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Woman En Route to Her Wedding Arrested for DUI

Threegoofs said:
Woman En Route to Her Wedding Arrested for DUI: Police


A woman was arrested for driving under the influence -- on the way to her wedding.

Marana Police arrested the bride-to-be Monday morning outside of Tuscon, Arizona, after a three-car collision. One person was injured.

Sgt. Chriswell Scott tweeted a photo of the woman about to get in the police car and wrote, "Don’t drive impaired, till death do we part doesn’t need any help."

Scott said the bride-to-be was released later Monday.
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Sounds hoaxy to me. A woman was arrested for sure, but that's no wedding dress, and I'm guessing the cop who tweeted thought it was.
 
calamity said:
It's not libel. She was arrested for DUI. Fact.
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Arrest doesn’t mean guilty though. It could be argued that the nature of the tweet implied she was definitely guilty so if it turned out not to be the case, especially if it was following error or negligence of the officer involved, the legality of the tweet could be questioned. I’d certainly say it’s professionally and morally questionable for officers to be posting identifiable images of suspects in this context.
 
It's looks like a wedding dress to me. If she had to have a few drinks before the ceremony, and no friends to drive her there, hmm.
 
Rosie1 said:
It's looks like a wedding dress to me. If she had to have a few drinks before the ceremony, and no friends to drive her there, hmm.
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Uber is your friend
 
Threegoofs said:
The story gets even weirder[emoji33]

Attorney claims hoax, but Marana police stand by 'DUI bride' story | Local news | tucson.com


Her lawyers say it’s a ‘hoax’ and she’s not even engaged- and that her dress was a sundress.

The police have her full story on tape from their body cams.

Sounds like she was trying to make up a sob story to get out of a DUI to me...
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“Ms. Young is not getting married nor is she even engaged,”
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while dressed in white, and perhaps uttering something in her drunken state of mind, probably means she should get a different lawyer, because she doesn't even have an upcoming nuptial for an excuse.
The woman was driving drunk, and by doing so, she risked the lives of countless others. Shame is on her, not the cops.
 
Northern Light said:
Um... Vancouver has way bigger problems than you mention... like no affordable housing (crappiest tear-down house is selling for almost $700,000); the city's architectural heritage is being obliterated to build expensive condos that are just used to park the money of rich foreigners; people are crammed into group living at $700+ for just a room.

Basically you have to be wealthy to live there comfortably now. I'm so glad I left Vancouver when I did and moved to the country years ago after getting married, we are much happier here. A good friend of mine is an MD in Vancouver. Her husband is a computer tech person for Amazon. They can't find affordable childcare anywhere in the city yet one of them can't be stay at home because then they won't be able to afford to live. So they are leaving Vancouver for Alberta. These are white collar people. Families are leaving in droves and schools are being closed down, yet condos are being built at lightning speed... so they can stand empty. Big money has decimated the place.

Not to mention the art scene is dead. All the artists left and all the affordable artist spaces are gone. Everything has been gutted so that people can play real estate like they do the stock market. It's really, really sad.
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I guess you chose NOT to read "There are big problems.

I never said real estate isn't an issue...it's because too many people want to live here, it's that much of a **** hole.

If you want to run down my city go for it. No matter what it still beats anything Ontario of Quebec can offer.,


Wn't be talking to you much. Seems you have some anger about Vancouver. Jealous?

Good bye
 
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HonestJoe said:
I don’t have issues with them posting about crimes and other incidents for that purpose but I would question them publishing identifiable images of suspects in relation to them, clearly implying unconditional guilt. It’s perfectly possible that the woman turns out to have been entirely innocent one way or another, in which case the tweet could be considered libellous.
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You mus hate most wanted posters then.

Police have been posting images of SUSPECTS since the pencil was invented
 
Population in Vancouver does not explain the rising cost of real estate. It's foreign direct investment. This has been established as of 2010.

I'm not angry about Vancouver, just pointing out the facts. I used to live there and at the time it was a great city. Its golden years are in the past.

Whether BC is better than ON or QE is a matter of preferences. ON and QE have worse winters but they have more cultured activities. My partner and I never vacation in Vancouver because there's nothing to do there but shop and go hiking. The one night event we went to, people were just standing around in groups drinking and not talking to strangers. We like arts, culture and night life so we fly elsewhere.

If you don't want to talk to me it's no sweat off my back. You seem really prideful which doesn't make a lot of sense. If you love Vancouver then that's fine.

Fearandloathing said:
I guess you chose NOT to read "There are big problems.

I never said real estate isn't an issue...it's because too many people want to live here, it's that much of a **** hole.

If you want to run down my city go for it. No matter what it still beats anything Ontario of Quebec can offer.,


Wn't be talking to you much. Seems you have some anger about Vancouver. Jealous?

Good bye
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Fearandloathing said:
You mus hate most wanted posters then.

Police have been posting images of SUSPECTS since the pencil was invented
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I've not issue with posting images of suspects as suspects and certainly not in formal ways such as wanted posters. My issue here is the implication in the tweet that the suspect is already deemed guilty and using public shaming as a tool of sub-judicial punishment.
Imagine if a police officer tweeted a picture of you implying you'd committed a crime which you were innocent of and it went viral. No punishment, apology or retraction is going to reverse the damage that could do.
 
HonestJoe said:
I've not issue with posting images of suspects as suspects and certainly not in formal ways such as wanted posters. My issue here is the implication in the tweet that the suspect is already deemed guilty and using public shaming as a tool of sub-judicial punishment.
Imagine if a police officer tweeted a picture of you implying you'd committed a crime which you were innocent of and it went viral. No punishment, apology or retraction is going to reverse the damage that could do.
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I have no idea where you would see the video as convicting anyone. It's video, it is what is known as raw evidence.

If you have a story where that has happened, where an innocent person was harmed, bring it. Until then its nothing more than a paranoid delusion.

The Vancouver riots of 2010 were solved by the police posting videos of rioters rioting. Hundreds of people, thousands of meters of video and NOT ONE complaint.

Look, I work with police, I am on the anti-drug advisory board. No cop is going to risk a case by placing a bias on a video. As for the video, it is a thing, it has no bias, it shows facts if to some, or even all, it shows the guy did it, it's because the guy did it.

Would you have a problem of running an audio description of the man? You don't have a case here
 
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