tiger wood claims that no alcohol was involved just rx meds. I say probably both rx/alcohol. he also blamed ambien on his last crash that lead to his divorce.
he owns a restaurant. I did not know .
he “may” have been coming from there.
alcholol test negative, according to DUI Affidavit and Testing Facility report…
He was pulled over on the side of the road, asleep in his car. What constitutes DUI? Shouldn’t the person be caught actually operating the vehicle? If someone is driving and begins to feel tired, isn’t it a good idea to pull over immediately? In the long run this is probably a well timed intervention, before he actually injured himself or others. I just wonder how DUI is determined when the person is sleeping in their parked car.
It was reported on Fox that he was asleep in his car that was stopped in the right lane, not on the side of the road. I’m not sure which version is correct.
It was reported that the car was running. That’s the problem.
Police report says the car was stopped in the right lane and running.
Thank goodness no one was injured.
I heard today that there were two flat tires and dented bumpers
Yes, complete police report says the drivers side tires were flat with rim damage. One of the rear lights was out and there was some damage on front bumper and somewhere along the back of the car. The car was stopped in the right lane and somewhat encroaching the bike lane.
Presumably, you are waiting for self-driving cars to become generally available and affordable.
@ucbalumnus I want a driver so I can say “Jeeves, once around the park, then home. Thank you.”
Interesting, the original thing I had heard was he refused to take a breathalyzer, which would make no sense if he had a prescription med reaction.
He still will be liable if the prescription meds caused him to be in a state where he shouldn’t be driving, and given the warnings that painkillers and such have, he can’t claim he didn’t know (not that that would matter). if he took medicines that could cause him to zonk out and it caused him to be in a state where legally he shouldn’t be driving, he is responsible. I have nothing against Tiger Woods, in many ways I feel sorry for him, he was a tremendously gifted athlete who to me in many ways lost something along the way, like the music prodigies I have seen or the athletic kids who were pushed by parents, I think they paid a price for the way they were raised, that they missed out on things you learn growing up, and in the end it hurts them. I agree with others, I think likely in this case he might be a victim of the pain pills from all the surgery he has had, but the fact that he was driving like that knowing he was taking that kind of mix of pills was pretty irresponsible.
I hope he gets his stuff together, I hope he can find a counselor or therapist who can help him put his life back together, he is still a young man and deserves to have his own life, separated from the demons that often seem to have driven him.
As far as Stephen A Smith goes, at times he is amusing, when he is going after targets that deserve it like Jimmy Dolan and the mess he has made of the Knicks (he and Charles Barkley give them all the disrespect they deserve as an organization), but a lot of the time he is just like that Milo guy, out to make a buck out of being an obnoxious Equus africanus asinus.with nothing behind it.
DUIs are state law, but usually it is ‘being in control of the vehicle.’ That can mean just sitting in the drive’s seat, even in a private parking lot. It happens a lot in the parking lots of bars.
I have actually worked on cases like this. You’d think it was rare, but it is not. There was even an Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Debra fell asleep in her car because she’s had too much to drink and calls for someone to pick her up. Arrested for DUI.
I think he needs a caretaker while he heals to make sure he doesn’t leave the house. They said he at first though he had just finished play golf in LA. Then he didn’t know where he was. Those meds will mess you up. When DH had outpatient surgery, I handled dispensing the after-care meds and slept lightly to keep an eye on him.
S hd an outpatient procedure as a teen. He was released to our care and we went to a nearby restaurant for a meal. I was trying to stay near as he was still groggy from the anesthesia but he lurched way and ended up sprawled on the blacktop. Agree that those meds can do a number on the patient. Fortunately, S recovered fine after a meal and rest.
Ongoing pain meds are tougher and I’m sure can cause a ton of havoc on the body. 
I don’t really see why the dashcam video had to be released. Is this standard operating procedure with a pubic figure? Seems a bit unnecessary -no one appears to be questioning what the officers did that evening. Seems to me an exercise in further humiliating a guy who is already down on his luck.
Why not let him go through the normal DUI legal process and deal with his issues privately?
Florida releases almost everything, if not everything. Remember the Casey Anthony murder case. Every week, more info from the case.
I did notice how the officer told Tiger he smelled “an odor” of alcohol when there wasn’t any.
Is every dashcam video released to the press? I don’t have any idea how all this works but the only ones I have seen are on the reality police TV shows. I always assumed they got consent of the person stopped because in some of them the faces were blurred out.
“I want a driver so I can say “Jeeves, once around the park, then home. Thank you.””
You can name your self-driving car “Jeeves”. 