Friend's DUI

Cuse0507
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:15:54 +0000

I probably should have mentioned she was belligerent beyond words when the cops got there. She refused to do the tests (walking the line and all that), so they took her to the nearest hospital to do a blood test. She refused to do that started beating up the cops. She ended up with the two cops and her dad (a security guard at the hospital they took her to) pinning her to the ground. She was screaming, swearing, the works. They were going to release her to her dad’s custody, but he told them to take her in. She ended up spending the night handcuffed to a chair in the police station. They did eventually get her to do a breathalyzer and she ended up having something like a .28 BAC - YEAH.



Geez. After all that, I’m glad she lost her license for a year. I’m usually sympathetic to people less than 21 who get DUI’s for miniscule amounts of alcohol, or people who lose their licenses in borderline cases in which they didn’t wreck, but your friend is something else. I’d even be fine with sticking her in jail for a couple of days (or weeks) to straighten her out.



The charges ended up being DUI, Assulting an Officer, and something along the lines of damage to personal property - I think they went easy on her.



Ehh…the charges seem about right. Pretty hard to explain during a job interview, though. What else do you think they should have given her?



She lost her license because Pennsylvania has ridiculous underage laws - if you are caught for underage drinking, you automatically lose your license for a year, regardless of whether a vehicle was involved or not.



Those laws are absolutely ridiculous. Way too stringent.