Drinking stupidity

Two places where you really ought to know not to drink – at the local firehouse and in the driver’s seat of an ice cream truck. Yet two recent Northern Kentucky cases featured idiots doing both of these things.

Case #1: Assistant Chief Frank Hicks and a buddy were hanging around the Crescent Springs/Villa Hills Fire Station at 2:30 a.m. July 21, quaffing a few brews. They apparently felt uninhibited enough to start playing around on a new $700,000 fire truck they were untrained on. The result, one guy goes to the hospital, Hicks gets fired and the truck suffers $10,000 in damage before it ever gets near a fire. Crescent Springs/Villa Hills reportedly is one of the few fire departments in the area allowing alcohol in the station. Don't be surprised if that changes.

Case #2: A yellow Captain Tom’s ice cream truck gets pulled over in Florence Monday evening because it is being driven erratically. Driver Shelby Dunigan II smelled of booze and failed a field sobriety test. There was a cooler full of empty beer cans on board and a passenger told police Dunigan had been popping them since noon. A really smart thing to do while driving a truck designed to bring children running to the curb.