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03/23/09

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My Confirmation sponsor got pulled over for a DUI on her way home from the church. They let her off with a warning when she said where she was coming from. True story. Sign of failed catholic future for me? Seems so.
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dj_chick
03/23/09

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This was on the news here... they were on their way from the ceremony to the reception.

a) How much did you have to drink to say "I do"?

b) No one offered to be your DD? I get that not everyone can afford a limo, but can't someone in the wedding party help out?

I feel bad for them. I really do. It had been all over the news that it was going to be a "no breathalyzer refusal" weekend, and that cops were going to be out all over the place. I'm sure it was humiliating. Maybe next time they'll plan better. Or call a cab...
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devilchyld22
03/23/09

@dj_chick: "they were on their way from the ceremony to the reception."

HAHAHAHA

This is why my fiance says I'm not allowed to start drinking until the reception.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
03/23/09

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Interesting that the groom's family bailed him out, but left Jade to spend the night in jail. Not fans of the new daughter-in-law I take it?
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samethingwedoeverynightpinky
03/23/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: Yeah, that seems like a worse omen than the actual arrest.
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lalaland13
03/23/09

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I like to think of this sort of thing happening to the people who do those Bridezilla shows. I can see it after they make bail: "You made me drink by not listening! You stepped on my dress and it's all your fault!"
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Sister Jukebox
03/23/09

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A DUI as a wedding present is just a lovely idea but how do you wrap it? /sarcasm/

I was at a conference at a posh hotel in Palm Springs a few years back where there was a wedding. We saw the party arrive in their finery at the beginning of the night on our way out for dinner. Later when we were headed back to our rooms, the bride was screaming like a lunatic, there were two police officers restraining guys in tuxes, and various other people hollering. That's one heck of a wedding. What a way to start your married life.
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Triphena
03/23/09

@Sister Jukebox: A friend of mine was in a wedding for a girl she didn't know. The bride was a co-worker-friend of one of her friends and didn't have enough friends to be in her own party to match her husband's to be groomsmen- all 3 of them. Anyway, during the wedding reception (where everyone toasted the happy couple with Budweisers in Coozis stamped with "Sue and John 12/3/03" or whatever), the groom went and smoked a joint with one of his friends and she went ballistic, called her ex-boyfriend, and left the reception screaming that she wanted a divorce before she roared off on the back of the ex's Harley.
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JinxyMcDeath
03/23/09

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I think she checked her dignity when she got wasted and got up in a cops face...thus making pointing and laughing at her is fair game. Seriously. It's not like they made her strip or anything. They pointed and laughed at a stupid woman and her stupid husband who broke the law on their wedding day. Next time she should drink less...
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femputer
03/23/09

@JinxyMcDeath: I don't know...it is the officers' word over hers that she was unruly. Just looking at the wrong cop sideways can get you a quick ticket to the clink. Yes, her husband should NOT have been driving, but we really don't know what she did. She could have just looked trashed to get that charge, it sounds like.
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JinxyMcDeath
03/23/09

@bdangles does not fempute: You're just speculating though.
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Triphena
03/23/09

@JinxyMcDeath: Yeah, I feel the same way.
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femputer
03/23/09

@JinxyMcDeath: Yes, yes I am. It is specualtion that she "got in their faces," too. As someone who has read more than one falsified police report, I know speculation is the name of the game.
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5ft of fury
03/23/09

@JinxyMcDeath: We read enough stories on here and in the general media about police routinely falsifying reports and having an anything goes attitude, so I think that unless you have video, BAC results or other substantial data it's all just speculation and your word against a police officer's (guess who'll win that one).
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femputer
03/23/09

@5ft of fury: exaaaaactly.
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JinxyMcDeath
03/23/09

@5ft of fury: I find it interesting that you would rather believe a woman who got trashed with her drunk-driving husband than a police officer who arrested her and her husband. Are you really that anti-police?

And I say this as a prior criminal defense attorney...police fuck up...but we shouldn't ASSUME they did.
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NefariousNewt
03/23/09

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The worst part: no conjugal visit.
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NefariousNewt
03/23/09

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Jade,

I know you're mad, but you have to admit -- it was your fault for being there in the first place. You let your new husband drive drunk, and you gave the cops a hard time. Admittedly, the cops should not have humiliated you in jail, but a couple of better decisions and that never would have happened.

-- NN
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lalaland13
03/23/09

@NefariousNewt: I wonder what she said to the cop? If she pulled the "it's our wedding day, how dare you?" card, hell, I would have wanted to do a citizen's arrest. I hate that attitude of entitlement.
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NefariousNewt
03/23/09

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A match made in Vegas, eh?
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Leucadia
03/23/09

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I'm sorry she got laughed at in her wedding dress. No sympathy whatsoever for DUI arrests, though. More people should be arrested for that.
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Flackette Goes Retro
03/23/09

@Leucadia: Yeah, I have very little sympathy here. Two drunk people, one of them driving and endangering others? I'd like to do more than point and laugh.
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badmutha
03/23/09

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A bad omen? I am guessing this was just another night for these two. Who gets shit faced at YOUR OWN WEDDING!? How incredibly disrespectful to your family, friends, and wedding party members, many of whom spent a great deal of money to share this special day with you. Way to treat it special.

And yes, I am being judgemental, because I am wearing my judgy pants today, ant they feel fine.
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kanachick
03/23/09

@badmutha: Who doesn't get drunk at their wedding? Or am I being too Canadian?
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devilchyld22
03/23/09

@kanachick: I'm getting married in April and you better f'in believe I'm getting completely smashed.

It's a celebration!
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aspiringexpatriate
03/23/09

@kanachick: I don't really know of anyone who doesn't get smashed at their wedding. I mean, not shitfaced stumbling drunk before the speeches, but you know, a good healthy above the limit toasted. But by the end of the night the shitfaced happens.
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Gumbina80
03/23/09

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Will they add their mugshots to their wedding album?
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devilchyld22
03/23/09

@Gumbina80: If it were my fiance and I, it'd be our wedding album cover.
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Santos L Halper
03/23/09

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The very best part of the story is that she filed a complaint against the authorities essentially because they took that picture you see above. THAT was apparently the worst part of her night.
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Flackette Goes Retro
03/23/09

@SantosLHalper: A picture taken in a public place, no less. There is no expectation of privacy when arrested.
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hortense
03/23/09

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It is kind of icky, though, if, as she alleges, the cops were opening the cell door to point her out to other prisoners.
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hortense
03/23/09

@hortense: I meant "other jailers." Not prisoners. Sorry.
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devilchyld22
03/23/09

@hortense:

Yeah, that I didn't think was funny.

Not cool at all.
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Santos L Halper
03/23/09

@hortense: The complaint filed for the picture is a little silly, but that IS kind of creepy. I thought they were pointing her out to the other jail employees, though, not that it makes much of a difference.
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JoaquinPhoenix's Hairstylist
03/23/09

@hortense: that is really mean. people make mistakes they don't need to be humiliated.

I was pulled over for DWI when I was 18 and after I was talking to the original cop suddenly three other cop cars showed up. They all just kinda gathered around watching for some reason? Anyways, a couple of them were laughing because I was visibly crying. I was 18! God! What do you expect me to do?
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femputer
03/23/09

@JoaquinPhoenix's Hairstylist: dittodittoditto. Bdangles has been detained from time to time; it is JUST like that: other cops pull up and peek in the back to check out the nice "catch" the arresting officers made. It is awful. Ha ha - look! A PYT in cuffs! Hysterical!
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femputer
03/23/09

@bdangles does not fempute: And not to mention the poor thing then had to attempt to urinate in that dress in a probably open-to-all-jailers'-eyes cell (there is usually just a can in a corner - if you don't make a quick cell posse to block you, you are peeing for EVERYONE to see. And if anyone here has ever been a bridesmaid, you KNOW the bride needs help hiking up the dress to pee.
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Flackette Goes Retro
03/23/09

@hortense: Still, I would be more embarrassed to have landed myself in there on my wedding night than by any guffaws directed my way by jailers.I mean, we're all reading about it and laughing, so I'm sure the jail employees had the same reaction. Or maybe I'm just jaded to this stuff by having an entire family employed in various part of the legal and criminal justice system. Pointing and laughing, while not professional, is not exactly abusive. And as she was in a public place, taking a photo was fair game. Arrests are not private matters like, for example, health care - they go into public record.
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YourScreenplaySucks
03/23/09

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Bad omen? This sounds like a rip-roaring start to a lively, fun life together! Such a pessimist Megan - the way I see it, this vodka glass is half full.
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