A Petersburg, Virginia firefighter put in an admirable effort at getting away with sideswiping a parked car with a ladder truck during a training exercise after drinking 18 cans or bottles of an unspecified beer with 8 percent alcohol, passing most field sobriety tests from a responding cop, but ultimately it was the breathalyzer that did 34 year-old Aaron Hinspater in, the Progress-Index reports.
Hinspater was able to do the one-legged standing and a walk-and-turn after last week’s incident, but the “jerky eye movement” part was suspect. Then Hinspater also blew a 0.145 in two tests 20 minutes apart, so that kind of made it open and shut. “Hinspater then said he had consumed 18 beers that were at an 8 percent alcohol count,” the responding officer wrote in the report. The now-suspended-without-pay firefighter will be arraigned Friday morning in Petersburg General District Court on one count of first-offense driving while intoxicated, a Class 1 misdemeanor.