smoke is clearly coming out of a chimney), summary for me, if its a BS call in the middle of the day and we have nothing else going one then its a minor annoyance, if its 2:00am in the morning then we might get pretty annoyed... We can get sometimes get annoyed enough to charge you with hoax calls though thats pretty unlikely most of the time, even at 2:00am, unless your a repeat offender.
Legal limit here in the states is .08 BAC (breath alcohol concentration) or .08 grams per 210 liters of breath
Doing the math the legal limit in the UK is equivalent to .0735 BAC or .0735 grams of alcohol/210 liters of breath. 35mcg x 2100 (amount of increased breath calculated in US limit) =73500, / 1000000 (micrograms to grams conversion) = .0735
That's insane if my google search is right (my maths was never my strong point) so i had to look :D . This is equivalent to 80 mg UK when the limit is 38 mg. I've had a pint or 3 in my younger days and luckily nothing happened and even i'm shocked at 80 mg being good to go.
Ben can you reacted to the new Police Interceptors it would be cool
A good mate of mine was a sheriff’s deputy when I lived in Florida. He said one night a drunk guy went off the road, hit a telegraph pole & snapped it at the base. When he opened the car door, the guy was sat there fine, but he was so p1ssed, he didn’t even realise what he had done. In my experience, so many people in Florida just don’t value their driving license. I used to struggle to get employees that didn’t have D.U.I. on their license.
thank u for the content Ben, one of the most inspiring youtubeds I’ve ever watched
Hi Ben, thanks for the explanations in certain situations and the advice.
Walking home drunk is so much fun that you can never have a excuse to drink drive. I once walked home from otley to pudsey absolutely smashed on a sunday afternoon.
@Nicky L quite a nice one as well i was in no rush. I just enjoyed it for what it was a nice long walk.
@Ben Pearson
Hey mate
Big fan of the channel. Would you consider doing a video on your experience with / the general consensus that regs had for the Special Constabulary ?
Cheers.
I’d love to see Ben react to the new series of Police Interceptors.
It’s great to see you laughing Ben - it’s encouraging and makes your fans laugh along with you - well me at least 😂 there’s thousands of people who remember you from Police Interceptors - I saw an episode from 2017 or early 2018 a couple of weeks ago, that also featured ‘Baby Ben’ who I think you were mentoring - do you still chat to anyone we’d know? I’m only asking because my former employers were brilliant with me - in my last 4 years I must have had a full year off work and my manager confided that he’d been through it, and I was looking at 18 months ahead of me before I’d be ‘fit for purpose’ - I started crying, and said ‘I’ve already had enough - I can’t do 18 months of this, it’ll kill me, literally (I was 42 at the time).
Well it clearly didn’t kill me, and I’m ten years ahead of that conversation - I felt so valued on one hand, yet knowing I wasn’t pulling my weight and I’d become unreliable, undependable, useless, and an overwhelming sense of guilt for letting them down, especially after they spent 4 years tolerating my erratic attendance and inability to function at the pace required - but they wanted me to get well. A colleague called one evening with a Get Well card with amazing messages of understanding, whilst they were all now doing various aspects of my role but after 4 years the Occ Health told them I was in no way personally responsible, but the stress had to give. It meant choosing my wife and kids, or the job I’d worked so hard for.
I’m still not fit for work - I’m a full-time stay-at-home Mum and Dad doing school runs and cooking - I wanted to go back to work, it was so exhausting, I don’t know how Mum’s do it - I’m still doing it….., but I feel so much better mentally (most days) - and my cooking is toxic!
But thank you for cheering me up; perfect timing. Take care buddy, and stay strong, you’re doing a fantastic job and should be extremely proud of yourself. 👍😉
Geez, what a rambling, sleep-inducer this message is. 💙👍
When it gets you, it gets you buddy.
I like you have been to depths of misery I hope most people never get to experience.
When people say to me "I understand" I often answer, I hope for your sake you don't"
Stay strong, we have to live the life were given, it is what it is.
But it's fkn hard some days.
Charlie
@@charliemanson4808 Thanks Charlie - yeah, it’s damned hard sometimes pal. My health is failing as I get older now too, and I’ve been dreading that my whole life. There’s a definite feeling of being on the other side of fit and healthy, things take longer to recover from - and misery loves company lol. Not me, I’m having a hard time tolerating people who think they have it tough. Cheers bro. Take care. 👍
when I worked on ships all the security officers are ex-coppers and we have regular random breathalisers for alcohol and they always say watch your beers the night before as can breathalise you in the morning - doesn't matter about an arbitrary 'limit' it's what you've eaten, your size, weight etc
Hi Ben love your videos
I’m here via beard then josh then to you, loved watching interceptors . Great channel great content 👌
Fire content as always
Is just me that thinks the pissed up female judge sounded like “drunk Cher”??? Missed the golden opportunity of playing “If I could turn back time” 😂😂
i was literally rewatching all the react content on this channel like an hour ago
Hi Ben, love these uploads!.... I might be wrong but whereas we use micrograms to measure, they use percent "In California, a permissible alcohol level in blood in equal to 0.08% for adult non-commercial drivers who are not on DUI probation. Commercial drivers, when operating a commercial vehicle, are permitted to have no more then 0.04% blood alcohol content"
Good video Ben! Try get some UK clips next time from Road Wars and stuff, I bet you will have more observations and funny stories about about them.
Another top vid.
Almost 50% of our OVI's now are drug only or a combination of drugs and alcohol. Highest one I got was a habitual alcoholic that was plastered on a Sunday Afternoon at 1pm. Tested .278 BAC. Legal limit back then was still .10
Law & Order in the 21st Century.
Is also converts directly to a percentage of blood alcohol concentration.
"Holy sheeeet" 😅🙌
My thing is with breath is if you bottle but don't care about blood or urine and they would still prosecute for being drunk in charge just because without tacking blood or urine
How on Earth can it be a crime to sleep in your own car? Surely that’s the sensible thing to do in that situation??
The one I have always wondered is what is the rule for a camper van? If you have been drinking and your sleeping in a camper van is that allowed? Dose location affect it as well, so if your on a camp site are there different laws in affect?
If the engine is turned off I believe thats ok
Interesting question. I know someone who got arrested for sleeping in their car after a night out. They had the keys in their pocket and police said they were drunk in charge of a motor vehicle.
@@acer908 There's whole books of case law about those sorts of circumstances!
Basically, yes, you're still "in charge" of the vehicle but contentious cases with unusual circumstances would be looked at individually by the court. As far as the police are concerned, it would be a case of making the arrest to be on the safe side, and then letting let the court decide.
I nearly got arrested for drunk in charge of a vehicle when sleeping in my car, in the arse end of nowhere when I had a double blowout on the M6 near Carlisle. Managed to limp it off a junction and parked round the back of a garage then got a ride into the nearest town and had a nice dinner and a couple of bottles of wine. Kipped in the car so I was there for the garage opening and got rudely awakened at 4am by a copper tapping on the window. Luckily when I told them the story and pointed out the tyres they let me go back to sleep lol.
I had a friend killed and 30 years ago by a drunk driver. He was on remand for 3 months and the Judge said time served and let him go. RIP Kirsty
Your reaction to the "reduced to 3" 😂😂😂😂😂
Hi Ben. What are your opinions on spotters & What are your opinions on Auditors. (Spotter = Record emergency services responding/driving around | Auditor = Harres these emergency services to get a responce) I'm a spotter btw. I do it in West Yorkshire but also Lancashire every now and then.
5:06 He blew a 0.20 and the limit is 0.08 so he is very much over by two and half times.
Question, see in regards to section 4 what about the likes of car camping if you had a few drinks but we’re sleeping in the car
Been in the sun Ben
Legal limit in the US is .08. Blowing a .21 is literally a level where you could legitimately hospitalize them because that alcohol poisoning can kill them.
210 in the UK is exactly 6 times drink drive limit
You should watch "waiting for a mate" from the Australian show either "highway patrol" or "RBT" for a more light hearted drink driving incident
Hi Ben, re: sleeping in the vehicle, either sober, or over the limit, what's the situation with regard to motorhomes and camper vans?
You mean behind the wheel or in a bed in the back?
Hey Ben, interesting point about no intention to drive. What about if you have no license or insurance on that vehicle? Can you then argue that you weren't going to drive or will they assume you were going to drive illegally without license or insurance?
Id like to see a reaction vid of you reacting to you reacting to vids
The BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) limit is .080 in the US. I'm not sure what unit of measurement it is, but that's the legal limit. Most departments also call a taxi, or someone the driver knows, if it's over .060, or so, that's a judgement call by the officers at that point.
For UK breathalyzers it’s 35 micrograms per 100 ml of breath. Which is the equivalent of 0.08%
So, a bit of a tale:-
A special is out with a reg, returning to the station. They’re flagged down by 3young men beside a car park, & told that the men witnessed an old chap stagger up the hill from the “main strip” fall over, and stagger to a car in the car park. So the drive about & stop beside the car where said old boy is asleep behind the wheel. Special note no keys in the ignition (for fairness).
Disturb the old boy whom seemed a little dazed and confused. Breath box in their patrol car is out of calibration and shuts down in a “Computer says no! *cough* “ stylee.
Radio request for a working breath box results in another out of calibration box being dropped off, but it’s a busy Fri night so no other offers, local or countywide.
Special, (old guy, newish to policing but experienced in life), says they’ll have to arrest on suspicion of drunk in charge, reg (15month probie) phones Sarge for advice, Sarge says same as special. By this time old boy is quite perky, and enjoying the situation in a relaxed, “Nought I can do.” attitude, and says, “This is one off the bucket list, getting arrested.”
Back to the nick, booked in, on the intoxilyser where he blows zero, confirming his (all too often misused) phrase, “I had a pint in [insert name of pub]”. The old boy has stated he has a balance issue, inner ear damage, hence his instability and fall. Now perfectly believable, but until tested, it’s not so much they Don’t believe him, way more they MUSTN’T!
Reg & Special return old boy to car, to find it now has a parking charge notice on it.
Special gives the old boy a “Cad Note” with the Cad number on it, and his force email, so the old boy can challenge his ticket WITH support, the Special saying that he’ll personally respond asap if contacted.
Special heard no more, but he does recall the wobbly old boy with relish, as it could have been so very different.
11:16 interesting backstory to the tattoos actually. his son supposedly had passed and those were drawings the kid had made that he had tattooed on after
Edit: ok so that's what I've read on a lot of Live PD comment sections but I cant actually find anything about it on the internet. So take this comment with a grain of salt. I'm not looking to spread misinformation
The last guy was a State Trooper. Troopers are known for the hats, patent leather, and giving zero fucks lmao. Grandad was Trooper for over 20 years.
what about sleeping in a campervan over the limit but leaving your keys with the pub manager until they open the next day?
Hope your well
I think there should be a zero drink drive limit, then everyone knows where they are
Anyone remember that phrase "sober as a judge" ? 🤔
One thing you mentioned is that it's not a defence in law to say you didn't know what you were doing because you were drunk. I think that's true as long as you intended to get drunk. It might be a defence if your drinks were spiked or you were otherwise drugged without your knowledge or consent.
That first bloke was lucky it was the cops that got to him first.
Always makes me wonder what the score is with campervan and motor home owners that park up in public areas with the intention to stay the night and have a drink in the evening.🤔
There's whole books of case law about those sorts of circumstances!
Basically, yes, you're still "in charge" of the vehicle but contentious cases with unusual circumstances would be looked at individually by the court. As far as the police are concerned, it would be a case of making the arrest to be on the safe side, and then letting let the court decide.
The voiceover was incorrect about the judge. She didn't get her sentence reduced it was a suspended sentence, similarly the fine was suspended as well.
According to a chart I have seen...
.08 = 38
.10 = 48
.11 = 52
.15 = 71
.20 = 95
.30 = 143
The judge gets a single clean cell, where is this ?
I know a stupid tvvat who always thought he could drive while drunk because "I can handle my drink really well", one night he decided to hammer a couple of glasses of whiskey into him and drive home and crashed the car. And while he was alone in the car, he was already under investigation by child services because of claims he was an unfit parent.. he was found by the police, inside his car, upside down in a field, they took him in, arrested him for drink driving and shortly afterwards the child was taken away from him. Now that child is in foster care because he doesn't have a mum, and effectively he doesn't have a dad anymore either, a because some d¡ckhead thinks he can still manage himself when he's had too much to drink.
Might be better off without him.
Constabulary. Police.
can you get drunk if angry sat in your car but it never left your house and you can proof you live there etc? i know that sounds daft but long as you dont drive and leave keys in house and you just have cranked radio to rock out can they still get arrested?
Is it true that if you put keys in boot of the car then that is a defence for being drunk and asleep in your car?
had police stop me from behind and its regally seen in Surrey how you speaking for officers when its blatantly done differently Daily man
Where do you stand, having a drink in a camper van parked up for the night
Is it still classed as still being in control of a vehicle?
A good interview to do would be with tony long the ex met police armed officer and author of lethal force. Just an idea. Keep your chin up ben.
Would US breath test results be in imperial measurement?
No, it's in percent concentration estimated in blood.
ben, years ago i attended a ex army function,the taxi i booked never turned up so i used my car to get there.after the function again the taxi never materialized,so i got on the back seat of my car AFTER placing the keys into the glovebox,4 am inthe morning i was woken up by gmp and taken to a police stn and charged with being in charge of a vehicle whilst under the influence.being a former hgv dvr i,d booked the next day off and still intended to taxi home in the morning,whats your view to my dissition and would you of charged me,to this day i have thought they were unfair...
There's whole books of case law about those sorts of circumstances!
Basically, yes, you're still "in charge" of the vehicle but contentious cases with unusual circumstances would be looked at individually by the court. As far as the police are concerned, it would be a case of making the arrest to be on the safe side, and then letting let the court decide.
@@robertstallard7836 funny you should "qoute the book" as one of the pc,s who booked me said at the stn, if it had been left to me i,d have taken your keys off you placed them in the stn and left you to sleep.but my partner is up for sgt and wants the points. THAT REALLY PISSED ME....
@@bernehalligan
Yes; I think a lot would do that in those circumstances.
That said, it sounds like you were already pissed! 😁
Question for you Ben.. what if you got in the car with no intentions to drive the vehicle but just to stay dry for the night??
Would it be possible to chuck the keys in the boot so they're well out of the way proving no intentions??
There's whole books of case law about those sorts of circumstances!
Basically, yes, you're still "in charge" of the vehicle but contentious cases with unusual circumstances would be looked at individually by the court. As far as the police are concerned, it would be a case of making the arrest to be on the safe side, and then letting let the court decide.
@@robertstallard7836 well obviously the CPS/state would decide it goes to court not the police, but certainly grounds for arrest.
Do not do something you are going to regret, bit late for that one
How does this work with HGV drivers who are sleeping in their trucks on a night out? If I've been out for a couple of pints after a shift then gone back into the truck then I'd be considered to be in charge of the vehicle, but my tachograph would mean legally I couldn't drive that vehicle because of working time legislation.
Legally you couldn't drive it, but physically you could.
The word of a witness is hearsay and not evidence in my book...
To clear up your confusion: "hearsay" is what a person (who wasn't there) heard a third party say about an incident, rather than what they themselves saw/heard/felt/smelt etc.
Your wife comes into the house and says to you "I just saw little jimmy break the window". She can give that evidence in court because she saw it. You can't becasue you didn't actually witness it.
@@robertstallard7836 I know I used the wrong terminology but I couldn't think what the right term was... my point is that you can have someone who dislikes you say that you did something that you didn't, and be arrested because of that, a prejudiced witness perhaps...
@@STEVIEBHOY Yes, it can happen.
In such circumstances the arrest would be perfectly lawful of course (The police need only suspicion that a crime has been committed) and then it would be a case of letting the court decide if all the evidence together was sufficent for a conviction.
Can you do a reaction video to (“the other guys”) movie 🎥 think that would be really funny to see your reaction if you haven’t seen it before.
High levels of dopamine in extreme situations. Making correct life saving decisions in fear of losing life, and then on a personal level having to relive it in paperwork, staring at a blank page. Articulate person with nothing to say.
So could you sleep in your car drunk if you put the keys in a timed lock box?
There's whole books of case law about those sorts of circumstances!
Basically, yes, you're still "in charge" of the vehicle but contentious cases with unusual circumstances would be looked at individually by the court. As far as the police are concerned, it would be a case of making the arrest to be on the safe side, and then letting let the court decide.
You see to think all these incidents are somewhat hilarious. They all appear to be diet in th the U.S. or so so mother part o North America. I have never been suspected or even pulled over for being suspected of drink driving. However, back in the 70s, I used to oftebn drive to work and sleep in the back of myLand Rover - it was a suggestion made by my boss - when I first did this, they couldn’t work out why I wasn’t at work - it took them about half an hour to work out that €was ‘spark out’ in the Bach with the curtains drawn, and my boss had the temerity to shout and abuse me for being lax te! Another tme I left a party at about p1:00 hourds to drive about twenty five minutes home. I woke up with a stiff neck, at a stop sign, at o:25, with the engine still idling. I often wondered how many people had driven around me whilst I was asleep.. I remember when the rules changed and having the car keys with me wouldn’t help if I slept in the back, so I used to tape them under the inside back of tthe chassis - only once d was I asked by a policeman where the keys were, and I told him that a friend had taken them away, in case I drove]. ‘Could I please go back to sleep? Kinda told yes - I turned out my pockets and a brief search of the car was made. I wonder what those who live. In motor homes do if ther have a few night caps? I lived on on a narrowboat for six years, after retiring - this wasn’t a problem, thank goodness.
React to auditing Britain
In the US it's. .08bal
I have had multiple times where I have been drunk and I have still been sensible enough to be nice to the officers dealing with it and reason what has happened 😂 these people are a joke though I suppose I have never drunk drove so I am not in that situation and never will be
Are you allowed to sleep in the back of the car while drunk?
The limit should be zero. And since it isn't, being "under the limit" should be irrelevant if any amount of alcohol is found in a driver that's committed a driving offense, so if someone mowed down a pedestrian because they were impaired despite only blowing 22 on the evidence machine (not just roadside) it should stand as a drink related driving offense and be punished as such.
Drunk drivers should be banned from the roads for life.. vehicles seized & crushed.
😉
one of my friends one night drank 7 pints then drove us all home we were young back then and 18 so 7 years ago , he got pulled and breath tested and passed, he shit himself and then passed what do you think caused that because it happened
Why are you using another country's law as an example and not our own it depeats the purpose
Why are we watching AMERICAN drunk drivers - no shortage of English DUI’s surely ?! Diminishes vid no end to me I’m afraid- , as any American perspective does ( just too different) - sorry but have to be honest.