Alaska man charged with ‘driving under the influence’ — while floating down river on raft…
August 3, 2012 by Jack Blood
Filed under Police State
FAIRBANKS — A Juneau man faces a rare DUI charge for allegedly having a 0.313 breath-alcohol content as he floated through Fairbanks on an inflatable raft Sunday night.
Alaska’s driving under the influence law applies to people operating motor vehicles, water craft and airplanes. The vast majority of charges are for terrestrial motor vehicles.
But when Alaska State Troopers received a report of a “heavily intoxicated” man floating down the Chena River near the Parks Highway bridge at 6:40 p.m. Sunday, a wildlife trooper boat responded and arrested 32-year-old William Modene.
“Modene had been floating on the river for the day and consuming alcoholic beverages the entire time,” troopers wrote in their “daily dispatches” log on their website.
At 0.313, Modene’s breath-alcohol content was almost four times the legal limit for operating a vehicle, 0.08.
Modene was arrested without incident and was cooperative with troopers, trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said.
Modene posted $2,500 bail on Monday, according to the Alaska court system website.
Under Alaska’s DUI law, operating a water craft means to “navigate a vessel used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water for recreational or commercial purposes on all waters, fresh or salt, inland or coastal, inside the territorial limits or under the jurisdiction of the state.”
Yeah you can imagine the kinds of devastation and death this “driver” would have caused if he hadn’t been stopped in time..
I wonder if when they got too him they screamed in the way they do with spit and flem flying out of their mouths and their veins pooping out of their skulls and their faces going beetroot with pure steroid rage.
I just get that picture that they did scream like that at him to “get out of the veHICal and hit the floor”,
“But sir i’ll drown sir and i cannot swim sir”
“GET DOWN ON THE FLOOR SCUM BAG” zzzzzzt zzzzzzzzzzzt
“ARRRRGGGHH DONT TAZE ME BRO”
“SHUT UP SCUM BAG YOU ARE UNDER ARREST” zzzzzzt zzzzzzt hahaha
I shouldn’t be making silly jokes but this is just ridiculous, ok it’s a law, but he’s rafting on his lonesome having a beer chillin’ Alaskan style i guess, Leave the guy alone.
$2,500 I can only say WOW too that because you know that’s going to screw you up for making that mortgage payment or making your services or utility bills and what ever else Alaskan have to pay up on.
In my view this kind of things is draconian for such “offences”.