I live in a urbanized village attached to Wiesbaden. The best description? After 10 PM, the town is 99-percent dead. We have only two pubs in town. One closes at 11 PM (even on Fridays)...the other is a youth hangout (for folks under 30) and they close at 1 AM.
Police patrols? Well....the Wiesbaden city police will do an occasional patrol...probably a 20-minute ride around 20 km's of streets in the village....usually once or twice a day. In 99-percent of these drive-arounds....there's not much to report.
Last night? Well...there's some serious crap going on.
What the cops say....around 11:45 last night....some older guy (age 73) was stumbling his way back from the bar that closed at 11 PM. I should note.....no car, bike or horse was involved....he was just walking back.
The police van pulled up and they asked if he had issues.
The guy (obviously drunk) responded some manner, and the cops responded back....they wanted to do a 'control'.
'Control' means they want you to present your ID and possibly allow a body search (knives, etc).
Well....the 73-year old guy said something in German....to the effect 'hell no'.
The cops counter-responded to that, and then the old guy followed with an insult of some type. We aren't told the insult, but usually.....anything said to a policeman....gets you into trouble.
So as they approached him....he threw a punch. At that point, he was screwed.
He ended up detained, alcohol-tested, and will likely get some type of charge. A fine is minimum....he might even get a week or two in jail.
The sad thing? He was just quietly stumbling back home. The cops should have just driven by, and never stopped to say a word. All of this....launched into a bigger mess, which wasn't really necessary.
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