Vt. police say Mass. man drove to jail drunk
Timothy Carney was sentenced April 6 to two days in jail for drunken driving in Vermont, but that was just the beginning of his legal troubles in the Green Mountain State.
The 42-year-old Sudbury man had been in court last week to answer charges that he was driving drunk at a police checkpoint in Vermont in September. A judge ordered him to report to jail that afternoon for the two-day sentence, but police said Carney was drunk again when he drove himself to the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, Vt., to serve his sentence a few hours later.
If you leave the courtroom where you were sentenced to jail and your first thought is, "I need a drink before I sit in jail for the weekend", you have a problem. If you get so wasted that the staff at the jail feels the need to report you to the police, you definitely have a problem. Not being able to stave off the cravings before you go to jail for DWI is a huge problem. Get help before you kill someone, Timothy.
In a way, though, you can almost hear the thought process rattling around what passes for a brain inside Mr. Carney's (aptly named) skull. Hell, if I'm going to have to spend the weekend in jail, might as well make it worthwhile! The fact that he's racking up his second drunken driving offense in less than a year is apparently meaningless - which tells you right there just how effective our drunk driving laws.
Then again, he was reporting to jail to serve a TWO DAY sentence - not like the laws are all that draconian now...
That is all.
2 comments:
I can understand the thought of jail making him want to drink, but who the hell wants to wake up in jail with a hangover?
That's not actually that unusual. What's really fun are the ones who show up drunk for court on their DWI charge - and admit that they drove there on a license that's been suspended for a previous DWI conviction.
Laws prevent nothing, they only declare unacceptable behaviour and set punishment.
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