[DouglasKC]

In my younger and way stupider days some friends and I went out drinking. One of my friends was driving and as we were leaving a bar he clipped the car next to us while pulling out of his spot. Being drunk and dumb we laughed and urged him to just leave so we did.He dropped off everyone else and me last since I lived like a block away.

Next day we find out that he had been ticketed for leaving the scene of an accident and drunk driving.

He had gone home, gone into his house, forgotten something in his car (parked in a public lot), and found the police at his car, who were there based on the fact that someone had written down his license plate.

So they arrested him for drunk driving without ever actually seeing him behind the wheel. So we concocted a scheme. He contacted the driver of the car he hit (a good old boy probably drunk himself) and made it right with him so he wouldn't testify/or press charges. I offered to say that I was actually driving and had dropped him and his car off and walked home.

We got a lawyer, stuck to our story and the charges were dropped before our hearing.

I'm not proud of it, but there's a LOT of leeway when it comes to getting arrested for DUI.

[Daffynition]

What irks me is that even in his impaired state, this guy probably thought he was doing the right thing. And as always... the cop knows better than we do, in all matters. Discretion be damned.