15-year old addict trips over speed bump
Alcoholic Antic-of-the-Month
Story from “This is True” by Randy Cassingham, with his “tagline:”
”WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU: A teenaged girl flagged down a Myrtle Beach, S.C., police car to complain a nightclub bouncer had thrown her out and took her identification away from her because it was fake. Officers checked, and sure enough, it was. Officers asked the girl for her name, and she gave several different names and birth dates before they told her she was being arrested. At that point she turned and ran — and tripped over a parking lot speed bump. The unidentified 15-year-old was charged with resisting arrest, possession of tobacco products, being a runaway, perjury, possession of fake identification and public intoxication. (Myrtle Beach Sun News) …I was waiting for that last one.”
Randy gets it. Unfortunately, too often there is either no arrest for or mention of public intoxication when behaviors indicate its likelihood. And, too, it’s usually listed last, when it should be first. The report would have been more educational had it said, “The unidentified 15-year old was arrested for public intoxication. The fact that she was high impelled her to resist being arrested. The likelihood of long-standing addiction to alcohol and other drugs explains her illegal possession of tobacco, being a runaway, perjury and possession of fake identification.” It might also have commented on the improbability of tripping over a speed bump unless one is really drunk or stoned.
(Story and tagline from “This is True,” copyright 2008 by Randy Cassingham, used with permission.)