Police: Suspected Drunk Driver Opens Beer In Front Of Officers

CBS MINNESOTA ^ | 17 AUGUST 2017 | AP

[Right-wing Librarian]

I think it goes something like this:

Starkle, Starkle, Little Twink.
Who the heck you are you think.
I’m not under the alcaflence of inkahol,
like some thinkle peep I am.

But the dronger I sit here, the lunker I get.

[Ouderkirk]

Hey, I admire her integrity.

Cracking open a cold one, while “the man” is on you. That takes balls.

[Right-wing Librarian]

oops, its:

I’m not under the alcaflence of inklehol,
like some thinkle peep I ARE.

[Ouderkirk]

The letter of the law in most states, keys inside the car, keys in pocket or ignition shows intent.

If he was out of the car with the door closed, on the ground. He;s not driving.

Unless you have video footage of him driving erratically, and then falling out of the car, your verbal testimony is not enough.

[Clay Moore]

A guy I used to hunt with got arrested for DUI and was taken to jail. He calls daddy, the State Judge. He claims there is no record that it ever happened. All of the documentation just evaporated into thin air.

This all occurred after they cracked down on DUI’s.

[PeteyBoy]

I thought it was:

Starkle, starkle little tink,
Where the hell you are, I think
Tee martoonies make a guy
Fool so feelish, don’t know why

Take me drunk, I’m home.

[Right-wing Librarian]

: ) I haven’t heard that one, LOL.

Not about alcohol, but have you heard this one?

One dark morning in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other.

The deaf policeman heard their noise,
and ran to save those two dead boys.
If you don’t believe this lie is true,
Go ask the blind man, he saw it, too!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Tic Tac, sir?

[Albion Wilde]

[Talisker]

I know a judge that left the scene of an accident he caused, drove home and was found with an almost empty glass of wine when the officers arrived. He knew the consequences for leaving the scene were less than a dui.

I've got a really great judge/DUI story you reminded me of. I was driving down the freeway, clear sunny day, light traffic, middle lane. All of a sudden a big late model Mercedes sedan comes screaming up in the fast lane doing maybe 90. After passing me, but just before an overpass, the Mercedes driver decides he wants to take the exit. So he screams across all four lanes, without dropping his speed, and angles for the exit.

He misses the exit.

As I drive by at 60, watching in amazement, he hits a whole line of those plastic garbage cans that are filled with impact absorbing material, that they sometimes put in front of lane separators. I knew what they were, but never saw them in action. Well... LOL... they go off like a volcano, one after the other as he hits them without braking - no brake lights, I saw it myself. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, with this dry grey stuff exploding out of the top of them, their plastic lids flying into the air.

I figured he was dead. HAD to be dead, hitting those things at that speed. So I went to the next exit and called the Highway Patrol and reported the event (this was pre-cellphones). Curious, I continued down the freeway turned around and drove back to see the mess.

No car.

Crap all over the freeway, empty barrels rolling around, but no car, no blood, no guts, nothing. I was totally mystified. So when I got home, I called the Highway Patrol again, and told them what I saw. The officer on the other end told me that the guy drove away and tried to hide, because he was a judge and didn't want to get busted for drunk driving. He wouldn't tell me the name of the judge though. He said that people saw him back up and drive up the offramp, and got his plates, and the cops caught him sneaking into his driveway when he went home.

I told him there's no way anyone could survive the impact, or that the car would be driveable, but he said the airbag went off and saved his life, and the front end, while damaged, was protected by all the exploding impact barriers.

It was incredible.

[Ex-Pat in Mex]

Key in the ignition is the rule in most states. Just being in the car, it could be a spare, negating intent. If in your pocket, you could have grabbed them by mistake instead of your house keys. Beyond a reasonable doubt cannot be established without the keys in the ignition proving intent. (A mistake a lot of folks do is pulling over to sleep it off and leave the keys in the ignition to listen to the radio, Busted!, even with no intent to drive.

Drinking after getting pulled over has beaten many DUI charges but it is usually with liquor, not beer. It is difficult to extrapolate blood alcohol content before the perp gets stopped if the perp is drinking liquor after and alleges he/she had none or only beer before. “I was nervous and scared. Police scare me, so I opened the bottle and started chugging to calm my nerves.”

When they have to bring in crisis counselors because someone wrote “Trump 2016” in chalk, everything is predicated on emotional immaturity and ineptitude.