Recently, during a routine patrol, an RCMP patrolman parked down the street outside a Legion Hall just off the Main Street at Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada.
After the bar had sounded the last call for drinks, the officer observed a man leaving the Legion Hall. The gentleman was so intoxicated that he could barely walk. He then stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity and trying his key on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car which he fell into.
He sat there a few minutes and then threw a hook and line out the window and seemed to be trying to catch a fish. A number of othere patrons paid no attention to this crazy drunk as they left the bar and drove off.
Finally the drunk started the car, swithched the wipers on and off ( it was a fine, dry summer night) flicked the blinkers on and off a couple times, honked the horn and switched on the headlights.
He then pulled in the hook and line and moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained still for minutes as other patron vehicles left. At last the parking lot was empty; he pulled out of the parking lot and startednto drive slowly down the road.
The officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, and promptly pulled the man over.
He performed a breathalyzer test on the gentleman who cooperated fully, and to his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no eveidence of the man having consumed any alcohol at all!
Dumfounded, the officer said,'I'll have to ask you to accompany
me to headquarters.
This breathalyzer equipment must be broken.'
'I doubt it,' said the now not so drunk man.
'Tonight I'm the designated decoy.'