Cedric Benson arrested (and now released)

[Daseal]

Because the keys were in the ignition. He was looking at the motor or something similar. I had an underage possession of alcohol and they made me go to a DUI class with other folks. While a majority were typical DUI cases, most of them were people too poor to fight it. The girl that blew a .06 and her blood test showed .01 -- DUI. The guy who was mowing his lawn with a beer. You know that you're on state property within 10 feet of the highway? Got a DUI mowing his yard.

Let's stop kidding ourselves. The police's job has turned from concentrating on safety and protection and moved to making money. The problem is so many laws are ambiguous. There's no 'law' that says .08 or over and you're drunk. It's a suggestion, you can be charged for DUI whenever if the cop wants to, and it's all about if you have the financial means to fight such a charge. The boat thing IS very rare, but it can happen.

Oddly enough, I did my paper for VASAP about what a terrible organization MADD is and the teacher praised me for it. MADD lies horribly in their statistics (if you get in an accident on the way home from the grocery store with a 6 pack of beer in your trunk, that's alcohol related accident in their opinion), the person who founded MADD left because of how they bastardized her ideas, etc.
[this information all from VASAP]

[LMsexyAO]

Originally Posted by Daseal

Because the keys were in the ignition. He was looking at the motor or something similar. I had an underage possession of alcohol and they made me go to a DUI class with other folks. While a majority were typical DUI cases, most of them were people too poor to fight it. The girl that blew a .06 and her blood test showed .01 -- DUI. The guy who was mowing his lawn with a beer. You know that you're on state property within 10 feet of the highway? Got a DUI mowing his yard.

Let's stop kidding ourselves. The police's job has turned from concentrating on safety and protection and moved to making money. The problem is so many laws are ambiguous. There's no 'law' that says .08 or over and you're drunk. It's a suggestion, you can be charged for DUI whenever if the cop wants to, and it's all about if you have the financial means to fight such a charge. The boat thing IS very rare, but it can happen.

Oddly enough, I did my paper for VASAP about what a terrible organization MADD is and the teacher praised me for it. MADD lies horribly in their statistics (if you get in an accident on the way home from the grocery store with a 6 pack of beer in your trunk, that's alcohol related accident in their opinion), the person who founded MADD left because of how they bastardized her ideas, etc.
[this information all from VASAP]

I agree completely, my roommate was making a phone call in front of a party (while being stone-cold sober) and a cop came running at him from the street causing my friend to drop his cup and put his hands up. The cop then charged him with littering... on private property.

[SeanTaylor21]

ESPN - Bears' Benson says BWI, resisting arrest charges unfounded - NFL

Bears' Benson says BWI, resisting arrest charges unfounded

Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson was charged with boating while intoxicated after failing a sobriety test and resisting arrest that required officers to use pepper spray before dragging him ashore Saturday night, according to police.

If found guilty, Benson faces up to six months in jail and $2,000 for each class B misdemeanor. No court date has been set. In Texas, a BWI charge carries the same weight as a DWI.

The former Texas Longhorn, however, said he was not drunk and did not resist arrest.

"I was not intoxicated," Benson told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There was alcohol on the boat and others were enjoying themselves, but I wasn't drunk."

I wonder if he is telling the truth or not?