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Old 01-29-2008, 08:19 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Drunk Driving Charge
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Statement Over the Phone Nets Drunken Driving Charge

By Erik Bilstad


Story Created: Jan 28, 2008
Story Updated: Jan 29, 2008

Click here to listen to Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Erik Bilstad report Pat Dykstra's drunk 9-1-1 experience, including audio from the 9-1-1 call.
Thanks to a tip call, a woman from Fox Lake in Dodge County was ticketed for driving drunk.
That tip call, by the way, was from her.
Pat Dykstra was driving home from the bar, because her boyfriend was drunk.
He thought she was too drunk also, so he told her to call 9-1-1.
"Somebody seems to think I can't drive home straight," said a slurring Dykstra on the 9-1-1 call.
"(My husband) seems to think I'm too intoxicated to drive. He wanted me to call 9-1-1 because he thinks I'm too drunk to drive."
Deputies were dispatched and found Dykstra at home.
"I was home already, and in my pajamas, going to bed," said a sober Dykstra the next day.
She registered a .14 blood alcohol level, above the legal limit of .08, and received a ticket.
Dykstra doesn't really think that's fair, considering she got home safely.
"It's good in a way, but if I'd have thought about it, it wasn't good for my driving record."



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Here is what I think...since the woman got home safely and did not have an accident, she should not have received a fine. I am sure that this will discourage others who may well need official intervention from calling to report themselves too drunk to drive. And that would have been a good thing, if people would have felt that they could turn to The Law for help instead of punishment.

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Old 01-29-2008, 09:44 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Here is what I think...since the woman got home safely and did not have an accident, she should not have received a fine. I am sure that this will discourage others who may well need official intervention from calling to report themselves too drunk to drive. And that would have been a good thing, if people would have felt that they could turn to The Law for help instead of punishment.

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All she has to do is contest the ticket in court, and claim she had a couple of belts when she got home.

The court can only consider the numbers, and they don't have those for the period of time that she was driving.
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Here's what I think: "if you drink don't drive do the watermelon crawllllllllll."
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Here's what I think: "if you drink don't drive do the watermelon crawllllllllll."

MMMmmmmm watermelons! Damn it! Now you've made me miss summer even more!
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Here's what I think: "if you drink don't drive do the watermelon crawllllllllll."
At the risk of showing my lack of experience here...

what IS the watermelon crawl (added l's for effect)???

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Tracy Byrd has got it right!

YouTube - Tracy Byrd - Watermelon Crawl
I saw you posted that right before my inquiry but now I see the video is no longer available.

Shoot man...

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Here is what I think...since the woman got home safely and did not have an accident, she should not have received a fine. I am sure that this will discourage others who may well need official intervention from calling to report themselves too drunk to drive. And that would have been a good thing, if people would have felt that they could turn to The Law for help instead of punishment.

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I kinda, sorta agree with you.

The fact is, that she should have been calling for help before she got behind the wheel of her car not from from the driver's seat on the way home.

But since she was at home when she was tested, I fail to see how there is any proof that she ever drove drunk.
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Okay, here's what I think.

If you are stupid enough to actually call 911 because your husband tells you to, you deserve anything you get.
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Okay, here's what I think.

If you are stupid enough to actually call 911 because your husband tells you to, you deserve anything you get.
Good point!
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