How Not to Celebrate Getting Your License Back

[michaelinokc]

Police: Woman in DUI arrest was celebrating end of license suspension for prior DUI - U.S. News

An Illinois woman who was arrested early Friday morning for driving under the influence told police she had been drinking to celebrate the fact that she was getting her driver’s license back after a previous DUI arrest, police said.


A police officer in the Chicago suburb of Riverside observed the driver, Erin James, speeding around 2:10 a.m. Friday, a press release from Riverside Police said. After stopping James, the officer suspected she might be under the influence of alcohol.


The 58-year-old driver, a resident of Brookfield, failed multiple field sobriety tests and was taken into custody, police said.


At the Riverside Police Department, James provided a breath sample, which showed an alcohol content of 0.155, nearly double the legal limit of .08, police said.


While being processed on the DUI charge, James told the officer the reason she was drinking was to celebrate the fact that was would be getting her license back from a DUI arrest in 2012, according to police.

"Ms. James purposely drove a car that she did not own to avoid the ignition lock device and was driving back from a Forest Park bar where she was celebrating that fact that she would finally have her driving privileges back after her 2012 conviction for DUI," Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel said in a statement.


"Ms. James is exactly the type of motorist I want kept off the road permanently under a new habitual DUI law that I will be proposing in the very near future."

 

[Sinmastah]

Way too lenient on DUI's here in the states.

 

[Ermghoti]

 

[Lippel_99]

Yeah I truly believe that truly not the way to celebrate. However, I don’t agree that cops are lenient with drunk driving anymore. One of my cousin has been working for a Los Angeles DUI attorney for many years now and have told me multiple times that how laws have become more stringent.

 

[Rocco Crocco]

Yeah I truly believe that truly not the way to celebrate. However, I don’t agree that cops are lenient with drunk driving anymore. One of my cousin has been working for a Los Angeles DUI attorney for many years now and have told me multiple times that how laws have become more stringent.

Farewell sir. It was nice knowing you.

 

[lancpudn]

WoW! Nuts. do drivers over there face stiff insurance premiums after being banned for drink driving! Quite a few of the mainstream car insurers over here wont insure someone who has been banned for DUI, they usually have to go to a specialist insurer to get cover which is exorbitantly expensive.

 

[Fracture]

Farewell sir. It was nice knowing you.

copy that, we do not want you or your kind here

 

[VerbalPuke]

Play stupid games....

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

Celebrate by "dumbing down." Booze is one of the worst "highs" going. I liked it as a "kid", it was fun puking and punching trees;by 27-No thanks. I had a friend who flipped his car the night he got his license. The party was 100 yards away-he had to drive. He punched a cop as the blood ran down his face. Philly is DUMB!