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 ...
“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.
