Life-debt!

I had the best off-duty CA of my life today. Oh, and for those non-departmental people, that's "Citizen Assist."

I was riding my bike up Gayley from Westwood, and was at the intersection of Gayley and Kinross by that diner place that serves breakfast all day. So, this guy comes out of the diner -- transient I'm guessing. Scruffy clothes, missing front teeth holding a very large bottle of liquor. I'm assuming he went inside to get a paper bag, because he was proceeding to put the very large handle in the bag. I'm just watching him at this point, and then he sticks his hand down his pants... like where his crotch is.... and starts digging around down there. Then, he pulls out another huge handle of liquor. I think it might have been tequila. I mean -- it was LARGE. These were like Costco size handles. I'm just stunned.

Then the crosswalk turns "whiteman" and he starts crossing the street... kind of. He kind of just decides to swerve a little into the street. No cars are coming at this point because the light just turned green, so I watch him a little bit until he straightens himself out. I decide to stay close because who knows if the crazy/drunk guy is going to accidently kill himself.

Pretty good intuition on my part, because the street got busy and suddenly he's starting to step into the middle of it without even looking for traffic. I'm on my bike just a few feet away so I hurry on over to him and stop him from getting hit by this delivery truck. The truck zooms by and he looks at me and says, "Why hello pretty lady, how you doin' today?" Haha. He wanted me to buy him lunch. yeah. Right. You're asking me for change when you just spent money on two huge handles of liquor? Haha. I watched him to make sure he made it across the street ok, and then well... life is his doing at that point.