Cedric Benson arrested (and now released)

If you can't get drunk on your own boat where can you get drunk?

Because the keys were in the ignition. He was looking at the motor or something similar. I had an underage possession of alcohol and they made me go to a DUI class with other folks. While a majority were typical DUI cases, most of them were people too poor to fight it. The girl that blew a .06 and her blood test showed .01 -- DUI. The guy who was mowing his lawn with a beer. You know that you're on state property within 10 feet of the highway? Got a DUI mowing his yard.

Let's stop kidding ourselves. The police's job has turned from concentrating on safety and protection and moved to making money. The problem is so many laws are ambiguous. There's no 'law' that says .08 or over and you're drunk. It's a suggestion, you can be charged for DUI whenever if the cop wants to, and it's all about if you have the financial means to fight such a charge. The boat thing IS very rare, but it can happen.

Oddly enough, I did my paper for VASAP about what a terrible organization MADD is and the teacher praised me for it. MADD lies horribly in their statistics (if you get in an accident on the way home from the grocery store with a 6 pack of beer in your trunk, that's alcohol related accident in their opinion), the person who founded MADD left because of how they bastardized her ideas, etc.
[this information all from VASAP]


I agree completely, my roommate was making a phone call in front of a party (while being stone-cold sober) and a cop came running at him from the street causing my friend to drop his cup and put his hands up. The cop then charged him with littering... on private property.

ESPN - Bears' Benson says BWI, resisting arrest charges unfounded - NFL (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3380764)

Bears' Benson says BWI, resisting arrest charges unfounded

Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson was charged with boating while intoxicated after failing a sobriety test and resisting arrest that required officers to use pepper spray before dragging him ashore Saturday night, according to police.

If found guilty, Benson faces up to six months in jail and $2,000 for each class B misdemeanor. No court date has been set. In Texas, a BWI charge carries the same weight as a DWI.

The former Texas Longhorn, however, said he was not drunk and did not resist arrest.

"I was not intoxicated," Benson told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There was alcohol on the boat and others were enjoying themselves, but I wasn't drunk."

I wonder if he is telling the truth or not?

I don't know if he was drunk or not, but if it is as the police say it was then I think the Bears might try and get rid of him soon. He's on the brink of being called a bust and I think they want to cut their losses with him and move on. It doesn't help that supposed reports coming out of the Bears minicamp is that Matt Forte is impressing a lot of people so far.

Why did the Bears get rid of Thomas Jones agian?

Here's a good artical on the Neo-Madd Moms.

FOXNews.com - When Drunk Driving Deterrence Becomes Neo-Prohibition - Blog | Blogs | Popular Blogs | Video Blogs (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171383,00.html)

Thomas Jones also had a crappy year in New York. That trade worked out well for Chicago.

I live here in Austin and there is some stuff coming out that the police may have mishandled this whole thing with some gross negligence. I'm not saying he wasn't drunk, but they used mace on him. Check out the video here (http://poststuff5.entensity.net/050508/media.php?media=itch.wmv) (NSFW).

Still, keys in the ignition -- where's he going? Common sense has left law.

I know it's quite popular to beat up on judges, "runaway juries" and lawyers, but I don't think common sense has left the law. In any case, DUI laws vary from state to state. Whether sitting behind the wheel of a car with the keys in the ignition and alcohol running in your blood constitutes OWI/DWI/DUI depends on state law. Also, there are sound reasons for allowing prosecutors to charge people with OWI/DWI/DUI for just sitting behind the wheel.

normally i follow up these stories by calling the player in question an idiot, but boating while intoxicated isn't exactly the world's worst crime...

I don't drink and drive/ride anything(anymore). I was at my friend boot camp graduation party several years ago, and we ran out of beer. We knew we couldn't drive, so we saddled up his moms 2 horses and rode about 1/2 mile to the store. Needless to say, the cops didn't find that very amusing. I don't know about Texas, but in Va. drinking on a boat is pretty serious. He's really lucky it was the police, and not the game warden.
I don't think the police has lost thier common sense though, look at what idiots we live around everyday. They can't afford to give someone that's drunk a break because there's so many deaths due to alcohol everyday on the roads, and several of them on the lakes and rivers.