DUI suspect drinks beer as arresting cop finishes paperwork

The 68-year-old man refused to perform any field sobriety test for the cop. Instead, he enjoyed his cold one while being detained. (Bradenton Herald)

Comments

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

Maybe he was just confused. He saw all those flashing lights and thought he was still at the club.

[MidtownCoog]

looking otay for 68

[sometimesilie]

In for a penny, in for a pound...

[Phranqlin]

Typical F-stater.

[IronOre]

If you're going to get busted for a DUI anyway, might as well finish your beer.

[buddy]

that is the smartest thing you can do after a dui, if you are looking to not get in trouble. it would be more difficult to prove that you were drunk at the time of the crash as opposed to being drunk after the fact.

[johnjohn]

So many things wrong here, I do not know where to begin.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

buddy- From experience I can tell you that doesn't work. I got an OWI years ago because I was in an accident and when the police responded 3 hours later I had since consumed alcohol. By the time the courts had taken my license and rescheduled my many required appearances I was unable to make it to and from the courthouse in another town. Changing my plea was the only way to avoid extra jail time for missing unecessary court appearances. This is a big reason why I am against OWI laws, they are traps that fail. Breathalyzers in ALL cars!
It's hard to sleep in jail, the beer helps.

[johnjohn]

I dunno, here is a thought, just do not drink and drive?

[Reno]

johnjohn, that's too easy and requires an alcohol addled mind to employ logic.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

johnjohn- You oversimplify, lets examine the facts.

1) Alcohol is one of the main reasons humans formed civilizations. It is inextricably tied to our humanity and our social functions. This will not and should not end.

2) Alcohol causes you to make bad choices that while otherwise sober you would not make.

3) Automobile culture has caused our towns and cities to enact zoning laws that decentralize our social actvities from our homes.

4) Public transport is either completely non-existent or limited to small areas and times.

5) Drinking and driving is stupid, but quite fun. (used to love when I lived on a farm and could owi all around the farm)

For these reasons and many more I am sure I missed the reductively oversimplistic 'just don't do it' is not a solution viable with human nature.

[phd]

what a load of CRAP emperor......typical irresponsible stupid teenage thinking. Bottom line is, the kind of people that drink and drive don't give a rats ass about anyone but themselves, drunk or not. Take a responsible person, the kind of person that cares about others when they are sober....get them drunk, and they STILL won't drive when they know they're drunk. I fail to believe that I am a rare breed....a person that knows, even when drunk, right from wrong. This bullsh*t "being drunk impaired my ability to think straight" excuse should double the penalty for any idiot that speaks it. Even at my most drunk in the past I still was aware that I was drunk, was aware that there was no way I should be driving, and never have. Now take your self-centered idiot full of excuses for everything he/she does when drunk and they are the type that have lots of excuses for every irresponsible thing they do in life when sober. EVERY SINGLE drunk driver started out sober...that means they CHOSE to drink even when they knew they would be driving drunk as a result.....it's like some sober idiot that jumps off a 4-story balcony saying they had no idea that they might break something or die if they did it, so they aren't responsible for jumping and getting hurt, but they sure did enjoy the free-fall til that unfortunate ending.

How pathetic that you choose to blame "society, automobiles, and public transportation" for your idiotic behavior.....you have the intelligence level of a 14 year old. Seems you just troll around baiting people with "logic" that is completely moronic in an attempt to drum up posts....there's no way anyone can be as stupid as your posts make you look...for that, congrats, I took the bait.

[thomas]

EMP;
While I somewhat agree that our human and individual natures do not change that much over time, one cannot rule out adjusted or learned behaviors as a coping skill for a myriad of scenarios.
Used to love my Sunday Service ride along the upper CT River with a cold six pack at no more than 10MPH.
My first and ONLY traffic violation ever was a DUI in 1985 at a very rough spot in my life.
I have never placed myself in that position again.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

phd- Understanding human nature is one of the best ways to prevent tragedy. Socially we are products of both our choices and our environment. Using these lessons we can do damage control. By insisting on games of hatred and fingerpointing we fail our own species.

Will somebody please give phd some love so he/she/it can move beyond the pit of despair and hatred the he/she/it keeps screaming he/she/its nasty hateful unhelpful rhtoric from? Please, ill pay.

This is my goal today, to raise enough money to buy phd a hooker so that during the act of anallingus perhaps the stick wiull be found and removed. Contributors?

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

Lets try this folks- You scream yourselves blue with personally responsibility rhetoric and in my state we will try having a plan B. We can compare results later. K? K.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

Cognitive psychology folks. Quit expecting people to act the way you think they should act and use how science shows us we actually do act to make better plans where our lives are concerned. What part about alcohol impairs your ability to make good decisions doesnt everyone understand?

[mybrainhurts]

I'm not going to intrude on the Emp-phd love-fest, but I will share my own thoughts on Emp's insights. Or, rather, translation of those insights. *ahem*

1) People banded together because of drink.

2) Drink causes you to think poorly. See #1 as an example.

3) Cars moved bathtub gin far away from bathtubs. See #2.

4) Public transportation is full of suckage. This is likely because society is full of people who got together because of drink (see #1), can no longer use their brains properly (see #2), and are too busy using the available transport to either move bathtubs full of gin far from said tub homes or move themselves closer to said gin (see #3).

5) Drink + car = fail (see #2) and, apparently for some, drink + car = whee (see #2).

I think it's this last point, particularly the whee part, that's the kicker. Train the masses to understand that rolling around in sloshing, wheeled bathtubs full of gin is Bad. Hell, even pigeons can be trained to avoid the Bad Key Full Of Bad in favor of the Good Key Full Of Good.

It will be herding the masses into all those tiny, bird-poop-befouled cages for training sessions that will be the problem.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

Okay, time to take a week off. Byez...

[305club]

Emp,

I like #3
Automobile culture has caused our towns and cities to enact zoning laws that decentralize our social actvities from our homes.

That is certainly a common case in the states.

Sorry about that stick phd

[jj2]

I call bullshit. Some humans also like to get guns and shoot stuff, but people can learn to control said "bang-bang sticks." When they can't, we put them in jail. Do they argue that the adrenaline made them act irresponsible? They might try, but sensible people would say "Yeah, but you're an adult who made bad decisions, you lose."
Same with drinking and driving. Drunk drivers kill innocent bystanders. If you're on your own farm or private road, have a swell time. Otherwise, you can go to jail as the wanna-be killer you are. And the zoning laws are no excuse. If you can't drink at home, then find a joint to live in near your watering hole. Choose your priorities.

[Lambiepie]

where did all those mothers against drunk drivers get to?

[Saxo Grammaticus]

"He said he typically drinks a six pack per day..."

Right. I don't think you get to a .20 by making a six pack last all day. Nor do I think you've just had 3 or 4 if you sit there drinking why they process your arrest.

jj2: Here in Maine, you can get busted for driving drunk on the back 40. The law says operating or ATTEMPTING to operate within the State of Maine. You don't have to be on a public road. In practice, this means is that if you pass out trying to get the key in the switch while your car sits in your own garage, you could still be prosecuted (if, for example, an angry spouse call the cops on you after you stomped/staggered angrily out of the house).

[jj2]

Saxo, it's possible that it's illegal here in Texas also, but typically the cops are too busy to worry about policing private property. (Unless you're growing mj on it. Then, they'll stick their noses in.)

[Phranqlin]

Just take turns being the designated driver. Works for us.

[Krash]

The ONLY time I got in legal trouble as an adult was drink-related. The only time I ever rolled an off-road RV, I was drinking. I did NOT make rational decisions and IT IS MY FAULT, EmpNort. Not the fault of the infrastructure, not the alcohol's manufacturer or the bartenders, MY fault!!!
There are people who can drink half a beer and walk away, not thinking twice about it. NOT me and I sincerely doubt it would be this guy either.
He's an AA candidate and NO sense denying it.
He's proved it to me with 2 DUIs in 2 years. That is NOT normal or rational behavior.

[Krash]

I do agree with EmpNort, that if it is such a big deal that we can get thrown in jail and lose so much money over it, we should mandate Breathilyzers in all vehicles.

If I'm going to live in Denial, do something truly helpful
for me...I don't use the seatbelts, but a "Blackbox" based insurance rate and a breathilyzer BEFORE the fact makes too much sense...what the hell is one more gadget in the car going to hurt?!

[tj...]

I tried living in denial, people were too messed up. Had to move back home

[Farmer Bob and the City]

Just doing his part to drink 8 glasses of beverage per day, which is more than I can say. Sterilization is still recommended.

[phd]

funny how talking truth...people that drive drunk are losers (whether it be their natural behavior or the result of some unfortunate incident in their lives, they are irresponsible losers) gets people to think you "have a stick up your butt"....yeah, because it is so "uncool" to state the drunk drivers are losers. The "cool" thing to do is come up with some bullsh(t psychological babble about why people do it. As far as that hooker emp....your wife would get kinda jealous, so no thanks.