Andrew Connor: Darwin Award Recipient

via: Newsday

A Mastic Beach man compounded his problems after he was arrested early Friday on a drunken driving charge: he then tried to bribe the arresting officer, Suffolk police said.

Andrew Connor, 34, of One Maple Place, was pulled over by a Suffolk SAFE-T Section cop on the south Sunrise Highway service road in Patchogue at 2 a.m., police said.

Then, as Officer Robert Mudzinski was driving him to the Fifth Precinct station house, Connor offered the officer money in exchange for dropping the drunken-driving charge, police said.

"He says, 'I got $2,000 to give you to let me go," said Det. Sgt. Daniel Molloy of Suffolk's Fifth Detective Squad.

Mudzinski's one-word response, according to Molloy?

"No."

With that, Connor was slapped with a bribery charge.

Connor, who Molloy said refused to take a chemical test to measure intoxication, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday at First District Court in Central Islip on charges of DWI and third-degree bribery.

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By the way, someone needs to explain to little Andy that SCPD officers do not make a McDonald's salary, like the NYPD officers (I'm kidding NYPD. Please do not shoot me!). They get paid a substantial amount of money to pull over hot chicks leaving Smith Point beach; and ticket people, as they pull out of their driveways, who happen to have expired inspection stickers.