Lady Arrested for Driving Motorized Shopping Cart While Drunk!   

Well they can get her for being intoxicated in puplic if she is impaired. It wouldn't have mattered if she was walking or in a motorized cart like that for that charge. However the not having her drivers license on her if she wasn't driving a car at all they will find that one will be dismissed. You don't have to have your license on you if you are not driving a car.

it is funny.
She was probably totally drunk, that is why she must be arrested.

LOL I can see the sobriety test but I have never heard of having to have a drivers license to drive a motorized cart. LOL
I live in a small town also. We have one traffic light and it is not needed. It used to be a 3 way stop and there was never a wreck there that i knew of but ..they wanted to have at least one traffic light in the county. So now we have one traffic light in the county. LOL

This is too funny! You must live in a really small town! I thought that a driver's license was for the operation of a car, and never considered that the law would classify a motorized shopping cart as a "motor vehicle". She'll be able to fight that one, and I'm sure it will be dropped; it will just give the government one more law to amend. But she should still be cited for public intoxication. I wonder what she did to call attention to herself? Did she run someone over or knock down a display?

This makes me wonder if there are any laws on the books for operating those motorized scooters that you see the elderly people getting- we've all seen the TV ads, I'm sure. Do you think that they have laws to determine safe use of them? After all, they drive them on sidewalks and in stores and malls, also.

As for the intoxication part of it, that is a different issue all together - seeing one can be easily cited for public intoxication.

As for the DUI, if some law requires that people have DL in order to operate a store motorized-cart and the store did not make this requirement known to the shoppers, then I think the lady needs to get an attorney to help her go after the store.

And as per ID, one can be cited for failure to ID in the USA, regardless of the incident that led to ID being asked.

You dont need your license for that because alot of people that use them dont have a license. I think it is kinda funny thou.

That seems a little bit harsh, to me. I can see her getting in trouble, but getting _arrested_ over it? I also didn't realize that one was supposed to have their driver's liscence in order to operate one of those! Oh my gosh. My mother rides on those carts a lot because she gets very tired walking long distances and she generally has to use Crutches to get around if she is going to walk a long distance. So she likes to use those motorized shopping carts. I think that I had better let her know about this so that she will make sure to have her liscence with her! :/ Not that she would ever be drunk and driving one, lol.. but still. Thanks for sharing! ^_^

Actually, I think the failure to have her ID could get her in more trouble than the DUI...'cause I'm not sure they can make a DUI stick. But under the Patriot Act, you have to present ID to a police official if asked for it.
I think there must be a lot more to the story if the police charged her with DUI instead of public intoxication, like maybe she was beligerent to police or store officials. Still, it's a great story!!!

hi crazynurse.
i didn't realise you needed a license for a cart either.
learn something new everyday!
sounds quite funny being under the influence of alcohol on a shopping cart but i suppose it could be dangerous if she drove into a stack of bottles or something lol.
think it is going a bit too far to arrest her, maybe a warning would suffice

I guess the local police just want her to reconsider the next time she gets into a motorized cart if she had been drinking. Or probably the management at the local Walmart wanted more penalty other than public intoxication. Coz on the other hand, if that lady had bumped her motorized cart in any corner of Walmart and something fell on her or whatever....she can sue Walmart. You know these crazy lawsuits nowadays. So, probably that arrest might be a warning to anybody thinking of getting into that motorized cart drunk while shopping.