The guy asleep in his car blocking the drive through. Why didn't management knock on the window wake him up and help him to move the car to a parking space in the parking lot? Why was the automatic response to call the cops? I don't get it. He should not have been driving while drunk. He wasn't. He was smart enough to either sleep it off or pass out from being drunk. That was preferable to driving while drunk as a skunk and killing someone.
Did the Wendy's people think at all about options? Why was the first and only option to CALL A COP?
Because ordinary people don’t have any authority.
In a perfect world, one could ask another to move as they were blocking the driveway and the person would move (and maybe even apologize). But this aint no prefect world! 9 times out of 10, the offender either ignores the request or tells the other person to “F-off”. What’cha gonna do about it? Unless the asker is stronger than the offender is, they have little recourse than to walk to wherever it is they wanted to go (might makes right). Or, they could get a gun and shoot the offender. Problem solved. Case closed.
Sad to say, but many people are a-holes. They think they can do whatever they want to with no consequences (it's their "right"). How many times are we told NOT to drive while intoxicated? Any correspondence from the DMV comes with a flier stating at what point a person is legally drunk – in 2 languages. The law requires all advertising for alcohol to say, “Drive responsibly. Don’t drive while intoxicated”. One can hear a PSI about it on TV nearly every day (especially during holidays). Yet even with all this, more than 4 million people still drive drunk in the US every year. In California alone, over 10,000 people die from an “encounter” with a drunk driver each year. People do not listen.
People who are under the influence (alcohol or drugs) can do some prey scary things. Some carry needles or weapons, while some are simply obstinate. On top of that, they can have diseases that they’d love to “share” (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis). Personally, I don’t want to be around people like that, let alone have to ask one of them to get out of my driveway. What if they aren’t dissipated? What if they’re “mentally unstable”? Have you ever encountered a “crazy” person? Sure, some may be harmless, but some are downright dangerous! Who’s to say if the person you encounter is harmless or if they’ll try to kill you?
The police are the people we put in authority to take care of these matters and uphold the laws. In other words, their job is to serve the public and keep them safe. Otherwise, every Tom, Dick and Harriet would be a law unto themselves.
Bingo! (*applause*)
Not only is it how it used to be, but it’s what it still should be!!
Yes, we treat police as it they are "infallible" (yea, gods?). But we turned a blind eye as police forces turned into militaries. We turned a blind eye as police unions made it nearly impossible to administer disciplinary action. We refused to allow criminals to be punished (give ‘em a slap on the wrist an let ‘em go). We complained as crime increased. We voted in bonds to give police more money (In theory to hire more officers, but as we can see it was used otherwise). We wanted the police to be armed to the teeth (for their own protection). Now some police officers strut around like roosters. They talk and act tough, like a bully on a school playground. We kept trying to ignore the warning signs (brutality, racism, etc.), saying it was only a few isolated incidents. Now look where we are.
Shuhak 