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| 11-Year-Old Girl Charged With DUI; After 8-Mile Police Chase | |
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| Deleted User | Jul 7 2007, 06:05 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288399,00.html Police who chased a car for miles along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph said the driver was drunk, hardly a rarity in this resort town. But there was more: When they looked inside the flipped vehicle with guns drawn, they found an 11-year-old girl at the wheel. "You go up there thinking it's a felon you're dealing with," assistant police Chief Greg Duck said. The girl, who was slightly injured in the crash, is now charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. Duck said she sideswiped another vehicle during the roughly 8-mile chase. The chase began around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a patrol officer near the Florida line saw the car speeding west along a beach highway, Duck said. When the officer flicked on his lights, the driver sped up. The girl rolled the car just inside the Gulf Shores city limit. Duck said the girl, whose name was not released because of her age, told police she was on her way to pick up her sister at a concert. Investigators found no alcohol in the car but believe the girl drank before getting behind the wheel of the car, which belongs to relatives. Duck declined to release the girl's blood alcohol level but said a blood test at the hospital showed it was higher than .02, the legal limit for minors. To se video scroll down to "Related" click. 2 things I wonder, is she going to get off light? Will her parents spank her? <_< |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 7 2007, 06:09 PM Post #2 |
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| Queenbee | Jul 7 2007, 06:14 PM Post #3 |
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Sad story to read of a 11 year old drunk and driving. I have a grandson that's 11 and I can't even imagine him doing that. You have to wonder what the home situation is like. I understand not all bad kids are from bad home environments but you have to wonder why? |
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| Dorfliedot | Jul 7 2007, 06:41 PM Post #4 |
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Yes, I am wondering why this child was driving and drunk in first place. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 7 2007, 07:04 PM Post #5 |
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why do they have a legal limit for minors? |
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| Deleted User | Jul 7 2007, 07:46 PM Post #6 |
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Mabe for medicinal purposes, certain medicatins contain alcohol there for the state would impose a legal limit. |
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| mellaw99 | Jul 7 2007, 09:43 PM Post #7 |
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That's just crazy.
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| ogoble | Jul 8 2007, 01:17 AM Post #8 |
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If she was my daughter.....yes. |
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| Emilee | Jul 8 2007, 02:43 AM Post #9 |
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holy shite. 11-years-old? the world's gone mad. |
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| james | Jul 8 2007, 06:18 AM Post #10 |
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her mom dont watch her i think!
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| Adilah | Jul 8 2007, 10:11 AM Post #11 |
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I've noticed the Euromerican media print many stories of people committing crimes and doing bad things. Where are the stories of exceptional acts and people committing wonderment? Is someone's pain and suffering more newsworthy than their joy and happiness? I'm sure somewhere an 11-year-old girl did something uplifting. I think the good should be rewarded more than the bad should be illuminated. |
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| Sandra | Jul 8 2007, 12:36 PM Post #12 |
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Well the under age drunk driving is a worry that's for sure (any age drunk driving is) I find it equally of concern though that the police were chasing a drunk driver at speeds of up to hundred miles an hour and then they had their guns drawn when they were looking into the flipped over car. I'm sure I'll be told it's standard procedure that the person inside the car could have been carrying a gun as I'm sure they could but have been. I still find it an uncomfortable thought that the first thing the police did at the scene of an accident is draw their guns.
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| Bill | Jul 8 2007, 02:36 PM Post #13 |
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Short answer? Yes. |
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| fab4fan | Jul 8 2007, 02:50 PM Post #14 |
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It's not just the media though. This thread topic didn't fly very well: Feel good stories of 2007 (Apologies to billyshears! Talk about good things, Any Good things going on?) |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 8 2007, 06:26 PM Post #15 |
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I think that if someone's 11 year old daughter is doing this kind of thing, then her parents have already failed her. |
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| beatlechick | Jul 9 2007, 03:10 AM Post #16 |
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Sandra, the reason why they would draw their guns is that this was a police chase at 100 mph which means that the person behind the wheel had little disregard for the law no matter what the age is. How were they to know that the person behind the was 11 yrs old? |
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| mozart8mytoe | Jul 9 2007, 03:29 AM Post #17 |
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If this little b*tch were my daughter I would make sure she damn well knows in no uncertain terms that she is never allowed to get into my vodka again. If she can drive the car, she can go get her own.
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| Deleted User | Jul 9 2007, 03:32 PM Post #18 |
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Unfortunately that's the media everwhere. It seems the only good story is the dirty laundry or bad news is the only thing that is considered "news worthy". Just like Iraq, all you hear is bombing and how many deaths occured today. What about the power that was restored or the school that opened, or the 11 yo girl who saved her grandma? Those stories are out there but the press hardly covers them. |
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| Bill | Jul 9 2007, 03:39 PM Post #19 |
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Yeah, where's all the news about how good war is? And now, the traffic report. With the exception of a fatal crash, which we won't dwell on, everyone got home safely, had a nice dinner and relaxed in front of the tv before going to bed. We will keep you posted of any further developments. Later in tonights bulletin: Politician's child excels at school and has never touched drugs. |
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| beatlechick | Jul 9 2007, 11:44 PM Post #20 |
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How about this. Newscaster says: Nothing happened today. The world must be aligned with the planets because no one got shot, no bad accidents, the war stopped because a kitten, a puppy, a mouse, and a bird crossed the road together, and mother nature was just beautiful today. Folks take this all in, it probably won't last. |
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| mozart8mytoe | Jul 12 2007, 02:38 AM Post #21 |
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I suppose that answers the question. No bad news is no news. |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 12 2007, 09:45 AM Post #22 |
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In fact, there was a trend to put a 'feel good' story at the end of the news for a while (I suspect that some news stations still do this) so that people don't feel like topping themselves after watching the state of the world. I saw those stories as tagged on, contrived and usually vomit-inducing. I'd prefer my news the way it comes, rather than sugar coated. I'm a big boy - I can take it. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 12 2007, 12:52 PM Post #23 |
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Well, exactly. We should take it as a good sign that the good outweighs the bad. The news incorporates positive stories and I'm happy with that. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 12 2007, 02:05 PM Post #24 |
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Here is good news you won't here on most news outlets. http://www.mytempdir.com/1371542 Staff Sgt. Clinton Yoder holds the hand of a 7-month-old baby he treated for a poisonous spider bite, June 23, in a village on the western outskirts of Baqubah, Iraq. Yoder is with 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Soldiers of 2-1 Cav., 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., have sealed off the western side of Baqubah as their sister Stryker Brigade, 3-2 SBCT, also from Fort Lewis, Wash., continues to clear the city of Baqubah in a major offensive known as Arrowhead Ripper, launched on the city and its outskirts on June 18. Arrowhead Ripper aims to kill or capture all insurgents in Baqubah by sealing off the city and any avenues of escape. Meanwhile, Soldiers with 4-2 SBCT are meeting with village leaders and rendering medical aid to people in the outlying villages. Photographer: Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. What other military in the world would take the time and interest to treat a 7 month old baby in the middle of combat operations. AQ NOPE the Iranians Doubt it, Hezbollah NO they would be using the child as a human shield. I guess maybe this child and its family wont think we are the great satan anymore. |
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| JeffLynnesBeard | Jul 12 2007, 10:27 PM Post #25 |
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Yes, of course... America the great, compassionate, philanthropic nation which only acts for the forces of good. :rolleyes: Do you really believe that? Since when has Hezbollah been a nation's military anyway? I think we're getting a little off-topic here. |
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| beatlechick | Jul 13 2007, 01:16 AM Post #26 |
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Or Andy, you could also say see how an innocent story gets spun to show how good something really is? As for the story this thread is for, there is no good way to spin it. This girl needs to be shown, and shown how the emergency personnel see it, what exactly happens when a drunk driver hits an innocent person. And she also needs to shown what happens to your liver and your brain after alcohol eats it up. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 13 2007, 01:34 AM Post #27 |
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I am sure they all would, after all soldiers are human too. Regardless of what uniform they wear. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 13 2007, 01:15 PM Post #28 |
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Yeah, ungrateful b*stards. You're assuming they already do. Do you know how many Iraqis are supporting the U.S.? And so what if they feel their country is a more dangerous place since the invasion? That's a real shame. They are human beings with love and their own feelings of what's right. Just like the rest of us. |
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| Reverend Dave | Jul 18 2007, 02:25 AM Post #29 |
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I think the point of the story was that an American soldier took the time to do some good in the middle of all that carnage. Soldiers from other countries do good things too, but this story focused on one particular American. I'd like to hear more stories like this. bad news is never the only news. Good things happen all the time, they just don't get the ratings. |
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| billyshears | Jul 30 2007, 05:01 AM Post #30 |
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Number 1: We're WAY off topic now. Number 2: 11-year old drunk driving? She's too young to drink alcohol, and drive! This world is getting a little crazy now. What's next? 9-year-old commits suicide with his dad's gun while he's home alone? Oh my f*ckin God, this is getting outta control!!!
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I still find it an uncomfortable thought that the first thing the police did at the scene of an accident is draw their guns.

2:01 PM Jul 11