{"id":1001,"date":"2006-04-24T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/diplomatic_immunity_from_the_breathalyzer.html"},"modified":"2006-04-24T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T18:15:28","slug":"diplomatic_immu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/diplomatic_immu.html","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Immunity . . . From The Breathalyzer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only do diplomats get out of parking tickets but they avoid DWI arrests as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Russian diplomat who was allegedly stumbling drunk struck and injured a city cop after driving his car up a sidewalk while dodging a construction barrier — and there’s not a thing police can do to him.<\/p>\n

The attach\u00c3\u00a9 from Russia’s U.N. mission was set free as a bird less than three hours after the incident and not charged because of he has diplomatic immunity, police said.<\/p>\n

The banged up cop, however, was hospitalized at Cornell Medical Center with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

“If it was anybody else, they would have been locked up and charged with DWI,” said one NYPD officer who asked not to be named. “Just because you work for the U.N. you get off? It’s crap.”<\/p>\n

Police did not officially name the alleged drunken diplo, but sources identified him as Ilyasergeyeeich Morozov, 28.<\/p>\n

According to cops, at about 9 p.m. the Russian attach\u00c3\u00a9 was driving on 108th Street toward the southbound entrance to FDR Drive, a stretch of which was closed down to accommodate construction yesterday.<\/p>\n

The diplomat, however, swerved around the traffic cones on the ramp, and up onto a sidewalk, where the hapless officer was run down, hurting his knee.<\/p>\n

He was brought to Cornell in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Sources said it was apparent Morozov was extremely intoxicated, although he could not be given a Breathalyzer test to confirm inebriation because of his diplomatic status.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only do diplomats get out of parking tickets but they avoid DWI arrests as well: A Russian diplomat who was allegedly stumbling drunk struck and injured a city cop after driving his car up a sidewalk while dodging a construction barrier — and there’s not a thing police can do to him. The attach\u00c3\u00a9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}