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Teh One Who Knocks
09-03-2020, 11:53 AM
The Smoking Gun


https://i.imgur.com/xPqQJMo.jpg

Meet Bounty Cheramy.

The 22-year-old Florida resident was arrested for drunk driving early Sunday after allegedly slamming his Mazda into an electronic sign cautioning motorists to “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.”

According to a probable cause affidavit, cops found Cheramy outside his car around 12:30 AM on the Tamiami Trail in Port Charlotte on the state’s Gulf Coast. Cheramy’s auto had sustained “heavy front-end damage,” reported a deputy who also noted that “the county sign board trailer had been struck.”

Cheramy told police that he was talking on the phone when he “suddenly struck something,” but was unsure “what he had struck or how he hit it.”

The wrecked electronic sign is pictured below.

Cheramy smelled of alcohol, was swaying back and forth, and could not focus on questions posed by a deputy, the affidavit alleges. Cheramy, who performed poorly on a series of field sobriety tests, took two breath tests, both of which recorded his blood alcohol content at twice the .08 legal limit.

Cheramy was charged with a pair of DUI counts and careless driving. He is scheduled for arraignment on September 16.

https://i.imgur.com/ZNJNlpF.jpg

Goofy
09-03-2020, 12:14 PM
:rofl:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-03-2020, 12:24 PM
These are the kinds of stories that you couldn't make up if you wanted to :lol:

FBD
09-03-2020, 12:30 PM
:lol: yep

lost in melb.
09-03-2020, 01:28 PM
your limit is .08? :shock:

Griffin
09-03-2020, 01:30 PM
Depends on location.
What's yours down under, .55?

Teh One Who Knocks
09-03-2020, 01:33 PM
your limit is .08? :shock:

.05 in some states.

lost in melb.
09-03-2020, 01:42 PM
Depends on location.
What's yours down under, .55?

.05


.05 in some states.

Ahh, varies by state

Teh One Who Knocks
09-03-2020, 01:51 PM
Ahh, varies by state

For example, Colorado has 2 limits. At .05 you can be charged with DWAI which is Driving While Ability Impaired, which while an alcohol offense, it's not as bad as driving drunk. But at .08 in Colorado, you will be charged with DWI which is Driving While Intoxicated and with that charge, you are going to be in serious trouble.

FBD
09-03-2020, 02:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjYqpiLEUq0

Hugh_Janus
09-03-2020, 08:19 PM
wow... you could just scrape a pass on a breath test over there and over here you'd be over twice the legal limit :shock:

Teh One Who Knocks
09-04-2020, 12:08 AM
Fun fact, for the longest time all the states (at least I think it was all of them) had the limit set at .1 for DWI

lost in melb.
09-04-2020, 01:36 AM
:shock:

FBD
09-04-2020, 02:28 PM
I dont see anything wrong with that :lol: