We as a society are trying so hard to fight distracted driving by warning about the dangers of using your phone while you’re behind the wheel — but it seems we have to expand the message from “Don’t text/use social media/email” while driving to also include, “Don’t try to order pizza online while you maneuver a huge hunk of metal through the world.” And don’t drink and drive on top of that (or at all).
Police in Louisville say they pulled over a woman who was driving erratically at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, reports WDRB.com, swerving in and out of her lane.
So they pulled her over on suspicion of driving under the influence, whereupon they found she smelled like booze and had glossy eyes. She admitted to drinking half a bottle of wine and a beer. And pulled up on her phone’s web browser? The Domino’s Pizza site, as she’d apparently been trying to find a place to buy pizza.
She was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs and a communications device violation.
We hope she was given another reminder: That drinking half a bottle of wine and trying to get some pizza in your belly isn’t bad at all — if you’re safely ensconced on your couch binge-watching online TV into the wee hours of the morning, without the power to kill every other person on the road near you while you seek drunk food.
Louisville woman accused of surfing the Web on phone while driving drunk [WDRB.com]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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