> It looks like he ... was impaired. That was alleged by Bird and the city, but there appears to be no proof of it. Specifically it says > lawyers for the ci

> It looks like he ... was impaired. That was alleged by Bird and the city, but there appears to be no proof of it. Specifically it says > lawyers for the city argued ... that he had consumed a “large amount of cognac” the night before Sounds like he was drinking the night before the accident, and the city tossed out an evidence-free allegation that he might still have been drunk the following day on his way to a job interview with no evidence at all, in the hopes that some people wouldn't pay close attention to the details... Also, people don't usually go to job interviews drunk.