Its Friday night. The street right in front of the complex I am living in was swamped with cops. About 50 patrol cars were parked on both sides of the road. We wondered what happened, no one seemed to know the answer. For a moment I thought something really terrible has happened on campus (the street is also right across the university I study at). The news channels at that time didn’t mention anything, neither did the internet. I waited for a while, nothing popped up. Why the vast numbers of policemen I wondered, I couldn’t find the answer.
I wake up the next day, still wondering about what might explain the events of the previous night. I visit the university’s website, nothing except a purse snatching incident that happened on Wednesday. I log on into the Charlotte Observer’s website (newspaper), and find this:
9 nailed for DWI violations
Authorities arrested nine people for driving while intoxicated during a DWI checkpoint on University Boulevard (N.C. 49), near UNC Charlotte, from 11 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. this morning.Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and Mecklenburg County sheriff’s deputies also cited five people for having open containers of alcohol and 11 for driving while their licenses were revoked. They made two drug-related arrests. — Karen Garloch
Aha! That explains why we were stopped twice in area that stretched a few hundred meters and asked if we had drinks or not. Preparing for the worst? Or going too far? .:.Link.:.
Lol .. ya3ny tafteesh?
omg dude same here, the other day i was walking from uni and they’re were cops all over and they had stopped 3 cars. When i got home my neighbour was like they were arrested for DUI. bas the thing is, there were so many cops!
dont they have better things to do? WHY SO MANY COPS?
though i think its good that they’re keeping an eye open and prepare for the worst!