# John Kerry charged with DUI **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393 "2004-09-28T00:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/1 "2004-09-28T00:56:49Z")
[The title says it all.](http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=138943&command=displayContent&sourceNode=138769&contentPK=11016462) Apparently a former girlfriend was involved as she purchased the beer he drank before leaving the pub and being arrested. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/2 "2004-09-28T01:00:28Z")
So what? Winston Churchill, Ullysses Grant, Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush and many many many others have been drunk at one time or another too. What’s your point? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/3 "2004-09-28T01:00:29Z")
:dubious: What, pray tell, are you pitting? ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/4 "2004-09-28T01:00:37Z")
Ba-doom-tish. Spectacularly lame OP, congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/5 "2004-09-28T01:04:05Z")
**danceswithcats** has evidently graduated from the Fox News school of Journalism Integritude;) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/6 "2004-09-28T01:04:32Z")
I suspect people aren’t following the link, or if they are, they aren’t aware that the presidential candidate’s initials are JFK. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/7 "2004-09-28T01:06:03Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > [The title says it all.](http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=138943&command=displayContent&sourceNode=138769&contentPK=11016462) > > Apparently a former girlfriend was involved as she purchased the beer he drank before leaving the pub and being arrested. 😉 This is what passes for wit amongst Bushoviks? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/8 "2004-09-28T01:06:31Z")
“Drink driving”? 😕 I thought it was a typo, the first time, but then it appeared again: > [@](#): > > he admitted drink driving along Merrywalks in Stroud on August 11. > > [snip] > > The court heard that Kerry had be the subject of a previous ban for drink driving in 1996. Is this a Briticism? A phrase peculiar to Gloucestershire? Although that “had be” has me wondering if perhaps the compositor was guilty of drink writing. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/9 "2004-09-28T01:06:37Z")
The Good, The Bad, and The _Whoosh_ed. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/10 "2004-09-28T01:07:55Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > I suspect people aren’t following the link, or if they are, they aren’t aware that the presidential candidate’s initials are JFK. I think it’s more worrying that John Kerry is pretending to be 42 years old, and that he has a girlfriend in South Gloucestershire. Does Teresa know about this? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/11 "2004-09-28T01:09:16Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I think it’s more worrying that John Kerry is pretending to be 42 years old, and that he has a girlfriend in South Gloucestershire. Does Teresa know about this? And “self-employed contract cleaner.” What’s that, like a hired killer? I bet he’s the one that knocked off Vince Foster! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/12 "2004-09-28T01:13:02Z")
Amidst the raging regarding the upcoming election, it was an attempt to introduce the notion that things are not always what they seem at first glance. Apparently that mission failed. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/13 "2004-09-28T01:14:31Z")
A contract cleaner? I saw a movie once about a cleaner. His job was to “tidy up the loose ends” if the first hitman screwed up. Kill the mark, the hitman, and ALL possible witnesses (if any). A very bad dude. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/14 "2004-09-28T01:19:08Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > The Good, The Bad, and The _Whoosh_ed. You’re right. > [@Bush](#): > > "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, ‘What did he say?’’ —George W. Bush, Beaverton, Oregon, Aug. 13, 2004 ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/15 "2004-09-28T01:26:18Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > You’re right… You really do have some sort of GWB fetish, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-kerry-charged-with-dui/266393/16 "2004-09-28T01:33:03Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Amidst the raging regarding the upcoming election, it was an attempt to introduce the notion that things are not always what they seem at first glance. Apparently that mission failed. My apologies. In fact, this seems to be rather trollish. Don’t make a deceptive thread title again. Lynn For the Straight Dope