Most of the time people do not want to go to jail but sometimes they will do things just to go to jail where it is warm.
One night at about 3am they arrested this man for driving under the influence. They brought him into the police station to get a video (back before car videos) of him doing the field sobriety tests. The video is a great tool for court. The video can make or break an officer too.
As they did the tests they also asked him questions. When they asked him to tell them the time without looking at this watch he said about 6:30. They asked him if he meant 6:30 in the evening or morning. He said evening as he had got off work at 5 and stopped to have a beer and had a couple of beers. Why do drunks always say a couple or two beers, never 3 or 1 or 4 always 2.
When they advised him it was 3 in the morning the guys eyes got huge and he said “I’m drunk, I am officer, I am so drunk, you have to take me to jail, my wife will kill me if I come home this late”. At this point he starts taking his clothes off and kept repeating that he was drunk and needed to go to jail.
The officer was trying to keep his clothes on and the drunk was pulling them off as fast as officer could pull them on. They kept trying to tell him that he was in the police station and not jail and to leave them on.
He was so much more worried about his wife killing him then going to jail and one of my all time favorite bookings to watch. The rest of us were in tears from laughing so hard as the drunk is striping and the officer is desperately trying to keep him dressed. I don’t know how the officer kept a straight face except he was so busy. No one could help him as we were all in hysterical laughing fits.
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