Ever wonder what happened to the screaming, blood spitting Florida doctor carrying $58,000 in cash?

[astro]

Original story here

If you haven't already heard about the weirdest DUI arrest since the Ron Jon Surf Shop guy got caught drinking Four Loko in his car, a quick run-down: Police say Orange County anesthesiologist Zachary Bird was arrested on DUI charges after he almost side-swiped a cop car and failed sobriety tests. Then, Bird smashed his own face into a partition in the back of the cop car over and over again to force police to take him to the hospital.

Oh, and then he allegedly spit blood on two police officers. They found pills, two loaded handguns, and more than $54,000 in his pockets and car. We've got the pictures, video, and documents to satisfy any nagging curiosity you might still have about this guy

Oops! Looks like they suspected his hospital privileges. Those meanies.

Bird has been suspended at the Orlando-area hospital where he works, according to NBC Miami, and he could face charges of DUI, battery on a police officer, criminal mischief, and resisting arrest.

[Rachellelogram]

Dyamn! That video was hilarious. I wonder what he was hopped up on that allowed him to bash his own face in without feeling any pain. Bath salts??

[Imago]

I doubt it was bath salts. My guess is either more typical street drugs or good ol' fashioned crazy.

Remember, crazy is never in short supply.

[outlierrn]

That behavior is consistent with good old' fashioned etoh, IME.

[USCDiver]

Originally Posted by outlierrn

That behavior is consistent with good old' fashioned etoh, IME.

That plus a doctor who probably thinks he's above the law and that going to the hospital is somehow going to get him out of trouble ('cause that's where his friends are!).

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

Originally Posted by rachelellogram

Dyamn! That video was hilarious. I wonder what he was hopped up on that allowed him to bash his own face in without feeling any pain. Bath salts??

He's an anesthesiologist. Narrative flourish demands he was hopped up on an exotic cocktail of his own creation.

[Canadjun]

Originally Posted by astro

Original story here



Oops! Looks like they suspected his hospital privileges. Those meanies.

I would suspect his hospital privileges had something to do with it as well.

[Boyo Jim]

My first thought was he wanted to get to the hospital where he works in order to destroy some kind of evidence. But having read more, I'm more inclined to, "just fuckin' crazy".

Oh, and the OP link story was from just a month ago. Nothing gets resolved in the legal system in a month unless there's a confession or a very quick plea bargain.

[astro]

Originally Posted by Boyo Jim

My first thought was he wanted to get to the hospital where he works in order to destroy some kind of evidence. But having read more, I'm more inclined to, "just fuckin' crazy".

Oh, and the OP link story was from just a month ago. Nothing gets resolved in the legal system in a month unless there's a confession or a very quick plea bargain.

Well then.. it was obviously the popo's fault for umm.. well something.

[Elendil's Heir]

Wow. That guy is seriously messed up. Glad they nabbed him before he killed anybody.

[Boyo Jim]

You don't get considered strange in Florida until you start eating people's faces off.

[Alessan]

Originally Posted by Left Hand of Dorkness

He's an anesthesiologist. Narrative flourish demands he was hopped up on an exotic cocktail of his own creation.

I understand that that's actually a fairly common problem with anesthesiologists - why use street drugs when you have free access to much better shit?

[gunnergoz]

He is a poster boy for what is wrong with the American system of medical care: it is not about patients, healing and health, it is about making a profit and accruing large quantities of wealth and real estate. Just ask the doctors that run it. When they are not too busy like this one is.

[outlierrn]

Originally Posted by gunnergoz

He is a poster boy for what is wrong with the American system of medical care: it is not about patients, healing and health, it is about making a profit and accruing large quantities of wealth and real estate. Just ask the doctors that run it. When they are not too busy like this one is.

That is sooo not consistent with the docs I work with.