He's pretty much Opie - except he doesn't normally drive (though he has and has some violations) and he has somehow managed to avoid ever doing serious time.
He and a friend were growing weed. The cops took it. He and his friend broke into the cop's storage unit and stole all their weed back. They didn't touch anything else, they just stole their weed back.
Somehow, probably to save more embarrassment from the ordeal, he did like two weeks in jail for that. The other dude was on probation, so he ended up going to prison.
In this case, T-Bone is adamant that he doesn't know anything - and he's sticking to it. (Just like Ol' Buddha taught him!)
Man, in one case I was driving shitfaced. T-Bone was with me. We stopped to piss and a cop drove by, turned around, and came back. We knew he was coming back so we just sat there and waited. When he got to us he had all sorts of questions but we both agreed that the driver had seen him and run off into the woods. Obviously, so we told him, we were too drunk to drive. That's why our friend, whose name we couldn't remember, had taken off into the woods. They were too drunk to drive as well!
The cop was mostly annoyed and made us get the car towed back to my house. He knew damned well that one of us had been driving.
I've actually used that same story more than once. "It wasn't me, officer. I'm obviously too drunk to drive. The real driver ran off when he saw you coming!"
That's a good one. Kind of like that guy Petey who put his car in my ditch early last summer, he told the cops his mom was driving and she was at the hospital. Cause he was obviously too drunk to drive, and his mom was in the hospital
I've managed to get away with a whole lotta shit by just not answering the cop's questions like they wanted me to.
"Sir, I haven't got a damned clue what you're on about."
Unless it's a crime against me or someone I love, I'm probably not even going to give the police a statement. There are obvious exceptions. Like, if I see someone beat and rob an old woman, I'm probably gonna give a statement and I'm probably gonna testify in court.
But, something like a driving offense? Pfft.... Ain't nobody dead, so I didn't see a damned thing. I don't care if I was in the car, I didn't see a damned thing. Hell, I didn't even give a statement to the police when my femur got smashed. I believe I told 'em that I'd decline to talk to them until I could speak with my lawyer. They never asked me for a statement since.
The DA did ask me for a statement, which I crafted with the help of said lawyer. They decided to not put me on the stand.
They also didn't need one iota of a statement from me. Nope... There was a clear trail of evidence! Undeniable evidence, even! LOL They didn't need a damned thing from me.
Yeah I am sure they had his BAC and the wrecked car way off the road to prove their case
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