Laura Ingraham Erin Brockovich, crusader against factory pollution, was arrested over wkend for boating while polluted.
Posted on 06/09/2013 7:35:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday.
Brockovich was arrested late Friday night after breath tests showed her blood-alcohol level was just over twice the legal limit of .08, said Edwin Lyngar, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
A game warden noticed she was struggling and needed assistance while trying to moor her motor boat at the Las Vegas Boat Harbor, he said. Brockovich had been out on the boat with a male companion but was alone when she tried to dock it.
"She was not sure how to maneuver the boat into the dock," Lyngar told The Associated Press. "It's a simple thing if you can think clearly. But if you add alcohol and unfamiliarity of the area, it can all cause serious problems."
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Doesn’t boating pollute the water?
hey now.. sheen haPPens
Need pics in order to determine guilt or innocence.
People still boat sober? Who knew?
I thought she was 52 when the movie came out....lol. It is ridiculous to get a DUI for boating. We are clearly in such a nanny state that even FREEPERS will be applauding her arrest. American is dead of freedom.
They can’t arrest our Saints!
No more so than for driving a car. A remarkable number of deaths and injuries occur every year because of people trying to drive a boat while tanked up.
Definitely not ticketed for lack of flotation devices!
“Doesn’t boating pollute the water?”
Never applies to the activist doing the lecturing.
Her fifteen minutes of fame was over when Oingo Biongo was still cool.
Erin Brockovich, crusader against factory pollution, was arrested over wkend for boating while polluted.
In Mississippi the engine HP must be over 10hp to get a BWI...I painted mine 9HP...
i could not dock my own boat without help, that’s why hubby is always sober.
Wait....when did Oingo Boingo stop being cool?
No one ever tells me anything.
“I thought she was 52 when the movie came out....lol. It is ridiculous to get a DUI for boating. We are clearly in such a nanny state that even FREEPERS will be applauding her arrest. American is dead of freedom.”
You obviously haven’t been around DRUNK boaters. They are just as dangerous as DRUNK drivers only on water. Boats these days are as fast as cars.
Two guys around here boating a couple weeks ago were going so fast (and they were drunk) hit an object in the water, flipped the boat and decapitated one of them.
” Brockovich had been out on the boat with a male companion but was alone when she tried to dock it.”
so uhh... what happened to the guy?
In case you haven’t noticed, the 80s are hip now (in a retro sense):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPGQX9rU1s
Exactly. You are standing on a boat, someone sideswipes you and knocks in the water, then drives over you.
It has happened before and more than once.
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