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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.
you're giving legal advice to people who drive drunk
1. they obviously aren't the best decision makers, even before drinking, so you might as well be giving advice to farm animals on taking a calculus test
2. to all drunk driving irresponsible assholes: fuck you. the legal in and outs of the exact procedure to establish your level of inebriation is secondary. the primary topic is the police should do whatever they need to to take away your driving privileges, as they should be taken away. oh you need to drive to your job? you drove drunk you stupid asshole, you have proven to society you don't deserve to drive. take the bus you irresponsible douchebag
i know: how about don't drive drunk?
there are no lame ass whiny entitled excuses or explanations that apply. don't drive drunk, no exceptions
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
With the alcohol laws SO drastic today..the BAC level is now a low 0.08 in most states, as a grown man just having a couple glasses of wine with a meal out can get your dangerously close to the legal level,
True
when in reality you are just fine to drive.
False
The objective data is way against you. You might be OK to drive, you're probably moderately impaired. Now, you can argue that being tired, taking benadryl, being distracted or texting / whatever is just as bad and you are correct. But two wrongs don't make a right.
Society is trying to tell you that alcohol and automobiles are not a good mix. If you want two glasses of wine at dinner, fine. Either don't drive or wait several hours for the alcohol to clear off. Yes, it might change your lifestyle. Sorry. So did seatbelts.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Or you could just skip the fucking wine if you're going to be driving.
Is sobriety that much of a burden for just one night?