Gianna Vigliotti of Manhasset, New York in this story courtesy of Newsday? This 17 year old girl gets nabbed for drunk driving (and underage drinking), and rather than just own up to it when she's clearly busted--her blood-alcohol level was 0.15, or almost twice the legal limit of 0.08--she spins a yarn about how she got drunk simply by kissing a drunk guy!
After the 17-year-old from Glen Cove recorded a .15 percent blood-alcohol level in a portable breath test - nearly the twice the legal limit of .08 percent - she told the officer who pulled her over, "I didn't drink! I was kissing a boy who was drunk," according to the police report.Well that lie didn't take, and she's pleaded guilty and is currently awaiting trial.
It made no difference to Officer Michael Pallazzo whether Vigliotti's speech was slurred from smooching or from swigging. When he found four full beer bottles under the passenger seat of her Volkswagen and an empty beer can in her purse, he placed her under arrest, court documents said.
Vigliotti's attorney, Dennis Lemke of Mineola, said his client and her family are devastated by the charge.Well did you ever stop to think that had your client not offered up the stupidest excuse ever heard by man, she might not have had it publicized all around the country? Hell, thirty years from now, potential employers and co-workers are going to Google her name and find this shining example of how really bad her judgment and integrity are. Sheesh!
"To now have it publicized is not only embarrassing, but demeaning as well," he said.
This is what a police mug shot of a drunk, lying teen looks like. Nice job, parents. And you other kids...if you drive drunk, you could have your picture up here, too...if you're lucky enough to survive and not kill someone else, that is.
Kathleen Rice, the Nassau County District Attorney, announced in advance that the NCPD would be doing a crackdown on drunk drivers for Memorial Day weekend; that those arrested for drunken driving would have their pictures pasted up on the Internet for all to see; and that the news media was welcome, nay, encouraged, to further publicize the names, addresses and photos of the suspects. Ms. Rice's announcement was given significant publicity.
ReplyDeleteMost of the arrestees (including Gianna Vigliotti) are residents of Nassau County, and the remaining arrestees live either in Suffolk County or in Queens County, the two counties contiguous to Nassau. It is unlikely that of Ms. Rice's pre-Memorial Day publicity could have totally evaded anyone in the region who was not either comatose or incarcerated underground without any contact with the outside world.
The publication of the fact of Gianna's arrest may well be embarrassing and demeaning and devastating, but the arrest was extremely foreseeable.
If Gianna can rack up a 0.15 BAC score by kissing a drunk guy, then I shudder to imagine what this guy's own BAC score was.
I don't think this is so far fetched. I mean, come on, if you can get pregnant just by sitting on a toilet seat...
ReplyDeleteDumb kid. I hate drunk drivers! With a passion. I am the one victim that managed to survive after being hit by a drunk driver. He died on impact. For once, I beat the odds and did not become a statistic as so often victims do. I do so hate drunk drivers!!
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