DWI As A Team Sport
Well, this is a novel defense. Two men were picked up and charged with drunken driving in Marshfield, Wisconsin. What's odd about that, you ask. Well, they were driving the same pickup truck. At the same time.
MARSHFIELD, Wis. - How do you become a celebrity? How about being charged with drunken driving while you and a friend are trying to drive the same pickup truck home. It worked for two men, Harvey Miller, 43, and Edwin Marzinske, 55.
"I always thought I'd be famous, just not this way," said Miller, a paraplegic who was steering a pickup truck with Marzinske on the gas pedal and brakes when they were stopped on a Friday night in August.
"Pretty much everywhere we go it's people coming up, 'Hey, can we get our pictures with you? Can we get your autograph?'" he said Wednesday. "We never expected this to escalate."
The news also got twisted somewhat, the men said, blaming it in part on a Colby-Abbotsford police report said Miller had no legs. He has his legs but a logging accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. A message left for the police department wasn't immediately returned Thursday.
The novel defense? Since neither had control of the vehicle, neither one was driving. (I'm guessing that this defense will not be a hit with the judge.) Miller's blood alcohol was 0.16, Marzinske was at 0.09. The only thing that could be said in their favor is that they were driving slowly, 35 in a 55.
Crime, Weird Stuff | Gaius Friday, 7 September , 2007
By Bleepless, Friday, 7 September , 2007 @ 8:27 pm
But if you add them together, you get 0.25. Not bad, guys.