ONLY IN FLORIDA: Two Jupiter men charged with DUI at same time, driving same SUV

Palm Beach Post ^ | 04/17/2020 | Eliot Kleinberg

[BBQToadRibs]

In an only-in-Florida-like incident, the men, apparently brothers, allegedly got behind the wheel of the same vehicle, in front of police.

Here’s what happened:

Palm Beach Gardens police got a call about a reckless driver around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. When an officer arrived, they found Alfredo Lopez Chaj, 24, behind the wheel of a running blue Nissan SUV near the Paloma neighborhood, not far from Central Boulevard and Interstate 95, according to police reports.

But by the time the officer got to the vehicle, Alfredo was standing outside the SUV, the report said.

Martin Lopez Chaj, 20, then slid from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat and tried to put the car in reverse in an attempt to flee, but the officer pulled him out, the report stated.

By law, police say, a person is considered driving if he or she is in any way in control of a running vehicle, even if it is not moving.

The report went into detail about both men smelling of alcohol and showing signs of impairment. Both, it also noted, had wet their pants.

After each was given a field sobriety test, Martin agreed to a breath test, and a sampling was recorded at 0.21, more than 2½ times the 0.08 threshold to be impaired while driving. Alfredo refused the test, which triggers an automatic license suspension of a year. Police said neither man had a valid driver’s license.

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[FormerFRLurker]

I hate to imagine the condition of that Florida man’s “junk”.

[TexasGator]

at the same time
Explore ‘at the same time’ in the dictionary
1 (idiom) in the sense of simultaneously
Definition
simultaneously

[Robert DeLong]

Again you are splitting hairs.

[TexasGator]

“Again you are splitting hairs.”

Nowhere in the article does it claim ‘at the same time.

Headline writers make their living on click-bait.

[Political Junkie Too]

Early Bird Special?

-PJ

[Robert DeLong]

What the article does say is that before the officer got up to the vehicle the driver had stepped out of the car and the passenger had positioned himself behind the wheel. Thus they were both cited in a close enough time frame as to make it at the same time. While there most likely was a slight difference in time, it is so negligible as to be inconsequential.

Click bait on the other hand is so far off of reality that the intent is clearly one of misleading people in order for them to click on the article. In this case the arrests happened either simultaneously or serially close enough to make them considered at the same time. In other words, the 2nd person was not processed hours or even days later.

[TexasGator]

“What the article does say is that before the officer got up to the vehicle the driver had stepped out of the car and the passenger had positioned himself behind the wheel. Thus they were both cited in a close enough time frame as to make it at the same time. “

Close only counts in horseshoes.

[Robert DeLong]

You forgot hand grenades, nuclear weapons, gas attacks etc.

But you're still splitting hairs.

[TexasGator]

I am curious as to why you are defending MSM click-bait headlines.

[Robert DeLong]

I don't. This is not clickbait. This is a factual story, regardless as to whether you can see that fact or not.

Question is, why are you so adamant that you have to resort to hair splitting to make your case that it is clickbait? They were both arrested for DUI for driving the same vehicle at the same traffic stop. Just because one got from behind the steering wheel and the other one slid behind the steering wheel after the driver vacated it, does not change the fact that they were both charged with DUI at the same time. Again, any real time difference is so negligible as to be inconsequential.

I had figured out before I even read the article that the 2 had changed places, thus making them both to be legally considered as a driver of the vehicle, and they both must have been over the legal limit. I just read the article to confirm, and also to see if names were included so I could get more from the story. 8>)

[TexasGator]

“They were both arrested for DUI for driving the same vehicle at the same traffic stop”

But in two different incidents.

[Burma Jones]

That’s like a team getting 2 baserunners thrown out at home on the same play - hard to do!

[TexasGator]

“I had figured out before I even read the article that the 2 had changed places,”

They didn’t change places.

[Robert DeLong]

But in two different incidents.

Explain the 2 different incidents, as you see them.

[jjotto]

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/carlton-fisk-tags-two-runners-at-plate-on-same-play/c-140406106

[Hot Tabasco]

Illegals, I’m sure.

Not the typical illegals, these two were from Jupiter.......

[Robert DeLong]

This is an example of clickbait, and the title was written by a Freeper