LEO jargon. Might be unique to my area.
Beazle neck is an old crabby bitch that has a huge tuft of skin that connects her double chin to her throat. It waddles while she’s ranting and raving. Kind of a senior citizen version of “Karen”. Tends to drive too slow in the left lane with her face pushed up against the windshield because she can’t see for shit even though she’s squinting through 3 inch glasses. Then she bitches when you pass her going 12 in a 40.
She’s even crabbier when she’s been drinking.
Another is a Whore Buck. This is an old geezer who is a player at the retirement home. Whenever you pull him over for going to slow he always has a different old hen in the car with him. Tends to wear a white belt and white leather shoes (yes, the kind cousin Eddie bought Clark in the movie “vacation”). He actually has several old ladies on the hook fighting over him. He typically doesn’t associate with Beazle necks, which may be why she’s so crabby. He doesn’t have the wealth or material goods he claims to. He’s completely full of shit in more ways than one.
I think trying home confinement with an ankle monitor is fine, as a first step. While there is some risk he breaks tether, keep in mind once you break tether you’re going to get arrested fairly quickly, and they can make his home confinement stipulation basically zero tolerance, so if he is caught trying to get to the liquor store he’ll be heading to prison. It’s generally troublesome to jail a 75 year old for life, because you’re basically creating a nursing home situation for the state and I think it’s reasonable to try home confinement to avoid that.
From another article two years ago on the same guy [bolding mine] after the 17th arrest.
Senior deputy prosecuting attorney Amy Freedheim wrote in charging documents that Benson is “incredibly dangerous to the community,” habitually drives while impaired when he’s not in custody and has failed to appear in court 50 times since 1985.
“He refuses to follow orders by the courts or Department of Licensing. He drives without an (ignition interlock device) and without any valid license or liability insurance,” she wrote. “… Several of his DUI crimes involve collisions. The community remains unsafe. He does not care.”
@pkbites, ageism and misogyny are never a good approach when posting, even if it is merely implied with an insult such as “beazle neck.” Moreover, this entire dialogue is off topic and adding nothing to the subject of discussion.
All, please refrain from further comment along these lines.
Sucks for him that he’s old, but a ten year sentence wouldn’t be out of line considering the offense, and chances are the problem will resolve it’s self.
Public transportation in much of the country does suck - but people in NYC still drive drunk and have multiple drunken driving convictions even though there are taxis and good public transportation that runs 24/7. It doesn’t matter how easy treatment is to access, how many different types of treatment are available or how available public transportation is. This man might not even need treatment strictly speaking - there are plenty of people on the road who don’t have a drinking problem. Instead , they have a driving problem. They do not have any of the hallmarks of alcohol abuse. They can go through any list of questions or diagnostic checklists and answer “no” to every question unless there is specifically one about drinking and driving ( and there often isn’t. ) These are the people DWI impact panels seek to reach - and they are often effective for normal people, who maybe just didn’t quite realize the devastation a drunk driver can cause.
But a 75 year old man with 17 DUI convictions who had been driving without a valid license for 20 years when he crashed into an oncoming vehicle overnight in Seattle ( a city which does have good public transportation) sounds to me like the type of person whose drinking problem ( if he has one) isn’t the biggest issue. The bigger issue is that it seems he just doesn’t care that it’s dangerous to drive after he’s been drinking or that he may injure or kill someone- and there really isn’t any treatment for that.
Japan was having problems with DUIs and they decided to make it serious.
For any DUI that causes injury or death there was jail or prison time, even if it was the driver’s first SUI and even if the BAC was low. They also increased the amount of fines and jail time for all DUI offences.
Sorry, no - old age should not be an automatic get-out-of-jail card.
It’s not like there aren’t already old people in prison. @Qadgop_the_Mercotan has mentioned treating old geezers in his prison system, as well as having prisoners in hospice care. Why should this old fart get any better treatment?
Yup. The passengers can be subject to the same punishments as the driver.
This law was made because many bosses were making their subordinates drink with them, and and then making the subordinates drive them home. The drunk boss wouldn’t be driving so he (and almost always he) would be fine, but the subordinate couldn’t refuse in Japanese society. Making the passengers face the same punishment drastically reduced this practice.
The rational for zero tolerance for all DUI was that the potential for accidents which killed or injured others was simply too high so even though the person may not have caused an accident on that particular ride, they very well could have.
Japan also have less tolerance for accidences which cause injuries or deaths even those not related to alcohol.
Yeah that’s consistent with my impression of their culture. “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do it” just doesn’t matter there. They don’t give a shit about your intentions - just don’t be an irresponsible dumbass in the first place and all will be well.
Home confinement isn’t get out of jail free, it’s just giving the State a lower cost way to take an elderly person off the roads. If he violates his tether he can be placed in prison.