[jhynesrockmtn]

Cops, common sense, judgement.....

My son was 20, at a low key daytime, few people having a few beers type of thing. His buddies mom and the friend were having issues and she found out he had friends over and called the cops. My son's GF was their designated driver and had nothing. My son had had two beers. They go to leave and two cops pulled up. A male and female.

The male asks a few questions, determines GF had not been drinking, gives him a warning about underage drinking and is letting them on their way when the partner steps in and goes power hungry cop on them. They did submit to a Breathalyzer and he blew a ,08%, the GF nothing. Booked and charged with minor in possession.

Long story short the charges were deferred at court and he ended up ok. He does have this on his military record and if he hadn't been top of his class, would have lost his ROTC scholarship. Good lesson for him and in retrospect I was glad he got busted but the lack of common sense and difference in the way the two officers were handling this was startling. Not to mention clogging the courts with unnecessary cases. I never expected either of my kids to never drink. My message to them was never drive and call me if ever in trouble.