"IS THERE A PROBLEM, OFFICER?" PART II
In Miami, nobody would have noticed this motorist.
Key Phrase: "A Plentywood woman"
(Thanks to Allan Stricker)
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March 31, 2007
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And her lawyer will get an honorary license to practice in California.
Posted by: Lairbo | March 31, 2007 at 09:54 AM
Politics? Connections? Whatever do you mean?
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 31, 2007 at 10:10 AM
Simply Reason #2,389 to never go to Montana ... unless your vehicle can be used as a means of self-defense ...
*Think: Large ... semi-tractor-trailer, or Abrams Tank preferred ... *
Posted by: O'theU(manity) | March 31, 2007 at 10:35 AM
NO CAUSE FOR THE DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE?
Now this - this confirms my belief in the judicial system. *rolls eyes in sheer disbelief*
Well, I'm just thrilled his wife and children weren't on the road somewhere in that 80 FRIGGIN' MILE STRETCH where they could have been killed or something....
Posted by: Deskdiva | March 31, 2007 at 11:16 AM
C'mon people! The poor woman was misdirected because they installed all the signs facing the wrong way.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 31, 2007 at 11:33 AM
... also wonderin' about the Implied Consent law we've got in Nodak ... thot it wuz perty universal, at least in the USA ... if she refused a B-A or other test in Nodak, the revokageness of her license is AUTOMATIC ... no "cause" needed ...
One error in the "news story" however ... most ambulance/police/fire people are now trained to say ... " ... smelled LIKE alcohol ..." and to NOT say ... " ... a smell OF alcohol ..."
(There are certain instances when the "smell" is apparent, but it is an actual medical condition, and no alcohol is present in the person's system ...)
Merely fer exactly deals like this, where some hotshot, good-buddy lawyer or judge can sneak the potential killer thru a loophole ...
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | March 31, 2007 at 11:48 AM
And her lawyer will get an honorary license to practice in California.
Posted by: Lairbo | 08:54 AM on March 31, 2007
*pfffffft!* In California, she never would have made it 80 miles. Highway Patrol would have put her out of commission way before that.
Sounds like she's going for the 'you didn't prove I was drunk - I coulda been stupid' defense. Why no blood test? Out here, if you refuse the breathalizer, you have to take a blood test.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 31, 2007 at 12:56 PM
That could have ended a lot worse.
Posted by: ScottMGS | March 31, 2007 at 02:24 PM
Hi guys!
Would have been a lot more humorous, if I hadn't awakened to the news this AM with pictures of the result of a crash on the turnpike with a wrong-way driver. Not pleasant.
Posted by: estrogen centrale | March 31, 2007 at 02:32 PM
What e.c. said.
Posted by: ScottMGS | March 31, 2007 at 02:35 PM
And why isn't the governor of Montana pulling ol' David Cybulski off the bench?!?
Posted by: estrogen centrale | March 31, 2007 at 02:40 PM
ec -- there's a not uncommon phrase that might possibly describe one excuse as to why ... tho, not knowin' the nomclatureal structure of Montana lawyer/judge arrangements, I prolly shouldn't repeat it here ...
"Good ol' boy" system is p'haps a more acceptable way of hinting about it ... merely ... rememberin' this is a sorta family-rated blog ...
Posted by: OtheU(manity) | March 31, 2007 at 03:09 PM
If this woman wasn't drunk, she has some serious problems. How could she soberly do this? Of course, if she was drunk and driving, she still has really serious problems.
Posted by: Kristina L. | March 31, 2007 at 06:11 PM
$80 for driving the wrong way on an Interstate, putting dozens of lives in danger???? My son got a speeding ticket for 20 miles over the limit on an empty highway and it cost us $450. And that was after pleading it down to a "no points" offense. I don't plan on driving in Montana any time soon if drunks and other dangerous drivers get off that easy.
Posted by: Braniff77 | April 01, 2007 at 10:16 AM
She was probably coming back from the Scuzzy Disco.
I have made that drive several times myself in a previous life.
It's no big deal, no one lives up there anyway.
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