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State Chapters => Florida => Topic started by: libertybele on July 30, 2022, 10:58:14 pm
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Only at Walmart. Driving under the influence. :silly:
He was ‘swerving’ on his scooter at a Florida Walmart. Then cops looked in his basket
A trip to the store had an unfortunate outcome for a shopper on the Space Coast of Florida.
According to an arrest affidavit from the Melbourne Police Department, officers responded to a local Walmart around 10 a.m. Sunday about an “intoxicated male on a motorized scooter.”
Officers encountered the shopper, later identified as Aaron Gregory, 39, “swerving” in the aisles, running into shelves and “creating a danger” to others, the report says.
Footage from the store’s security cameras showed the man zooming around, knocking into merchandise and nearly hitting people.
When the man finally put on the brakes, his open backpack in the scooter’s basket contained an open bottle of Smirnoff vodka that was “two-thirds missing,” according to the complaint.
The report goes on to say that Gregory had “glassy eyes” and “a distinct odor of alcohol emanating from his person.”.................
https://www.yahoo.com/news/swerving-scooter-florida-walmart-then-160106225.html
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Shouldn't this have been posted in the "Florida Man" thread?
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I wanna see the video... bet that's a hoot..
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Shouldn't this have been posted in the "Florida Man" thread?
Na-w... If two-thirds of a fifth put him out, he hardly qualifies :whistle: :smokin:
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Only at Walmart. Driving under the influence. :silly:
BTW, I DO have a buddy who got a DUI on a garden tractor. And yes, he already lost his license to drive a car to DUI...
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Shouldn't this have been posted in the "Florida Man" thread?
Probably -- but I got the 'Florida' category correct. :whistle:
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BTW, I DO have a buddy who got a DUI on a garden tractor. And yes, he already lost his license to drive a car to DUI...
Garden tractor? :rolling:
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Garden tractor? :rolling:
George Jones
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George Jones
Proving the long redneck tradition. :beer:
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BTW, I DO have a buddy who got a DUI on a garden tractor. And yes, he already lost his license to drive a car to DUI...
Heck, I know guys who got one on a bicycle, and one who got one on a mule. :shrug: (The mule knew the way home, and was smart enough to stay out of traffic.)
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Heck, I know guys who got one on a bicycle, and one who got one on a mule. :shrug: (The mule knew the way home, and was smart enough to stay out of traffic.)
I have rode a horse back to camp, drunk and near passing out, on more than one occasion... Also been sicker than a dog and had the horse bring me home when I had no ability... been snow blinded and the dog got me back...
A conveyance with actual intelligence, not AI... and old skool trumps science yet again. :beer:
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I have rode a horse back to camp, drunk and near passing out, on more than one occasion... Also been sicker than a dog and had the horse bring me home when I had no ability... been snow blinded and the dog got me back...
A conveyance with actual intelligence, not AI... and old skool trumps science yet again. :beer:
Yeah, but they didn't make the mule take a breathalyzer test... only the rider. :shrug:
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Yeah, but they didn't make the mule take a breathalyzer test... only the rider. :shrug:
That ain't no joke! There ain't a horse alive that don't like his beer (mules included)... And I have got sh*t faced with my horse upon occasion.
I had a blue gray appy that would take a can and pop it like a grape and guzzle... Had to be careful of that horse... He knew them beers were in coolers and he would assault any cooler he came across...
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Heck, I know guys who got one on a bicycle, and one who got one on a mule. :shrug: (The mule knew the way home, and was smart enough to stay out of traffic.)
@Smokin Joe
Reminded me of a friend of many years ago whose friends got drunk at his high school graduation. He had never drank before because his father was a raging drunk,and mean to boot.
He stayed drunk for the next few years,and "yes,he WAS the one that got a ticket for riding his bicycle down the road while drinking a beer,and having the other 5 hanging off his handlebars as he rode.
Unlike his father,he was not mean to anyone but himself.
He finally married a fat,ugly girl when he was in his early 20's,and damned if she didn't get him to stop drinking. Last I heard about him,they had a couple of kids and he had been working with the local power company ever since he sobered up. By then he may have even had enough time in with them to qualify for retirement,and was still sober.
That sort of thing almost never happens,but damned if it didn't happen for him,and I am glad it did. One of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet when he was sober.
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Shouldn't this have been posted in the "Florida Man" thread?
Maybe it was Pelosi's husband?
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Maybe it was Pelosi's husband?
Is there a man alive who, if married to Nancy, wouldn't be in a constant state of inebriation?
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Is there a man alive who, if married to Nancy, wouldn't be in a constant state of inebriation?
A solid point that he might have made to the arresting officers
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I wanna see the video... bet that's a hoot..
:thumbsup:
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@Smokin Joe
Reminded me of a friend of many years ago whose friends got drunk at his high school graduation. He had never drank before because his father was a raging drunk,and mean to boot.
He stayed drunk for the next few years,and "yes,he WAS the one that got a ticket for riding his bicycle down the road while drinking a beer,and having the other 5 hanging off his handlebars as he rode.
Unlike his father,he was not mean to anyone but himself.
He finally married a fat,ugly girl when he was in his early 20's,and damned if she didn't get him to stop drinking. Last I heard about him,they had a couple of kids and he had been working with the local power company ever since he sobered up. By then he may have even had enough time in with them to qualify for retirement,and was still sober.
That sort of thing almost never happens,but damned if it didn't happen for him,and I am glad it did. One of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet when he was sober.
It doesn't happen often, but it is good to see some folks pull up before they crash and burn.
Sometimes all they need is that 'talk' from someone who matters, sometimes it's the love of a woman whose personality matters a hell of a lot more than her looks, and a chance to do better without the almost permanent finger wagging and flapping lips that say they'll never change and would throw the kid away to be right.
I have seen one grandson do that, although I, at one point asked him to leave the house (he was just visiting) and not come back until he was clean. Grandma's was the family nexus, the 'lifeboat', and that put him in tears, but he did. I think that was his epiphany.
Now he has his own business and is doing well, cleaned up. Never stopped loving my grandson, but I had to be hard on him to get that to happen. Now, I'm proud of him.
You might not put much stock in it, but a lot of prayers went up for that boy (especially after I told him to leave), and I think it helped a lot.