How drunk is drunk?

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Let’s talk a little drunk driving. I’m weaving this story into local politics through the police department.

A South Dakota woman who prosecutors say had a blood-alcohol level almost nine times the legal driving limit has pleaded guilty to two drunken driving charges. Authorities said 45-year-old Marguerite Engle was arrested Dec. 1 when she was found passed out behind the wheel of a stolen delivery van along Interstate 90, with a blood alcohol level at 0.708. The legal limit in South Dakota is 0.08. Officials have said Engle’s blood alcohol level likely is a record for the state.

She was arrested again in late December, with a blood alcohol level more than 3 1/2 times the legal limit.

Engle faces up to two years in jail when she is sentenced on Feb. 23. In exchange for her guilty pleas, prosecutors have agreed not to pursue other charges, including receiving stolen property and drug possession.

She blew a .708 …  A new state record … Followed up by another one in the .30 range!

This a menace to society. A real genuine menace to society and she only get up to two years in jail?

Have I ever driven when I shouldn’t? I’m from Wisconsin what do you think?

BUT A .708 !!!!! Not even in my college days could I do that.

Two years isn’t enough.

What do you think?

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One Response to “How drunk is drunk?”

Shroomduke Says:

January 26th, 2010 at 5:44 am




she should be striped naked and horse whipped in the town square as we all know the bible tells us that punishment is the only cure for sin, vice, crime, and Blasphemy, then sent straight to prison with no trial, trials are quaint but they stand in the way of good old fashoned Justice!

We can see how successful America’s prisons are with a recidivism rate “Within three years of their release, 67% of former prisoners are rearrested and 52% are re-incarcerated” with 7.3 million in U.S. prison system the U.S. Prison Population is the Largest on Earth! NOW THAT’S SUCCESS!

If my friends or family expecialy my children have a mental, drug, alcohol problem Thats the first program I would want them to participate in. In fact I dream of the day when EVERYONE in America is either a Guard or a Prisoner!