Lady Arrested for Driving Motorized Shopping Cart While Drunk!  |
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 Yes, I live in a small town. So small in fact that one of the headline stories in today's paper reports a local arrest. Seems a lady was arrested for operating a motorized shopping cart while under the influence of alcohol when shopping inside the local WalMart. She was cited for failure of sobriety tests and not having her drivers license in possession. Wow. I did not realize one needed a drivers license to operate one of those carts. What are your thoughts on this arrest?
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1.  emeraldisle (8978) | 3 years ago |  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.
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| crazynurse (5743) | 3 years ago | That is what I thought, but the paper says they gave her a DUI and charged her also with license not in possession. We have law here that usually applies if one is just intoxicated in public, they arrest you for PI (public intoxication) not a DUI. The whole thing looked odd to me! I thought it should simply have been a PI, which sounds like what you are saying. | |
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 missybal (3738) | 3 years ago |  Exactly what I thought too and in the first response. Really it should be about public intoxication and I don't think that those elderly people all have a drivers license that are driving those electonic carts. That isn't right to have that as a law because what does driving one of those have to do with driving a car. My 84 year old grandma doesn't have a drivers license and she uses those carts. Is that illegal?
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2.  Dolcerina (2026) | 3 years ago |  it is funny.
She was probably totally drunk, that is why she must be arrested.
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| 3. villageanne (5888) | 3 years ago |  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
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| crazynurse (5743) | 3 years ago | This one isn't that small, but much smaller than what I was accustomed to before moving here. It is small enough though that this was one of the headlines! I can't imagine what she must have done to draw attention to herself. She must have been really disgustingly inebriated. | |
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4.  lauriefnp (4173) | 3 years ago |  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.
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| crazynurse (5743) | 3 years ago | Ha! I know. I've snickered about it all day. Surely she was disgustingly drunk or something to have drawn that much attention to herself. The paper didn't elaborate on what she had done with the cart. Yeah, it does bring up the issue of the motorized chairs ...especially those 'wheelarounds' or whatever they are called. I can just see someone going 'round a few too many times and being dizzy on top of inebriated! | |
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5.  Netsbridge (1050) | 3 years ago | 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. | |
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| 6. TerryZ (11466) | 3 years ago |  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.
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| 7. shywolf (3828) | 3 years ago |  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!^_^
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| crazynurse (5743) | 3 years ago | Yeah, makes me wonder if our cops needed a little more to do with their time! Or, maybe she was disgustingly drunk and knocking over displays or something. But to be arrested! Why not escorted out of the store..of course, I imagine they didn't want her to drive home. But, I wonder if she drove there in the first place or if someone was with her? So many questions! I wish there had been more details! Ha!
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| 8. moonshadow68 (429) | 3 years ago |  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!!!
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9.  MONKEYNUTS (139) | 3 years ago |  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
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| 10. ladymoonstone143 (1287) | 3 years ago |  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.
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| crazynurse (5743) | 3 years ago | OOOOH you might be on to something! Almost everyone here is "on the draw" meaning they have found a way to live off the government. There are frivilous lawsuits galore. Maybe she was trying to get hit by flying debris...to sue WalMart! Wow, we should make a movie out of this! Who can we get to play the parts?! Can I be the drunk lady?! | |
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