I’ve long heard the stories about the Mayors carousing though this is the most shocking comment I’ve heard on the subject.
“I know him. I know his problem…”
So the Mayor has been picked from the floor of a local tavern, according to this gentleman multiple times.
So how else can you help someone in a car crash where intoxication appears to be suspected?
You can pick him up:
One of the officers, Carmel Police Lt. Adam Miller, was wearing a wireless microphone that captured the conversation:
Lt. Miller: “Mayor, how are you doing? You alright?”
Brainard: “I’m fine, thank you. I don’t know, I may have slipped over. I was struggling to stay awake earlier. But I don’t think so. Maybe.”
Lt. Miller: “As far as the whole testing process and everything, do you just want to do that through HR? Or do you want us to help you with that? How do you want to handle that?”
Brainard: “Oh, do I need to be tested? Yeah, I do, don’t I?”
Lt. Miller: “Because it is a tow-away.”
Brainard: “Yeah.”
Lt. Miller: “If we’re going to tow it.”
Brainard: “Yeah, sure.”
Carmel’s drug and alcohol testing policy requires city employees driving city-owned vehicles to take a post-crash test as soon as possible if one or more of the vehicles involved “incur disabling damage and must be transported away from the accident scene by a tow truck.”
Based on the conversation caught by Miller’s mic, the officers thought Brainard was on his way to do just that.
Officer 1: “He’s walking back to City Hall to talk to Barb so he can go get his pee test.”
Officer 2: “OK good.”
Officer 1: “I know, he’s going to have to go get tested.”
The official report for the incident lists fatigue as a contributing factor to the crash.
The boxes for drug and alcohol testing were left blank.
you can let him go!!!
In Fishing, we call it catch and release…
But sometimes before you can set the hook they will throw the hook and run on you!!!
