DRUNK COPS? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

A retired austin police detective and his police commander wife were killed in a motorcycle wreck after participating in a "poker run" over the weekend. Turns out, he was 3 times over the limit and she was 4 times over the limit...i.e; they were shitface, snot slinging drunk. here's part of an article in this weeks chronicle about it:

On Saturday afternoon, Bobby Joe Bailey was working at his restaurant, Cedars Bar and Grill on Highway 71. Bailey's establishment was scheduled to be the last stop on a "poker run," a popular charity event during which motorcyclists make five sequential stops – typically at bars and/or restaurants – retrieving a playing card at each stop, in an attempt to build the best five-card poker hand. APD officers organized the Dec. 11 run through western Travis Co. as a fundraiser for a colleague suffering from multiple sclerosis. According to APD sources, Kurt Jacobson was happy to take part in the run – at least in part, they say, because 12 years ago he too had been diagnosed with MS, a degenerative disease that affects the central nervous system. By midafternoon, Bailey said, the bar and grill he opened nearly five years ago was filled with poker-run participants.

By poker run participants, he means austin cops, about 120 of them. Here's another blurb:

Some time around 5pm, the festivities took a wrong turn. According to Bailey, he was preparing to leave the restaurant when one of the poker riders, Kurt Jacobson, rode his motorcycle into the restaurant and did an extended burnout – engaging the bike's front brakes, popping the clutch and revving the engine in order to race the rear wheel – right in the middle of the dining room. "It was bad with the burning rubber," Bailey recalled Tuesday, so bad that many patrons fled for fresh air and the band "quit playing and wouldn't come back." Indeed, the rear-wheel burnout ate through the restaurant's floor, down to the concrete, and left a black slick of burnt rubber.

Bailey asked Kurt to "take it outside." Kurt took the bike back out to the parking lot, Bailey said, and that's the last he saw of him. He doesn't know whether Kurt returned to the restaurant; he says he didn't follow him outside and couldn't keep tabs on the 100-plus similarly dressed riders. Shortly thereafter, just after 5pm, Bailey left the restaurant, and the dining room of poker riders, in the hands of his employees – among them bartender Candi Summers. Two hours later, the Jacobsons died after Kurt's motorcycle slammed into a highway guardrail less than two miles from Bailey's restaurant. When police arrived at the scene, sources say, the motorcycle's smashed speedometer read 90 mph. Neither the driver, Kurt Jacobson, nor his passenger and wife, Shauna, had been wearing a helmet.

If you want the rest, go here: Austin Chronicle.

OK...having been in the "helping field" for about 20 years, I can tell you with some level of confidence and experience that the top 10 substance abusing professions start off like this:
#1 (tie) Cops, nurses and mental health workers.
Cops are different though, most of us have seen and heard on TV shows and news reports that cops are dangerously fraternal (thin blue line and all that shit) and insular when one of their own gets caught in the crossfire, but what's lesser known is how arrogant they are in a really perverted way in regard to what "they" can get away with in society vs. the people they regularly arrest (non-cops).
Before I go any further, let me cover my ass by giving the obligatory "not all cops are like that" statement. They might not all be flaming drunks, but they are all arrogant and above the law they swear to enforce to some degree or another. If your'e getting the impression I don't like them, as a rule, I don't. Generally I regard them as a necessary evil, kind of like deet mosquito repellant.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand.
There were about 120 other cops present, this cop ( cops are like marines, even though he was retired, he's still a cop to his brothers and sisters) rides his bike into a bar and burns a fucking hole through the floor down to the foundation and nobody bats an eye in regard to his sobriety? Please. And then the bartender gets arrested for being drunk on duty and over serving??? Several witnesses and the bar owner swear she wasn't drunk and the time the"victims"* spent at the bar was not long enough to get 3 and 4 times past the legal limit.
This incident is tragic on a number of levels. Two people died. Their brothers and sisters didn't intervene. The bar owner and bar tender are under the gun for over serving (this is texas law, if I get shitfaced at a bar and on the way home crash and burn and kill someone or myself, the establishment is liable...even if I drank a fifth of vodka at home,then went out to eat and had a rocks no salt or maybe 2...they get saddled with it ).
*To me, they are victims of their own folly, and those other 120 cops should of done something besides laugh, or clap, or whatever the fuck they did besides intervene.
This is not over...not by a long shot...the APD has shown their ass again, lets see if they can make this one go away.