Posted on 07/21/2011 1:18:37 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
CARLISLE, Pa. -- Police say a central Pennsylvania woman is facing DUI charges for piloting her motorized wheelchair with a blood-alcohol level at least twice the legal limit for drivers.
The Carlisle Sentinel reports Middlesex Township police arrested 63-year-old Connie Lebo early Wednesday morning after responding to a report about a woman crawling through a yard.
Police say Lebo told officers she'd twice crashed her wheelchair, flipping it the second time.
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Whatever it takes to shake you down for more money. The police are no longer there to protect the community. They have no connection to the community. They serve the government.
Let me guess, a safety hazard to others?
If she refuses to pay, then they suspend her license, will they try to get for driving without a license?
IMHO, the police had to do something. They get a call for a 60+ year old dragging herself through a yard after flipping her chair. If they simply left, she could have drug herself into traffic. Then people would have been outraged that they did nothing. I think it was a tricky position for a cop to be in.
I could see some sort of public intoxication charge, and putting her in the drunk tank until she sobered up. But, doesn’t the D in DUI stand for “driving”? How was this woman “driving”?
Does one need a driver’s license to operate a motorized wheelchair? Are children in motorized wheelchairs licensed drivers?
Good thing she was already in a... Oh, nevermind.
When the hell are people going to wake up and punch in the mouth the next moron that says 'there oughta be a law'? This is as nuts as an honor student getting expelled from school because they have a butter knife in their car, which violated some ridiculous 'zero-tolerance' policy.
Could it really be that someone in a motorized wheelchair poses a safety threat to anyone but themselves if they'd drank themselves 3 sheets to the wind and went tooling around? Or is it just another revenue-enhancement opportunity for local law enforcement? Inquiring minds want to know ...
Actually, in Maryland.. you can be arrested for DWI if you are drunk and pushing a child in a stroller. Interesting, huh? (just for clarification, I read of that law. I have not personally ever done that).
Perhaps. But charging her with DUI, which in many people's minds is worse than murder, when she wasn't driving a vehicle which required licensing? Really?
Frankly, once she wins this case, I hope she turns around and sues the local PD for false imprisonment.
And in Georgia you can be charged and convicted for using a riding lawn mower in your back yard with a BAC over .08.
The charge is DUI and you lose your driver’s license and get some jail time to boot.
“My power chair didn’t cost me one red cent.”
Steve's Drunk and High DUI at Work (Arrested on Scissor Lift)
I know cops can be overbearing but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt here. As others said, if you have a drunk, crippled old woman crawling around in traffic, what are you supposed to do? She flipped the chair twice. She may be a town drunk and the police had to do something to get her off the street.
The charge is DUI and you lose your driver’s license and get some jail time to boot.
Un-frickin believable. Seig Heil!
My feelings exactly.
'Public drunkeness'? Maybe.
'Disorderly conduct'? Perhaps.
'DUI'? No f'in way.
Maybe the Tea Party can add repealing some of these ridiculous and downright totalitarian nanny-state laws part of their platform.
I agree. If she had sashayed out into traffic on her freebie scooter and been killed by a motorist - the police would have been accused of negligence. If she had just wrecked her scooter - Medicare would have paid for another one;(
p.s. There is a cadre of cop critics on FR; who believe the police are willing pawns of the Gubmint...a very unsettling trend.
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