How not to get away with DWI

Every TV station and every radio station – including this one – occasionally runs public service announcements advising people not to drink and drive. Plan ahead. Get a taxi. Have someone else drive. Someone who wasn't drinking. Occasionally, you'll hear a news story about someone getting arrested for driving without a license ... and the excuse is that they had to, cause their friend was too drunk to drive. Maybe not the best excuse, but allowing a non-licensed driver ... or a person with a suspended license ... to drive is probably preferable to driving loaded. Other times, we hear of the driver and passenger trading places after the traffic stop so that it doesn't look like the drunk was driving. Well that's just what Mary Green of Cincinnati, Ohio did recently. Driving home late Tuesday with a .11 blood alcohol content – well above the .08 limit in Ohio, she decided to switch places with one of the passengers in her car when she was pulled over so it wouldn't look like she was driving. The passenger was only too happy to sit behind the steering wheel and talk to police. It's not often that mommy would let her one year old son play with the car, so this must have seemed like the perfect opportunity. What's that? Oh, no, you heard me right. Her ONE year old. See, Mary was driving with her three kids, aged one, five and eight. Of course, if you're going to let an eight year old pretend to drive, why not a five year old? And if you're going to allow a five year old pretend to drive, why not a one year old? The logic is incredible. Well, needless to say, the long arm of the law wasn't buying it ... and Ms. Green got another DWI. That's right. Another. Her third. Her license was suspended after the last one. Of course, she was also charged with child endangerment. Too bad you can't suspend her parent license. Not that she'd care, apparently.

http://video.nbc4.com/player/?id=260409

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/71943/child_endangerment_in_criminal_law.html