Got a call from my daughter last night from the local police station. She had been picked up for DUI and was asking my advice if she should give consent for a breath test at the station. Ten minutes before that her husband called me to let me know there was trouble. Apparently a group of young married couples had supper at their house, enjoyed a fire at their firepit and walked to a local establishment for a nightcap. The bar/restaurant they walked to was about 8 blocks away. On the way back, according to him, she had ran the last block and was going to act like she was going to pick up the stragglers. She hopped in his truck(parked on their driveway) and started it backing it down to the street when lights came on. The local cop was watching and arrested her for OWI. I advised her to take the test at the local PD as refusal to take it is a years suspension of your DL . I did tell her to request a blood test, as she was arrested at 12 am and the test would not be taken until roughly 2 am by the time the PO made it to the county jail/hospital. Spent a sleepless night waiting for their call. The stupid thing was getting behind the wheel, but we all make mistakes. In my opinion, the local cop could have made a judgement call and told them to go back to the fire. However he did not. She is 22 and a top notch nurse in our community. Her and her husband work their tails off at their jobs and are good kids. I would like to help them out, any advice? Hire attorney and try to plead it down? Thanks
This was not a mistake, she had consumed alcohol, she had no idea what her blood alcohol level was, and she had every intention of driving to her destination 8 blocks away, and God knows where else.
Advice ? Let her pay for her what you call a "mistake", don't teach her to have others get her out of her "mistakes", and don't teach her that what she did was okay, she will only pass it on to her children, and so on, and so on.
It takes a good man to teach them right, and just a male to teach them wrong, as in how to do what you want to do to "protect" her. After all is said and done, she will learn by your words and actions and the part you take in all of this, and when the time comes and I pray it never does, but it sure looks like it will by what you are teaching her, she will kill someone in a drunken "mistake", maybe she will kill herself, and you will be the one that planted the seed, and you will carry the guilt, or maybe not, considering the way you are approaching this incident.
God Bless all who have, and will suffer, because of someone else's "mistakes", and those who teach them that those type of actions are just "mistakes".
Lynn
I understand your sentiments, but you need to reread the OP. The total trip was 8 blocks... she ran the last block and was pretending to go one block back, but never left the driveway.
