Woman Arrested for Drunk-Ordering Pizza Online While Driving
A handful of friends, some bottles of brew, and a pizza: This, to many people, sounds like a solid night out.
However, if this is a party for one, located inside a moving car, and the pizza is on a mobile-enhanced website on your phone, now we’re not having as much fun.
This is what Louisville, Kentucky, police say one woman’s story was when they pulled her over for erratic driving in the wee hours of Monday morning, according to WDRB.com. The 27-year-old admitted to police that she had recently downed a half-bottle of wine and a beer and that she was searching for a place to buy pizza on her phone prior to being stopped.
Indeed, police said, Dominos.com was pulled up on her handset’s Web browser, and so she was arrested and charged with both operating a motor vehicle under the influence and using a communications device while driving.
Texting and driving is dangerous enough. Don’t do this.
No one was harmed this time. But if you’re drunk and craving pizza in Louisville, there are many apps and gadgets that can prevent you from having to engage in illegal vehicular activity.
Uber, everyone’s favorite designated-driver app, is available in Louisville. So there was no reason why, after consuming all of that liquid courage, this woman should have been afraid to ping a driver to give her a ride home.
And after you’ve had a few, searching the old-fashioned Internet for pizza can be a cumbersome and difficult thing to do — even from the comfort of your Uber taxi. But not only do most pizza joints have their own apps to make that process simpler (like Domino’s for Android and iOS), a new app called Push for Pizza will let you order from your favorite spot by just pushing one button.
Sounds easy, drunk or sober. Just saying.
On top of all that, a company called BACtrack even makes a new, super-compact breathalyzer for iPhone, a device that could have informed our busted friend, without any question, that she wasn’t in good enough shape to drive.
So, yes, technology can be a great help if ever you find yourself in a questionable spot. But plain common sense — that’s probably still the best thing our girl here could have employed.
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