A circle track racer apparently managed to get wasted in the pits, got black flagged, then got back on the track, crashed into someone else's car, and a cop at the track arrested him for DUI. This is insane. There's no shortage of drunks at a lot of circle track events, but they're supposed to stay in the stands...
News article link: http://newsandtribune.com/local/x703138275/Police-Speedway-driver-was-arrested-for-racing-drunk-in-Anderson
It's a repost from a while ago but... I still don't get how it's a DUI when it's not a legal car and it's not a public road.
It's felony reckless endangerment and he ought to do time.
you don't have to be on a public road (at least not here) ... you can get a DUI if you're sitting behind the wheel ... engine off ... in a parking lot (trying to sleep off the alcohol) if the key was in ignition ( remember the engine off part )
Some unimaginable jackass pulled a gun on another driver in the pits at the track here a few years ago, and track management then banned firearms from the premises. Of course a driver who is also a gun...enthusiast managed to have a problem with this.
One of my crew guys got a DUI on his own property, didn't even go on a public road. Or so he says...
In reply to GameboyRMH:
I noticed the "No firearms allowed on premises" sign at the entrance to Mid-Ohio and wondered what prompted it.
There has to be a story.
wbjones wrote: you don't have to be on a public road (at least not here) ... you can get a DUI if you're sitting behind the wheel ... engine off ... in a parking lot (trying to sleep off the alcohol) if the key was in ignition ( remember the engine off part )
Yeah, I've heard of an urban legend where a guy was out at a bar in January, bar closed, and he turned his car on in the parking lot, cranked the heat, and went to sleep in the back seat. Woke up to police officers giving him a DUI even though he was sleeping in the back.
Probably not true, but I could see it happening.
don't know about the back seat thing ... but no urban legend about being arrested if key in ignition and engine off ... and drunk, not me (though they missed many many chances back in the day ) but a close friend ..
A girl I knew in college got a DUI for sitting in the passenger seat with the engine running and the car parked. The driver had started it to get the heat going, and then left for one reason or another. Not an urban legend, happened to a brother's uncle's cousin's mother's friend kind of thing.
Seemed ridiculous to me.
In NY, being anywhere in the car with a key and no sober person is grounds for a DUI. At least that is what they say in the defensive driving class.
In California you can get a dui on a bike (with all the consequences for insurance and driving privilege that go along with it), the same as in a car. That really seems odd to me when you aren't even requited to have a license at all to ride a bike.
golf carts, horses, bikes, and any other mode of transportation (other than feet) here .... not sure about skates or skate boards
wbjones wrote: you don't have to be on a public road (at least not here) ... you can get a DUI if you're sitting behind the wheel ... engine off ... in a parking lot (trying to sleep off the alcohol) if the key was in ignition ( remember the engine off part )
I don't think most circle track cars have keys....
mtn wrote:wbjones wrote: you don't have to be on a public road (at least not here) ... you can get a DUI if you're sitting behind the wheel ... engine off ... in a parking lot (trying to sleep off the alcohol) if the key was in ignition ( remember the engine off part )Yeah, I've heard of an urban legend where a guy was out at a bar in January, bar closed, and he turned his car on in the parking lot, cranked the heat, and went to sleep in the back seat. Woke up to police officers giving him a DUI even though he was sleeping in the back. Probably not true, but I could see it happening.
Its called "Care and Control" under Ontario law. The focus is that you have the keys and actually might drive.
My dad and my brother showed up to pick us up at the train station on night and got in a fight. My brother took off and left dad in the truck drunk with the keys. My dad threw the keys in the back - unfortunately we had a 78 Suburban and they fell down under the spare tire. We all took a cab home that night (except my brother). 
wbjones wrote: golf carts, horses, bikes, and any other mode of transportation (other than feet) here .... not sure about skates or skate boards
I saw a drunk guy get arrested for a DUI on a horse.
I think you'd have to be moving the vehicle here to get a DUI here. If not, it could just be "Public Intoxication" or something similar.
NGTD wrote: Its called "Care and Control" under Ontario law. The focus is that you have the keys and actually might drive.
Hmmm... thought crimes. How lovely.
I saw it myself with people getting a DUI for being on a bike.
I do not know what this guy did to the police.. but after they got him for a DUI in his car, he took to riding his bicycle to the bar.. then he got a second DUI on the bike.. so he started to walk.
That was when they arrested him for public intoxication
Anti Stance and I talked with a local circle track guy a couple years ago, said he went from dirt to concrete because he didn't feel safe with the other racers on dirt: basically all of them were drunk
mad_machine wrote: I saw it myself with people getting a DUI for being on a bike. I do not know what this guy did to the police.. but after they got him for a DUI in his car, he took to riding his bicycle to the bar.. then he got a second DUI on the bike.. so he started to walk. That was when they arrested him for public intoxication
Sometimes, it's the cops trying to be good cops. My BIL is an ex-cop, and he was telling me how he would always see the same guys over and over for the same crimes. When a guy is a repeat offender that just won't learn, sometimes the cops will get on his case to just save him and others from himself.
Had a friend a while back that raced circle dirt track. He stopped racing when there was a big knife fight in the pits/paddock between a couple drunk racers and a tow truck driver that was also drunk.
93EXCivic wrote:wbjones wrote: golf carts, horses, bikes, and any other mode of transportation (other than feet) here .... not sure about skates or skate boardsI saw a drunk guy get arrested for a DUI on a horse.
In Canada you can get arrested for a DUI by a guy on a horse.
SnowMongoose wrote:93EXCivic wrote:In Canada you can get arrested for a DUI by a guy on a horse.wbjones wrote: golf carts, horses, bikes, and any other mode of transportation (other than feet) here .... not sure about skates or skate boardsI saw a drunk guy get arrested for a DUI on a horse.
I want to see a mountie vs. civilian horse chase.
wbjones wrote: golf carts, horses, bikes, and any other mode of transportation (other than feet) here .... not sure about skates or skate boards
my sister's buddy got one on his skateboard in chicago. he was standing on it as she and his brother had his arms on their shoulders rolling him home. cops got him for "operation of a toy vehicle" DUI. his brother got one on his bicycle.
In reply to ansonivan:
Most polite police chase in history?
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