Tag: DUI

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Arrested For Misdemeanor DUI

Via ZeroHedge

The bear market has taken its toll on the richest “husband” in US Congress: as first reported by TMZ, Paul Pelosi – husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – perhaps best known for putting on massive call option trades in names like Google, Micron, Roblox, Disney which are now massively underwater, was arrested at 11:44pm on Saturday night in Napa County and booked hours later into jail on two counts – driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol content level of 0.08 or higher, both of which are misdemeanors.

Since the bail for Paul – who has been been married to Nancy since 1963 – was set at paltry $5,000, a pittance for the multi-millionaire, he was released at 7:26, shortly after he was booked at 4:13am on Sunday morning.

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Theocracy Advances in Utah… And Soon Near You, Too

Guest Post by Eric Peters

FILE – In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Rep. Norm Thurston, R-Provo, looks on as he stands on he floor of the Utah House of Representatives at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah’s hospitality industry is urging Gov. Gary Herbert to veto a bill giving Utah the strictest DUI threshold in the country, lowering the blood alcohol limit to .05 percent, down from .08 percent. Thurston, says he doesn’t think it will hurt tourism but it would make people think twice about drinking and driving. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The slippery slope argument gets mocked a lot – but here’s another case that proves the point:

Utah has just done what thinking brains knew was inevitably coming. The state government has nearly halved the legal threshold defining what risibly continues to be called “drunk” driving (see here) from the iffy .08 BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) to the downright ridiculous .05 BAC.

This is a level that many people reach after as few as two – or fewer – drinks. One is enough, in some cases, to risk a “bust.”

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California Man Arrested, Charged with Driving Under the Influence — Of Caffeine

Via The Free Thought Project

Solano County, CA — 38-year-old Joseph Schwab has been fighting a DUI for over a year, despite the fact that he was not under the influence of any illegal drugs at the time, he did, however, test positive for caffeine.

The Guardian reported that Schwab was pulled over last August by an officer who accused him of driving erratically.

Schwab was driving home from work when he was pulled over by an agent from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, who was driving an unmarked vehicle. The agent said Schwab had cut her off and was driving erratically. The officer claims that Schwab cut her off and she gave him a breathalyzer which showed a blood alcohol content of 0.00%.

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A DUI Story

I drink and drive quite often. I’ll go to my parent’s house to have a wonderful German dinner cooked by mom, and have a couple German beers … maybe three. Or, we’ll go to a restaurant, and I’ll have a couple glasses of wine … maybe three. But, I never give it much thought because at 6’7” and about 270 pounds, I figured I don’t have much to worry about in terms of blood-alcohol levels.

So, I don’t believe I drive drunk … at least not in the past forty years. I’m positive I drove drunk more than a few times as a young man in my 20’s … going to bars, and picking up babes. Or, more likely, going to a bar to shoot some pool with my buddies, and staying until the 2AM closing … boozing and smoking for the past five hours. I might have been inebriated then. I was young and stupid. Then again, getting a DUI wasn’t THAT big a deal back then. Pay a fine, get some points, have your insurance premium jacked up … and then go on, life as usual.

I don’t know exactly what the penalties are today … except that they can be severe. Exactly HOW severe I did not know until very recently … via a friend of ours. Perhaps this short story will save someone’s ass down the line.

We have a friend, let’s call her “Christine” (not her real name). She is a single woman (divorced) in her 40’s, with two children. She lives here in NJ, in a nice upper middle-class community. She is a high school science teacher. She does have a couple traffic violation tickets. But, other than that, she has no criminal record whatsoever. Christine is a very petite woman; about 5’2” and – I’m guessing – 110 pounds, soaking wet. Just your average, upstanding, hard-working citizen.

A little while ago she agreed to meet a man in New York City. They had previously “met” on match.com, exchanged emails for a while, then spoke over the phone for a while more, and they finally agreed to meet. The “meet” went OK. He bought her TWO glasses of wine (I have ZERO reason to disbelieve her) over the course of about one hour, they agreed to meet again, and then they parted ways.

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