Hold on to your butts.
  
Last weekend I went to a local Christmas Festival with family that I hadn't seen in a long time. We were there for the food and fireworks from Noon until about 8pm and afterwards went back home.

Because we felt we left early, we started a good fire in the burn pit and called over some friends from the festival. Immediately I knew something was off.

The couple shows up, they've been married for 10 years, and the guy who has been drinking since noon, now has a bottle of Vodka and is drinking it straight. No one else is drinking like this as we're all just having simple mix drinks like crown and coke. 

The guy is 30yo, maybe 6ft and an easy 245lbs and he is going at that bottle. At one point he went to piss and his wife actually poured a little out of the bottle. I later asked for some, just to empty the bottle a bit, but it was no use.

He gets to the point that he stands up to walk into the house, loses balance and falls, barely stopping himself from face-planting.  I see it as it happens and try to get to him. Well he doesn't get back up, he didn't hit his head, but obviously he was only barely conscious prior to falling because of the alcohol, and the fall was the breaking point.

So we carry him inside and lay him on a bed. We didn't just leave him, but stayed there and made sure he didn't roll off the bed, made sure he was on his side in case he puked, waited until he did,  but he wouldn't stop rolling around, so we put him on the floor and he fell asleep. 

At this point, it's 1am and everyone is tired so we go to sleep. Well an hour later his wife wakes me up and says she needs help. I ask why and she responds, "He shit himself."

It was at this point I noped the fuck out and called 911 because that was above my pay grade. His wife was mad because now they have to pay an ambulance bill and for everything for the hospital. Her argument is that it should have been her decision, since she is his wife.

My argument is that at that point, he was spitting dry, had shit himself, was still not coherent, and I wanted to sleep. I recognized he needed fluids and professional help. I've had *some* first aid training, and I've taken care of people who were black out drunk before, but I was not prepared for this.

So, should I have let the wife decide when to call 911, or was I right to make a judgement call that he needed professional help. Alcohol poisoning is serious and I didn't want to risk it.

Tldr: Man gets so drunk he shits himself, wife is mad I called 911 against her wishes.

Bonus content: While at the hospital he started saying another girls name and saying he loved the other girl while still drunk as a skunk.