Summer of 1969 in New Orleans La, I saw something I had never seen before and have never seen since - Cops helping a drunk *into* his car.
I don't blame any one who doubts this.
I couldn't believe it even as I watched it.
Yup. Times were different in NOLA back then. Out on Canal Street past the cemetery going towards Lake Pontchartrain there was a place named L’Enfants that was basically a drive in bar/parking lot. Multiple cars parked and servers took your order and delivered your drinks to you. People would leave there and go drag race on the not yet completed I-10 bypass out towards Metarie. Not that I ever did that. ;-)
Off duty fellow cop?
[Summer of 1969 in New Orleans La, I saw something I had never seen before and have never seen since - Cops helping a drunk *into* his car.
I don’t blame any one who doubts this.
I couldn’t believe it even as I watched it.]
I believe it. In 1997 at the Brickyard 400 I was dumbfounded at the amount of heavily intoxicated people coming out and getting into their cars and driving away. It was amazing. I expected a 10,000 car pileup on the highway.
While heading down the interstate from Indianapolis raceway, I saw trooper after trooper with people pulled over dumping beer cans on the side of the road.
Never saw anything like that since and can only imagine what it is like down in NO at this time.
Dude, I was 7-years-old in a bingo parlor in New Orleans with my granny and I walked up to the window and asked the guy for a root beer. When I was walking away and started drinking, it tasted weird. Guy gave a 7-year-old beer. Now, you could say he figured I was getting it for an oldster. I say “only in New Orleans.”