# Ever wonder what happened to the screaming, blood spitting Florida doctor carrying $58,000 in cash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767 "2012-06-30T02:26:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/1 "2012-06-30T02:26:09Z")
Original [story here](http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/05/zachary_bird_dui_report.php) > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/2 "2012-06-30T04:23:13Z")
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?? ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/3 "2012-06-30T14:08:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/4 "2012-06-30T16:02:24Z")
That behavior is consistent with good old’ fashioned etoh, IME. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/5 "2012-06-30T16:12:15Z")
> [@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!). ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/6 "2012-06-30T16:37:34Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/7 "2012-06-30T17:19:09Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Original [story here](http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/05/zachary_bird_dui_report.php) > > Oops! Looks like they suspected his hospital privileges. Those meanies. I would suspect his hospital privileges had something to do with it as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/8 "2012-06-30T18:03:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/9 "2012-06-30T18:16:56Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/10 "2012-07-04T04:11:32Z")
Wow. That guy is seriously messed up. Glad they nabbed him before he killed anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/11 "2012-07-04T05:30:16Z")
You don’t get considered strange in Florida until you start eating people’s faces off. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/12 "2012-07-04T08:07:30Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/13 "2012-07-04T16:49:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wonder-what-happened-to-the-screaming-blood-spitting-florida-doctor-carrying-58-000-in-cash/626767/14 "2012-07-04T16:57:52Z")
> [@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.