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roger k
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A routine police patrol parked outside a local pub. At closing time the officer noticed a man leaving the bar, so drunk he could barely walk. While the officer watched him, the man stumbled around the car park for a few minutes.
After what seemed an eternity, lurching around and trying his keys in five different vehicles, he managed to find his own car, and fell into it. He sat there for a few minutes as several other people left the pub and drove off. Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off, flicked the hazard flasher, tooted the horn and then switched on his lights.
He drove the car forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained stationary for a few more minutes as more people left the pub in their cars. At last he drove out of the car park and started driving slowly down the street. The police officer, after waiting patiently all this time, started up his patrol car, turned on all the lights and blues and twos, promptly pulled the drunk over and carried out a breathalyzer test.
To his amazement, the breathalyzer showed the man hadn't drunk any alcohol at all. Dumbfounded, the policeman said,
"I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station, sir. The breathalyzer equipment seems to be broken."
"I doubt it, officer," came the reply. Tonight I'm the designated decoy."
After what seemed an eternity, lurching around and trying his keys in five different vehicles, he managed to find his own car, and fell into it. He sat there for a few minutes as several other people left the pub and drove off. Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off, flicked the hazard flasher, tooted the horn and then switched on his lights.
He drove the car forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained stationary for a few more minutes as more people left the pub in their cars. At last he drove out of the car park and started driving slowly down the street. The police officer, after waiting patiently all this time, started up his patrol car, turned on all the lights and blues and twos, promptly pulled the drunk over and carried out a breathalyzer test.
To his amazement, the breathalyzer showed the man hadn't drunk any alcohol at all. Dumbfounded, the policeman said,
"I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station, sir. The breathalyzer equipment seems to be broken."
"I doubt it, officer," came the reply. Tonight I'm the designated decoy."