Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving

HughPickens.com writes: Christine Hauser writes in the NY Times that police in Lakeland, Florida say 911 dispatchers started receiving calls Saturday from viewers who were watching a woman broadcasting herself while apparently driving drunk, using the live-streaming app Periscope. Despite the tip being generated in the virtual world, it took some traditional police sleuthing to find the woman and, ultimately, arrest and charge her. The woman first invited her viewers to follow her as she went bar-hopping in downtown Lakeland. During the live stream, Beall repeatedly said that she was drunk and appeared to be asking viewers for directions. She noticed that there were at least 57 people watching and asked, "So where am I right now, people?" One 911 caller said Beall was driving a Toyota in the north Lakeland area. "I just saw a girl on Periscope driving drunk. She doesn't know where she is and she's driving really fast," said the caller. As officers pulled Beall over, her 2015 Toyota Corolla, which already had a flat right front tire, rammed into a curb. Beall failed the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and she refused the breathalyzer test.

Comments

Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions

[Anonymous Coward]

>there are no lame ass whiny entitled excuses or explanations that apply. don't drive drunk, no exceptions

Actually, there are. Those with diabetes can show a false BAC. It was once ridiculous to assume they might fail a breathalyzer, being the BAC would be rather low. However, with today's temperance movement in full effect, where under than 1 drink can render someone legally drunk (even if there are no proven effects at that level) it is now theoretically possible for a teetotaler to fail a brethalyzer based on bad genes alone.

Also, to all those that would throw away everyone's liberties in the search of a small modicum of safety: fuck you.

We need to ban Alcohol

[Archangel Michael]

And cars.

Because we always blame inanimate objects for the actions of their users.

Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions

[circletimessquare]

if you're drunk your judgment is impaired you dumb fuck. including your ability to gauge how impaired you actually are

you don't drive after drinking. ever. quibbling about what actually constitutes being drunk is an immature douchebag attempting to avoid responsibility

frankly, the really only valid response to the attitude and character you expose in your comment is for you to go choke on your mother's cock. you are the problem in this world, to be so cavalier with responsibilities that can easily result in the death of others

in fact, you are the reason the nanny state exists

it exists not because cartoon notions of statist authoritarians who want to take your freedoms away just for shits and giggles exists. but because some people with your attitude are so obviously irresponsible, with your weak self-serving rationalizations, that you *need* a nanny. you really do. you're an immature irresponsible piece of shit. that's what your comment reveals about your character