Logical Drunk, Drunk Driver gives it more thought Options

[trish2]

Hi Guys,
I might be over tired. But I laughed so much at this funny little story. I wanted to show you all..It's just goes to show that sometimes people can really think rationally ,even when very drunk.I know I would NEVER, EVER do this. I fear hand cuffs.LOL


Woman calls 911 to report herself as drunk driver

(AP) – 2 days ago

NEILSVILLE, Wis. — The call came into the 911 dispatcher: "I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm drunk." And with that, Mary Strey, 49, of Granton, reported herself as a drunken driver about three miles northeast of Neilsville in central Wisconsin.

Clark County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Backus said Monday that Strey's call on Oct. 24 led deputies to cite her for misdemeanor drunken driving with a blood-alcohol level double the legal limit to drive. She makes her first court appearance Dec. 10.

Backus said drunken drivers reporting themselves is rare.

In the 911 call, Strey said she wanted to report a drunken driver and the dispatcher asked if she was behind the suspect vehicle. "I am them," Strey said. She then followed the dispatcher's advice to pull over and turn on her flashers, telling him she had been "drinking all night long."

It was unclear if Strey has hired an attorney yet.

This post has been edited by trish2: Nov 5 2009, 12:03 AM

[Coda]

The next morning she was quoted as saying"I did what???"

[Nepenthe]

LOL at Coda's comment! I can seriously see her having some bad misgivings the next day about her good intentions. The only exception is if she's one of those drunks who doesn't usually drink and drive (rare). I will applaud the lady for having noble intentions if not much common sense. At least nobody got hurt.

[trish2]

LOL at Coda's comment! I can seriously see her having some bad misgivings the next day about her good intentions. The only exception is if she's one of those drunks who doesn't usually drink and drive (rare). I will applaud the lady for having noble intentions if not much common sense. At least nobody got hurt.

LOL I know Nep..depending on her position life. How serious a DUI charge would impact her life. I'm sure it impacts everyone's life on some level. But some people worse than others. I don't drink anything like I used to. I mean,I was quite the little lush. But not anymore. That was over 12 yrs ago.. I get bombed from 2 drinks of rum and coke now. But I have driven so drunk ( very ashamed of that) so many times I can't even count. I am so lucky I made it home, didn't kill myself, didn't kill anyone else, and of course didn't get popped for a DUI. I should have. But so thankful I never did. ,,I just would never dream of calling the police on myself.. I would call my husband, a cab, a sibling, a friend ....ANYONE BUT THE COPS!..LOL

[Coda]

19 years ago I received a DUI - prior to most of the huge increases in penalties. I was fined $5000, $4000 of that suspended provided I was good on probation. 365 days in jail, 362 suspended. 1000 hours community service, 900 suspended. Then my insurance (my DUI involved wrecking my Monte Carlo) went from $450 / year to nearly $5000 / year ($1275 / quarter). It remained that high for 18 months, then dropped by over half - but it was still $2200 / year for the following 3.5 years (total of 5 years law required SR-22 bond in order to drive. For that first 18 months, it seemed like I was onl;y going to work in order to pay for the privilege of driving to / from work! Then, about 6-7 months before my required time for an SR-22 expired, I missed an insurance payment, which immediately re-suspended my lisence. Of course, I got pulled over (hadn't been pulled over since the DUI) and was charged with Driving Under Suspension. That's when I found out that DUS is basically identical to a DUI as far as the penalties go. I served 30 days in jail, got another $1000 fine, and that fucking SR-22 requirement was continued for 3 more years!!! They get you stuck in a loop of paying through the nose to drive. Don't get me wrong - I certainly think drunk drivers should be taken off the road, and stiff penalties seem to work in this instance. But - the huge cost of the SR-22 bond had me driving under suspension shortly thereafter. Fortunately I was not caught again.


If I had gone through all that bullshit because I had reported myself driving drunk I likely would have driven off the nearest bridge.

[methboy]

The next morning she was quoted as saying"I did what???"

I can picture that now - but twice the legal limit for driving isn't so drunk really though is it? ( sorry I don't know the U.S. limit - come to think of it I don't know the UK limit...)
What an extreme thing to go & do - If she felt so bad about driving in that condition why didn't she just park the car and call a cab, or walk home, or get a friend to pick her up, etc etc.

[sylant]

LOL!!!

I used to do something similar.

When I was a teen, we used to get bored as fuck sometimes, especially late at night. Some friends and I used to walk to a nearby playground at an apartment complex and call the police on ourselves. We would wait for them to show up, let them see us, and then we would all run away in different directions. And of course, they would ALWAYS chase us, often calling for backup. That was some of the most fun we ever had. Cops must be very determined people, because they never stop chasing, and keep calling for backup. There was one time where we were surrounded in some woods by police cars, and all of them were shining spotlights in on us as we were hidden. We crawled out underneath them through a drainage pipe. lol

What's so funny is how they would go through so much trouble to chase us, and hadn't even committed a crime. Most of the time when we would call 911 on ourselves, we would act like angry neighbors reporting "loud kids" at the playground at 2AM. Ironically, one of the guys that used to do that with us is now a cop in that same jurisdiction. lol

I have no idea how many times we did it, and we never got caught. lol

This post has been edited by sylant: Nov 6 2009, 08:04 AM

[Genshed]

This reminds me - there's a service in Japan (at least in Tokyo), where you can call for a ride home when you've been drinking too much. Apparently, that's an occupational hazard for upwardly mobile 'salarymen' - you go out drinking with your coworkers and boss after work, and before you know it, it's 2300 and you're plastered.

The beauty part is - they send TWO drivers in a car. One drives you home in YOUR car, then they both drive back in THEIR car. That way, you don't wake up the next morning to find your car is across town.

Does anyone else smell franchising possibilities here? Heh.