Right now I'm at work. I'll be going out on Patrol, where I will make sure there are no fires, no spilled chemicals, make sure people are wearing their protective gear, and generally helping to keep things safe. But after work, I will take off my security uniform and put on my "other" uniform.

It's a Saturday night and people are winding down with a few drinks. I'll be out making sure that those who have had a few too many won't be getting behind their wheels and driving. A local cab company has been hired by some of the local bars to drive drunks home, but sometimes the offer isn't taken up because people don't want to leave their vehicle behind. I'm volunteering to drive their cars home behind the cab they're riding in.. so they have no excuse.

I'll also be keeping an eye out for those who just don't care and insist on hopping behind the wheel thinking they can just endanger everyone around them because, "they're not drunk, damn it." Yeah. Bullshit. One too many is still TOO MANY. If you're drunk and you drive, you might not survive. Period. And if you're drunk ass doesn't get killed then maybe someone else won't be so lucky. Sorry, not on my watch.

I have a cellphone with the police on speed dial. I have a camera that takes stills and video. I won't let a preventable accident happen if I can stop it. Be grateful I'm not getting all Chuck Norris on your ass.

Just smile and say thank you.

You continue to think of new and innovative ways to help others. Watch out kids, because the future is paved in silver.

Silver Sentinel,

Sounds like a good idea. Let us know how it goes.

The man's an innovator!

Now that's Silver... don't ask.. Yeah, I have drunk drivers here all the time, but nobody cares, except me. We don't have a taxi cab service to drive people home that are drunk, and people spend their Saturday nights wasting their hard earned cash on alcohol. I'm glad I don't drink, smoke or do drugs.

See? This is why I like SS. Hes a good guy with a good heart and good ideas. I would toast you, but then you'd have to drive my car home. Boy, its a good thing that I don't drink.

that is a excellent idea!!

now that's doing something where you just know your saving someone's life.


I'm glad that I quit drinking many years ago. it was seeing the results of somebody else's driving drunk that made me stop.

I was only out for just about two hours. I cut the evening short when I found a young woman puking down by the river and brought her to the ER. I wasn't a relative, so I had to leave her alone at the hospital, but not before I called her parents at her request.

I hope she's alright.

Silver Sentinel,
She'll be fine, after a day or so of having a bad hangover.

Idea Man,
Haha.

good work man!

Kick ass, thats one more person saved from a possible worse fate. Especially if she was alone. Man. You could have saved her life. That is awesome!

When I was in Vegas last year I came across these two women who were falling down drunk. It was like 106 degrees out and one of them had to have been dehydrated cause she kept stopping to vomit and couldn't get it out. Figured she was pretty close to having worse than a hangover, but my daughter was with me, and I don't know the area, so I don't know where the hospital is, add to that being on foot. Meanwhile people were just laughing at them for stumbling around like that.

So I found a security guard in one of the storefronts and asked him to call the police for them and to stop them so they would wait for help. So he called police and requested an ambulance and went to talk with the girls until help arrived.

Course a block later I had a guy come up alongside us and try to sell me some pot in front of the MGM. I told him to leave, he asked me what I would do if he didn't. I sent my daughter ahead to the door and looked the guy in the eyes and said "Much worse things than the police would do to you." And as he started turning away I went to catch up to my daughter at the door of MGM and saw this big security guy at the door and told him the guy was selling pot in front of their place and pointed him out. The security guard smiled a little and said thanks and went to kick him off the property or whatever he does. LOL

That was a fun walk.

Thank you for the kind words, folks. But really, all I did was just help out a few people and look after a young lady. I'm hoping that this gives others ideas on how to help in their own communities. It's not the name of the messenger that's important, but the message.

I was really concerned for her because she could have a) fallen into a half-frozen river at night, b) been the victim of someone who has been slipping homemade roofies into drinks of late, or c) laid down in the snow in her not-so-warm clothes and gotten hypothermia.

I have her parent's number, so I'll do a follow up later.

i knew you was cool the first time i talked to you Silver Sentinel. great work.

I don't know what to say other than, good job SS. Good job.

A job well done. Good work, Silver.

Silver Sentinel,

Any updates on this?

Tothian, yes. Fortunately it was just a case of too much alcohol, drunk too quickly. The blood test showed no signs of drugs. (I had expressed my concerns of roofies to Tothian during a phone conversation.) Our little mis-adventuress has recovered nicely and even baked me a box of brownies, which I will collect tomorrow.

Her mother was very grateful that it was me who found her daughter, as it turns out she and I had dated back in high school. Small town, don't you know.