Posted on 10/13/2015 7:07:25 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Whitney Marie Beall, 23, of Lakeland, was arrested and charged with a DUI on Saturday after using Periscope, a live video streaming platform owned by Twitter, to broadcast herself driving drunk.
Periscope videos are public and can be seen world-wide.
Periscope users called The Lakeland Police to report a possible drunk driver using the social media site.
One caller told a dispatcher, "She's really drunk. She just hit something. She might be driving with a flat tire. She's in a Toyota".
Messages were sent to the driver via Periscope asking Beall to stop driving and to pull over. According to authorities, Beall recorded 7 videos that night.
"I'm (expletive) drunk and this is horrible. I don't even know where the next gas station is. This is horrible guys," Beall said in the video.
An officer was able to use their personal account in an effort to locate the driver. The officer was able to find the driver based observations and landmarks from the streaming video. At this time, she was driving a 2015 Toyota Corolla with a flat left front tire.
Officers found Beall in the 1000 block of Carpenters Way.
Officer Mike Kellner arrested Beall after she failed a field sobriety test and refused a breathalyzer test. She was later transported to the Polk County Jail on a DUI charge. She has bonded out.
But is she hot? I know it’s stupid comment. Just my frame of mind this morning. Me: 71 Duster
I’m only 35, but I’ll never understand the modern need to broadcast oneself to the world in an attempt to garner interest. Contemporary youth are so vacant and emotionally empty that they no longer care about physical relationships in lieu of Internet “fans.”
This world is retarded.
Definitely a risk to the general public. I'm surprised they let her bond out so easily.
Incompetent writer, or an incompetent writer trying to be politically correct?
Hear Hear
More likely that the writer didn't know the name/gender of the officer who tracked her down.
Well, they could always read the Cleveland, Ohio paper to find out: “a Lakeland police officer downloaded the Periscope app on his personal phone so officers could see the broadcast.”
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/10/florida_woman_uses_periscope_t.html
Incompetent writer, or an incompetent writer trying to be politically correct?
More likely that the writer didn’t know the name/gender of the officer who tracked her down.
In that case, I know that you know the convention has been to use the pronoun “his” when the sex is unknown but the number is known singular. Of course, one could say “his or her” but that’s cumbersome. Both are more correct than “their.”
We used to call those old Dusters RUSTERS after they were driven through a couple of NY winters. The ones that are rust free are nice cars.
Rusters! Good one! I’m in NM so since we never get rain, it’s in pretty good shape. Thanks for the laugh!
After a few beers, not too bad!
True, though I have no idea what the AP style guide (assuming that’s what they follow?) says on the topic.
Well, that's just too much to ask of the writer!
And she looks like she would clean up nicely, too.
Too bad about the stupid, though.
As of January of this year:
“Someone queried the Associated Press Stylebook to find out whether AP has accepted their as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, to which the editors of the stylebook replied no. Testy Copy Editors commented on Facebook: “AP holds the line, for now, against the idiot epicene.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-everyone-goes-their-own-way-20150106-story.html
The singular ‘they’ is apparently popular with homosexuals, feminists, and homosexual feminists.
Let’s all agree that we are doomed, regardless.
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