Posted on 05/27/2008 7:56:48 AM PDT by BGHater
So if the doctor prescribes you vicodin, then CPS should come in and see if your children are okay. Too groggy to care for youngsters, too.
“When I have dental procedures my husband picks me up.”
I would think that most dentists/periodontists/endodontists would insist that some family member or friend would pick up their patient after any kind of surgery. Mine would.
>>This is a tough one. You don’t take pain pills and then try to get somewhere before they kick in. <<
Yeah, I don’t understand this “one hydrocodone is okay” idea. I can’t take a single narcotic pain pill, or even half of one, if I’m more than 10 feet away from my bed. I can’t function at all after taking even the smallest dose (and that’s even aside from all the puking it will have me doing). Driving or even walking around significantly is totally out of the question, I probably couldn’t even get to the car.
Are there people who can actually try to justify driving when taking this stuff? Or am I just more sensitive than the average bear?
Might have been inclined to question the waiter or waitress before calling the police.
To answer your ah...strange question though...I don't need CPS to tell me that I shouldn't let a 4 y/o have free reign of the house while I'm zonked out. Been there. I just hurt until hubby got home.
She was not put under. No need for anyone to pick her up. She just had her jaw and gums numbed.
“How does someone’s blood alcohol get so high on half a mimosa or one glass of wine?”
Another D- for reading comp. The breathalizer read 0.048, but that was artificially high because she’d just used her inhaler (and the cops saw it so they should have known this). Her actual BAC was 0.022 according to the blood test - FAR less then the legal limit of 0.08 (which someone can easily reach with just a few drinks, depending on body weight).
He reported her, he did not convict her...
Maybe. It’s easy to second guess. What if she had been drunk though and people all said “it’s none of my business’ and she went out and had an accident.
It says that on many bottles. So many, in fact, that the warning (like most legalese warnings) is no longer taken seriously.
Do we KNOW (ie have confirmed from somewhere other than this reporter) that the charge was DUI not DWI? Driving While Impaired applies to tired.
Hey, it’s just one more step for the next busybody who is watching you eat your lunch. One call to CPS could easily be a disaster for whoever the busybody decides is drunk.
Besides, the busybody let her drive off anyway.
He didn’t call the police until she supposedly ran a stop sign in the parking lot.
Why didn’t he report her earlier and get her keys like he was supposed to?
The story is fishy. If he thought she was very drunk like he claims, he should not have allowed her to get in her car. Or at least made an attempt to keep her from driving off.
They should sue Steven Ceballes the noisy guy that caused all their problems in the first place. I would make him pay all their legal bills if I were on a jury, including the cost to sue him for damages.
Horticulture West II, Inc.
Steven Ceballes
(602) 257-4242
steve@hortwest.com
1)Some dental work includes pins that are inserted into bone.
2)Chemo can affect your teeth and cause bone loss.
3)Certain diseases cause bone loss in the jaw.
4)My grandfather lost all his teeth in a car accident.
5)Some people have really soft teeth and no matter how well you take care of them they have problems. I am one of those. Mr G has really strong teeth and at age 60 has never had a filling. I would kill for one tooth without a filling.
In other words, there are many many many reasons why she could have dental problems, none of which has anything to do with the subject at hand.
Yep, she was charged with having a BAC of over .08
Funny thing though. My husband watched me, couldn't handle it and joined me')
Asking a waiter or a waitress if they were serving her glass after glass of wine would have been a much better route to take, as the restaurant could have intervened if they were serving wine to an intoxicated person and made a decision to stop, call a cab or if there was resistance then call the police. This bystander was playing gotcha, and didn’t seem to be all that concerned about the public welfare. She could have killed someone while he was following her, and calling the police. Stopping any potential problem at the point where she was not in her car would have made much more sense. The problem could have been resolved in a more responsible way. This bystander made his own assumptions without bothering to get the facts. He had time to try to determine the situation while he saw her being served “glass after glass of wine.”
Even 1/2 dosages of the stuff put me out cold. It scared me so bad that I threw the rest of the prescrip away after only taking it for a few days. And I'm a big guy, I wasn't mixing with alcohol (any meds and alcohol is just dumb), and I've usually got a pretty good tolerance for meds. So, no...you're not alone.
As an aside, a coworker admitted to me that she takes Xanax on a daily basis..."Sometimes 2 or 3". I don't get into a car if she's driving.
That’s not what I read in the story. I read it as DUI then the reporter talks about the alcohol level for alcohol DUI. DUI does NOT have to just apply to alcohol, it’s driving under ANY influence. Then there’s DWI which is driving under ANY impairment.
Steven Ceballes needs to man-up and pay her legal fees. If someone is willing to get involved, they need to stay involved regardless of the outcome.
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