NEWS: Drunk-Ass Gets 70 Years for DWI

CULTURE: Drunk-Ass Gets 70 Years for DWI

A Texas man received a 70 year prison sentence for getting his 8th DWI in 20 years. To make matters worse the jury declared him guilty of using his truck as a deadly weapon, meaning he isn’t eligible for parole for 30 years.

Wendell Klotz, 52, who abandoned his truck after hitting a fence, began drinking that day at 10 am. He’s been to prison four times for DWI and parole violations. He was sent to a Texas alcoholic treatment center in 1996 but was kicked out for not observing the facility’s rules.

Klotz received the sentence in Williamson county, a district known for tough DWI sentencing. In 2005 country singer/boozer Gary Gibbs got himself a life sentence in Williamson county prison after his 8th DWI.

Phew! That one more problem under the rug! Now that's decisive!

Damn, they don't mess around there in Williamson County, TX

This happened in Texas? I'm shocked!

/sarcasmobviously

they do not.
the georgetown pd is a force to be reckoned with.

8 DUIs is a lot.

Have fun in jail, buckaroo.

wow.
i can definitely say i know someone who's headed in his path of glory.

Good for them. Not sarcasm.

if i ever get a life sentence, it's going to be for something so much cooler than 8 DWI's.

There are some people that just can't be helped, he had enough chances to correct and learn from his mistakes, he chose not to repeatedly. he got what he deserved.

Glad the took care of this in a timely fashion...

NM beats that by a long shot.

13 prior convictions

14 prior convictions, but 28 offenses

Good.

I was hit nearly head-on and then crashed into a brick wall, because of a drunk driver, with no license, and 7 DUIs to his name.

I was extremely lucky to even survive, let alone get out with only minor injuries.

In the ambulance he kept trying to molest me, until the EMTs tied him down.

In the hospital he screamed for nearly 2 hours about how they had no right to take a "fine young black gentleman" out of his own home (he was old, not fine, and no gentleman).

My friend was killed by a drunk driver while standing in his own front yard.

There is no sentence long enough for DWI.

This is exactly what prison should be for - preventing fucking menaces from being out where they can hurt people.

When I saw the caption picture, it made me think of this video( where the homeless are exploited for cash)...

Huh, I accepted an outcry against this for some reason.
Yeah, he was pretty much going to murder (yes, not manslaughter) someone soon.

8 times is too many chances. Yeah, treatment is a good idea, but how many times can this guy be allowed out to endanger us when he doesn't follow through with treatment? I'd think that if someone has had even 2 DUIs (I wasn't even aware that anywhere still used DWI as a charge) - and admittedly, some people might not be blotto at .08, but the "one drink gets me to .08" thing is basically crap - they should have gotten the poit that drinking and driving is a bad idea, even if they really think they drive okay. Obviously, they' had a couple arrests. That should be enough to learn.

And as to claims of one drink getting you to .08 BAC, I've never seen anyone honestly get that from one drink. To get certified as a Breath Alcohol Technician 11 years ago (yeah, we were Certified Bats) we experimented with many things and the smallest female there, not a regular drinker (yeah, gender seems to make a difference) drank 3 drinks and blew a .06. And we definitely wouldn't have wanted her driving. And she wasn't a regular drinker. A regular drinker would generally take considerably more to reach .08. It took me 4 shots of Cuervo and 8 rum and cokes to blow a .14 (at the time I was aregular drinker).

Anyway, 8 DUIs or DWIs is enough to warrant ensuring that someone does not drive. Ever. And the only way to do that in a case like this is jail or prison. Well, actually, it IS Texas - they could maybe finagle a Death Penalty.

I'm all for rehabilitation over punishment. But you can't keep endangering people and get more chances.

YEE fuckin HAW! !

fuck georgetown, fuck wilco. it took them 8 times to round this guy up and really do something? but if i wanna take a walk at night in my own neighborhood i get harassed?! and my friend who has a carved walking staff is told he's weilding a deadly weapon while elderly pussies carry golf clubs and pipes!? where they bring out a drug dog to search my friend's car after he ws pulled over for having a break light out!? in the middle of the day. and we checked it afterward, it worked. i have plenty of stories about those ass-backwards motherfuckers. that guy should have been in jail a long time ago. fuck 'em all!
*rant over*

I work for the DMV here in NM (yes, my head is hung in shame) and the really bad part is there's a lot of cases out where people have tons of convictions like that but are still on the road. They're a danger to everyone and they should be locked up just like this guy.

I'm a little curious about some of this.
Size would seemingly make an obvious difference. A larger person has more blood. (right? )
But I was always under the impression that tollerance has no bearing on BAC at all. Is that not the case ?

If you are a "regular" drinker you may not feel as drunk because of a built up tollerance but your BAC is still exactly the same as anyone elses. Isn't it ?

100% correct. He had chance after chance to change and did not. Now it is time to lock him up before somebody gets killed.

You can get to eight? EIGHT? Seriously? Look, I'm as liberal as anyone, and yes, of course, treatment first, all that. But come on, EIGHT? I say treatment after the first time, jail after the second, and every time after that we just get a bunch of muscle-bound guys who've lost family members to drunk drivers to beat you, horribly, with sticks.

Actually, yeah. But for whatever reason, the ones in the group that drank regularly (twice or more amonth) seemed to have lower BACs at the same quantities. Of course, there are so many factors, and some of these were heavier.

Now, the real interesting thing was many of us thought you 'lose' about a drink an hour. It' actually, with a HEALTHY liver, yo lose approximately .015 BAC an hour. this is really for most people less than a drink. Plus, if you're still drinking, you're not really losing. The real loss starts after the cessation of drinking, so peoplecan still blow positive the next day. If you go to bed with a .15 BAC and your liver is healthy, it should take about 10 hours to get a BAC of 0.

I don't know why I typed a correlation between tolerance and BAC. It was actually that a non-habitual drinker showed more signs of intoxication with much fewer drinks. However, when we watched field sobriety tests and state trooper driving tests, people with even a .05 were noticably slower on reflexes.

Anyway, a person can get just so many chances; at ome point it must be recognized that he is an unchanging Societal Menace.