purpoptart,

Well, knowing my friend, he was probably so pumped up over the fact that he had just totaled his car and our other friend that was in the car with him was taken away in an ambulance (5 fractured ribs) was why he was acting so irrationally with the police officers who responded at the scene of the accident.

You would have to know this guy personally to know how upset he was about totaling his car, for one (he felt for that car the way most people do about their children), and then to see his buddy being carried away in an ambulance had him so upset that all he wanted was to go to the hospital to see if he was OK.

The fact that the officers were "holding him up" was getting him more and more irritated, which of course, made them suspect that he was under the influence of something. When he kept insisting that he doesn't drink and they made him take the breathalyzer, it should have all been done and over with, but with the way he was freaking out, they probably thought that he was under the influence of some kind of illicit drug.

So when they asked him if he was under the influence of any medications, instead of keeping his mouth shut about it, he said something to the effect of "Well, I have a prescription for Klonopin, I can prove it!", and that was definitely not what the cops wanted to hear. Hauled in, blood tested, showed presence of medications in his system, and that was all she wrote from there.

I feel bad for what happened to him, but I definitely think that he handled the situation very badly. He should have just kept his mouth shut about the Klonopin and he would have been released once they were finished writing up the report. But like I said, he was acting out of emotion and not thinking very clearly because he was probably in a mild state of shock over what just happened.

In the meantime, we found out about the accident through the friend who was taken to the hospital. Here's this guy, all banged up with 5 fractured ribs and he's worrying about the guy who got locked up, trying to find out where they took him! And this is the second accident in the past 2 weekends that friends of mine were involved in. I swear, I'm going to start taking the phone off the hook on the weekends if this stuff keeps happening, my nerves can't take it....ugggh.

Bottom line: don't go out driving after you took ANYTHING. I don't care if it was flippin cold medicine, it's just not a good idea. OK, now that I've vented, I feel much better...lol. Sorry for the rant.

Eeyore