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Ray's DUI-Adjacent Encounter With Federal Agents

from Angry Gay Santa · #24

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4 min

Ray recounts falling asleep driving home from Island Park and rear-ending a black car carrying two federal officers heading to the airport, and how their rush to catch a flight let him off the hook.

In this bit9 moments
  • 1:41Ray woke up nodding off while driving two blocks from home in Island Park.
  • 2:30Tim asks if Ray caught himself before passing out; Ray clarifies he wasn't drunk, just tired.
  • 2:50Ray head-on collided with a black town car carrying two federal officers on their way to the airport.
  • 3:04One of the federal agents yelled "stay in the car" immediately after the crash.
  • 3:34Tim wonders if the collision worked out better for Ray because the federal agents didn't want to deal with it and left to catch their flight.
  • 4:07Ray tells Tim the cops gave him a sobriety test at the scene.
  • 4:34Tim argues Ray sounds like a disgraced businessman, not a doctor or professor.
  • 4:47A local cop who pulled Ray over knew his mother-in-law worked there, so he knew the situation.
  • 5:03Tim shifts to saying it's the holidays and politics shouldn't be brought up over Christmas.
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