Shot Man gets DWI Driving to Hospital
What attracts readers to a blog more, a story about a man who broke the law in a emergency and the police show him no sympathy, or a story of a the police doing there job and a asshole getting what he deserves.
Here is a story, you may have heard about it. It was from Syracuse, NY about a man named Derrick Pride, who was sitting on a corner one evening, minding his own business and was shot in the shoulder. He attempted to drive himself to the hospital but drove the opposite direction of traffic and collided with another car. The police showed up and found that Derrick was drunk and, after getting him medical attention, arrested him on drunken driving charges.
If you’ve seen one of the blogs that posted this story, and read the comments, most people think Derrick should have gotten a break.
Everywhere in the United State, we have a thing called 911. An ambulance would have come straight to him and have gotten treatment a lot sooner than driving himself. But, you might say, he might have not been thinking straight due to the fact he had a bullet in his shoulder. Or, maybe it was the alcohol in him system that made him not think straight?
So instead of having medical attention come to Derrick, he chose to risk him, and every other drive and pedestrian, to drive himself.
Ok, but now let’s look at the follow-up to this story that most blogs didn’t bother saying. After all, the story, as first reported, was too good.
At the hospital, the police help get Derrick out of his bloody clothing and found four grams of crack hiding in his groin area. Derrick was not only drunk but he was either using, or selling crack! One has to wonder if the gunshot he received was just a random, unexplained act of violence that he claimed, or one brought on my his connection to the drug world.
Here is the way the New York Post wrote about the story
All that, and he’s got a hangover.
As Derrick Pride, 39, of upstate Syracuse drove himself to the hospital after being shot, he crashed and was charged with DWI.
He was treated for a shoulder wound and a splitting headache.
Here is the story from syracuse.com
