NEWS: Judge Dismisses Wheelchair DUI Case

CULTURE: Judge Dismisses Wheelchair DUI Case

It's gotta suck being confined to a wheelchair due to accidents or genetics. It sucks even worse when the local DA charges you for being drunk while operating your wheelchair.



Cynthia Christensen, confined to a wheelchair due to numerous maladies, was cited on a DUI charge after an accident with her wheelchair.

She registered a 0.102 blood-alcohol level at the time, over Florida's limit of 0.08.



Judge Peyton Hyslop dismissed the case, ruling that the wheelchair was equivalent to her legs, and finding her guilty would open up DUI charges and convictions to anybody with a blood alcohol level over 0.08 who decided to stand up. He rejected the argument that a wheelchair be defined as a vehicle.



In a related story, an animal cruelty case against the disabled woman was still pending; she was charged for biting the head off a python last May.

You start too feel bad for her and all and then BAM! They hit you with the python eating....

wtf.

You took the words out of my mouth.

this would make a great "germany or florida" thing on loveline. that part about the python really *is* a hilariously bizarre footnote.

Is that a euphamism for something?

As in, I slapped her while she was blowing me, and she bit the head off of the python.

After hearing the part about her biting the head off a python, I find myself wondering how she ended up in the wheelchair.

oh man. some people really are that stupid.

So these maladies of hers, how did she acquire them? Are they reptile inflicted?

maybe, like Ozzy with the bat, she thought it was a plastc toy python at the time.

Someone should egg the cop that wrote her a ticket for DUI.

I really fuckin hate cops.