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You ever wake up in the ER and have no clue how you got there?
By adamg on Mon, 12/08/2014 - 1:28pm
Capt. John Greland at District C-6 reports that around 4 a.m. yesterday, police found a car outside 840 Summer St. with the engine, radio and wipers all running but "nobody in it, blood all over the steering wheel."
About 3 1/2 hours later, he reports, officers found the owner, who "stated he spent the night in the hospital and doesn't know what happened."
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Can I get this guys
Contact info? I want whatever he took.
Propofol
Propofol
Roofies
Sometimes, the drink doesn't make it to its intended victim.
I wonder if you can get a DUI
I wonder if you can get a DUI for having a positive tox screen at the hospital....and if the cops could get a copy of your medical records with this level of PC
Re: I wonder if you can get a DUI
It would be difficult to get an OUI conviction. I doubt they'd even try unless the blood on the steering wheel came from some serious car or pedestrian accident which doesn't seem likely since there's no report of body damage in the story. In cases like this, the owner would have to either admit to operating intoxicated on a public way or some witness(es) would have to testify to same. Then there's the question of whether he was intoxicated at the time he was driving or if he ingested anything between leaving the car and arriving at the hospital. A subpoena is usually allowed for medical records in OUI's but the info is only admissible if the medical staff decided the blood tests were necessary. The police can't order a blood test without a warrant. If they do, the test is usually not allowed into evidence. The blood tests get even more complicated depending on how they are stored and whether proper preservatives are added to the sample to prevent fermentation. A good defense lawyer can argue the admissibility of an OUI blood test for days.
http://losangeles.california-drunkdriving.org/blood_fermentation.html
Movie
Why does this sound like the beginning to a Law & Order episode?
Broaden to any bed/sofa, not just ER bed
and its a Cosby episode.
If it were the beginning
of a Law and Order episode, they would have also found a dead body in the trunk - and it wouldn't have been the person who smashed their head on the steering wheel.
I grew up with a kid that
I grew up with a kid that couldn't handle his alcohol very well. A group of friends would all go out for a night on the town and he would often drink the same as us but always black out. One night he disappeared from a bar some time before closing time. We all assumed he took a cab home when the bar turned the "go home" lights on. So we leave the bar and see an ambulance at the bar next door. Being insensitive, young and naive 21-22 years olds we jokingly said "oh they are probably here for xxx for blacking out drunk somewhere". Turns out that they were.
He ended up passed out in a womens restroom at the other bar. Taken to the ER where he was catheterized and mobitored until the next morning.
Now, he doesn't drink anymore, which is a good thing. But, I bet he can understand what this guy went through.
Something sounds rather weird here!
What was the guy doing at the bar next door, if his black-out wasn't alcohol-related?
What about the story makes you think it wasn't?
Sounds like the guy was prone to this sort of thing when drinking.
Also, I don't really buy the "roofies" comments. Have people never been blackout drunk? (If not, great; nothing good comes of it.) Alcohol alone can be completely incapacitating. Mixing alcohol with almost anything else certainly can.
Hmmmmm....
Could somebody have "slipped him a mickey" without him knowing it? Inotherwords, put some "roofies" in his drink?
It kind of sounds like it, to me.
Everyone hold your horses for a sec...
There's no evidence in what we've seen so far, that the guy was in any way impaired due to drugs or alcohol. It's entirely possible that this was a failed carjacking during which the guy was hit on the head, or that he hit something and took a whack to the head and passed out...
May not even be alcohol related
A diabetic with super low blood sugar can black out, crash their face, act intoxicated, etc.
EMS
He is at least a mile from the nearest hospital... I doubt he walked himself there. Can't BPD just track down the ambulance that brought him to the hospital and talk to the medics? Should give them a good idea of what this guys shape was after the crash
EMS & BPD
I feel like if EMS showed up and saw a guy bloody in a running vehicle they would have called the police to the scene then and told them what they knew.
I hate to mess with this exciting roofie narrative...
...but with a head injury, it's quite common to not remember how you got injured.
ha!
sounds like my ex...