"Hey, whatcha in for?" "Passed out while driving my lawn mower."
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Court records said 35-year-old Ryan O'Toole was sentenced Thursday to six to eight years. He'd pleaded guilty to refusing to submit to a sobriety test. Prosecutors dropped a charge of driving under the influence, fifth or subsequent offense. He also was credited for 176 days already served.
Officers found O'Toole lying near the mower on May 25. Police say he'd been driving it south against one-way traffic and fell off when he tried to turn west. Officers say he'd been drinking beer while driving from house to house.
When police found Ryan O'Toole passed out beside a riding lawn mower on 10th Street a mile from a Lincoln police station last May, it was his sixth DUI in eight years, prosecutors said.
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O'Toole later pleaded no contest to refusal to submit to a chemical test, which Lancaster County District Judge Lori Maret found to be a fifth or subsequent offense, making it a felony that carries a sentence of up to 50 years in prison.
Nobody got hurt but it looks like he's one of those real persistent offenders. Some guys just don't get it. And they're the ones who eventually get behind the wheel of a vehicle and kill or injure themselves and/or others regardless of if they have a driver's license or not. There's an accident looking for a place to happen. Not blaming the guy personally because I've seen alcoholism screw up some otherwise very good people. Hope he can come to grips with it and straighten out his life.
Know a guy that got a DWI while riding a horse. It was a long time ago. miles
Had a college prof who got DUI'd for pedaling a moped.. Because he knew he'd had too much to drink to power it up and get in the street, he just rode it as a bicycle on the sidewalks to get home (you couldn't get DUI'd on a bike at that time, at least). Cops got him anyway, since the moped had an engine it didn't matter if powered it up or not. It was a "motorized vehicle".
Happened to a guy in SD His umteenth offense, some guys need a slap up side the head to get the point.
Went all the way to the SD Supreme Court and yup, a riding lawn mower qualifies as a vehicle. The Legislature did exempt horses and bicycles because it was getting silly but there's still public intoxication.
You know, there was a time when people would have gotten in their cars and drove out there to hang the judge and jury over that. Or maybe that was get on their horses and ride out. Or maybe I just wish there was.
You know, there was a time when people would have gotten in their cars and drove out there to hang the judge and jury over that. Or maybe that was get on their horses and ride out. Or maybe I just wish there was.
There was a time when people would have just hung the wetback from the nearest tree.
I've got a cousin like that. He has been a worthless drunk his entire adult life. His in-laws gave his two children bicycles and he pawned them for beer money. He has been convicted of DUI on a riding mower. He has spent time in the pen for DUI. He has had strokes and now lives on Social Security. He is mid 50's and looks like mid 80's. A truly wasted life.
Suppose he's driving a kid's Big Wheel. What hazard does he present then?
Being the cause of an accident as folks go about avoiding him.
Just like a kid on the Big Wheel.
You mean a drunk kid right?
Drunk adult on a Big Wheel in traffic, drunk toddler on a Big Wheel in traffic, both are a danger to traffic, one should know better the other not necessarily so.
The Big Wheel thing was to elicit responses about how much if any difference it made if he was driving a "deadly weapon" himself, besides being a danger to traffic.
Suppose he's driving a kid's Big Wheel. What hazard does he present then?
Hopefully if he's riding a kids Big Wheel, he'll pull out in front of a Mack truck and nobody will have to worry about the drunken loser again. That answer your question?
He plead guilty to refusing a sobriety test. That'll get you in deep doo doo every time.
The laws against refusing a sobriety test are pretty flakey. One of these days somebody is going to test that Constitutionally.
Last I knew in Colorado if refusing a sobriety test it's an automatic 1 year suspension of license.
I knew a guy with two priors who was busted riding home on his horse on a public road while drunk. Apparently there is a specific law in Colorado against that and it has been around for a long time. He did a year in jail......
Not if the Mack truck driver swerves to miss drunken loser on Big Wheel and hits your wife and kids or mother, father, sister and brother head on and kills them. But hey, you're ok with it so no biggy.
... except he was apparently DUI while on a public highway. Even a bicyclist is subject to laws while on a public road. Six too eight years sounds rather harsh unless young Ryan had a number of other problems.
Not if the Mack truck driver swerves to miss drunken loser on Big Wheel and hits your wife and kids or mother, father, sister and brother head on and kills them. But hey, you're ok with it so no biggy.
If a person can get 6-8 for DWI on a riding mower that is not defined as a motor vehicle in Nebraska, should pedestrian get 6-8 for public intoxication after walking down a one way street?
I think he is a dumba$$ but 6-8 years is retarded.
In many states even sleeping in the backseat of a vehicle with high blood alcohol can bring a DUI conviction. Hiding the keys outside the vehicle might prevent this.
Gotta keep greasing the wheels of justice and adjudicating success by the quarterly profits of our prisons. If it wasn’t for chickenshit stuff like this many departments would fail to exist in spite of their already irrelevant status.
Horse, lawnmower, big wheels or bicycle it’s a pathetic “bust”.
Suppose he's driving a kid's Big Wheel. What hazard does he present then?
Being the cause of an accident as folks go about avoiding him.
Just like a kid on the Big Wheel.
I guess I assume this happened at night when a kid is likely to not be out riding said Big Wheel. Mid-day the Big Wheel danger is the same, no matter who's perched atop it.
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