• Varyk
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    a half dozen participants were so drunk that they couldn’t even participate in the training scenarios.

    as for the chief of police;

    "No one will ever look at Chief Eynon the same. He did not represent the city of North Ogden in a professional manner.’

    he was reinstated the following month.

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      Actually probably the best training those cops could ever get. People do dumb shit when drunk and are very unprofessional.

      Also why was there no one TIPS certificated administering the drinks. I had to have a TIPS certificated bar tender certificated at my wedding because it was required by the venue

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        because it was required by the venue

        it was probably being done at at the police station or a training facility owned by the police.

        there probably wasn’t a bartender or barback or anyone even remotely close to TIPS certified. the volunteers (which usually aren’t actually aren’t the one’s being trained… For, uh. obvious reasons.) basically crack a bottle of whatever and get drunk so the class can see how it affects them. They’re not supposed to do a fireball challenge, but, eh… when you’re a small-town police department…

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          What is the Fireball Challenge? Is it anything like thunder struck with fireball?

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            Honest answer? It’s how you get a bunch of dumbasses to kill themselves via alcohol intoxication.

            Basically, you get the biggest bottle of fireball cinnamon whisky you can find/afford and drink it as quickly as you can.

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                My roommate was one of those dumbasses.

                It WAS terrible he ended up in the hospital. Not even as a “let’s make sure you’re alright” kind of thing, he got saved there.

                He learned his lesson though so there’s that.

                His “friends” didn’t, but that whole “I was dying and it was your fault and you all were too drunk to help me” kinda ruined the friendship, too, so I don’t have to deal with them anymore, either.

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    I’m a 911 dispatcher, when I was in training part of my class was held at our county’s public safety training facility, where a lot of police, fire, EMS, etc. training is done.

    One day we were there the same day they were running one of these kinds of classes.

    We were in the cafeteria, and noticed a table of people who were being a bit rowdy, not out of control, but definitely louder and more boisterous than you’d normally expect to be in a somewhat lesser-used county government lunch room.

    We noticed they had a case of cheap beer, and found out that they were volunteers for the dui training class. I suspect most of them were off-duty cops, they had that certain look to them, and let’s be real, where else do you hear about that kind of volunteer work? (I’ve looked and can’t find them around, I can find some schedules of when the classes are but nothing on how to volunteer for them)

    I wouldn’t exactly call what they had going on a “party,” but they were definitely having a good time, and I’ve probably taken calls from people complaining about less than what they were doing.

    I could definitely see one of these getting a bit out of hand if the wrong people sign up and whoever’s supposed to be monitoring the volunteers isn’t keeping on top of things.

    I personally think it’s also just kind of a bad look for the chief to be getting drunk around his underlings.

    No real point to this story, just kind of sharing my thoughts.

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      So, my dad was an attorney. Took a case against a PD halfway across the bay, the local PD started pulling the whole firm and our whole family over for nothing every day until we signed up for lessons at the karate dojo run by the police chief (paid bribes). We stopped getting pulled over. I got into the best shape of my life. The chief and half the force who were doing karate to climb the ranks faster sat around drinking bud lite every night after practice and dear gods i hate the smell of it.

      The one plus of it is dad got us to learn how to handle ourselves around the police i guess.

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    Hey, it was an honest mistake. They thought DUI Training actually meant training to drive under the influence. Anyone could make that mistake. Well, after a few shots anyway.

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    Honestly, no innocent person was disappeared or shot. This has been the most positive article about cops I’ve read in a while.

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    You should see what they did to Springfield & North Haverbrook.