Posted on 09/02/2024 8:46:02 AM PDT by DFG
Bodycam footage has captured the mayor of a Florida town trying to distance herself from her title — telling cops, “Don’t call me the mayor” as she struggled to keep her balance during a field sobriety test after she allegedly ran over a neighbor’s mailbox.
Teresa Heitmann, the mayor of Naples, was seen attempting to perform sobriety tests Wednesday evening after she was caught driving with a blood alcohol level over twice the legal limit, NBC2 News reported.
“I think the mayor is drunk, and she just, she just literally … oh, she just drove over our mailbox,” a man is heard telling 911 dispatchers over the phone, per NBC affiliate WBBH.
When asked if the woman was indeed the mayor, the 911 caller replies, “I don’t know. She’s claiming to be the mayor. I don’t know who she is.”
After a brief pause, the neighbor asked the woman to identify herself again, to which she replied, “Mayor Teresa Heitmann.”
However, after cops arrived just after 10 p.m., Heitmann, 61, appeared to distance herself from her title.
“No, don’t call me mayor,” she is heard telling a police officer in video footage. “I am Teresa Heitmann right now. I am not the mayor.”
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Newman!!
“We know this is a difficult time for Mayor Heitmann and will give her the space she needs..." Like maybe an extra lane or two?
*snivker*
(“Don’t call me the mayor”)
Yeah that’s the ticket....
And the 15 to 25 grand is just for starters...
I sure hope that was a replica.
That was one of my dream cars from the Cannonball movies.
Naples is a rich person town.
It’s the Palm Beach of the West Coast of Florida.
In the younger days, we were out partying and made it all the way home safely pulled in the driveway of the guys house and he wanted to just get a little bit closer up in the driveway because there was always a bunch of cars parked in it and wanted to leave room for more cars and He is about a foot from the tongue of a boat trailer and wanted a few more inches forward and ran into the tongue of the trailer and bent the damn hood .
I told Him that if He was trying to hitch up We needed to turn around to do so.
Wide lanes 🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️ are so luxurious!!
The drunk ran over a mailbox. Just as easily could have been some kid standing there. So I wonder what kind of sentence she’ll get. Probably some kind of deferred thing. Take a few classes. Promise not to do it again.
At least she’ll get a hefty fine and an interesting letter from her insurance company.
I hated that Tara Buckman wound up hanging around some other gal.....
Hey, it was just an “accident”. Anyone, after having a glass of wine or no wine at all, would have tailgated and followed that person’s car to his house, run up on his lawn and over his mailbox and nearly fall over during a field sobriety test. Or so I was told on another thread yesterday about the drunk driver who killed two bicyclists.
After:
Would Laz?
[Would Laz?]
Hit the mail box? I don’t think so...
In the 90’s a jerk kid blew up our mailbox and we caught him. He was underage or he would have been charged with a federal crime, the cops told us. Maybe she should be charged with such a crime.
Yeah, saw that.
And if it happened to him he’d be up in arms over it.
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