Best Way to Stick APD With the Tab
Get Wasted at Their Training Academy's Field Sobriety Tests
That's right: The Austin Police Department provides the liquor; you provide the liver. The APD Training Academy conducts three seminars a year to train cadets in the "intricacies" of field sobriety test administration. To accomplish this, a pool of willing guinea pigs skilled in the fine art of tippling is required. And all of this consumption is monitored under the watchful eyes of ... well an entirely different kind of "pig" altogether (and we mean that in the most affectionate sense). After all, the hooch comes courtesy of the girls and boys in blue. So what is the Po-Po's target population? UT students, of course. (Obviously, they've never been to a Chronicle party ... ) Hey, it's all good: The cops get their training, and willing subjects get to challenge the dreaded field sobriety test. Volunteers must be 21 and have a designated driver present.