An Indiana man was arrested for driving his lawn mower while intoxicated. As reported in USA Today, Barry Ridge drove his riding lawnmower onto someone else’s lawn and started mowing the grass. He then headed down the road. Once stopped by the police, they observed his eyes to be “glassy” and gave him a breath test. He registered .189%. The truly amazing fact is that this is the second time Ridge has been arrested for driving his lawnmower while under ... Read More »
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The Chicago Tribune reported on February 27th that a former, now retired, Des Plains police commander accused of padding DUI arrests to obtain federal grant money was arraigned in federal court. According to the report, Timothy Veit, 55, the retired police commander involved, purportedly had falsely inflated DUI arrest numbers by 122 arrests over the three year period from 2009 to 2012 to “fraudulently obtain” $132,893 in grant money from the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Veit allegedly went so far in ... Read More »
“Mixing Alcohol with Diet Soda May Make You Drunker”
This is the title of a new NPR report about a recent study done on the effects of mixing alcohol with diet soda rather than sugared soda. Author Allison Aubrey posted the following information on the NPR “insider’s blog:” “Alcohol, consumed with a diet mixer, results in higher (BrAC) Breath Alcohol Concentrations as compared to the same amount of alcohol consumed with a sugar-sweetened mixer,” says Cecile Marczinski, a cognitive psychologist who authored the new study. Why? Turns out that sugar ... Read More »