The attempt to influence the Georgia state trooper bordered on pathetic.The officer said that when he was pulled over, Evans, apparently still in the grip of whatever he had imbibed, was smiling and jocular.
The lasted until it was clear he would be arrested. At which point Evans said, "I am not trying to bribe you but I'm the athletic director of the University of Georgia.”
Evans asked to be let off with a warning, only to be told the trooper didn’t issue warnings for DUI.
Evans tried the influence card again: "I don't want to use who I am but I would just ask that you take me to a motel."
Now, I said Evans' attempt to get out of his predicament was borderline pathetic. The attempt by his 28-year-old … companion … to "help" him was all-the-way-drunken pathetic.
According to the cop, Courtney Fuhrmann was being "very loud and obnoxious and was obviously intoxicated." The police report said she repeatedly got out of the car, ignoring the trooper's instructions, leading to her arrest on a disorderly conduct charge.
The best — best as in most pathetic — line of the encounter was Fuhrmann’s:
"Just to let you know, (Evans’ arrest) will be erased because he is the athletic director of UGA and he has that power.”
I guess he doesn’t.
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