DRUNK DIALLING

The nature of the drunken phone-call varies, but whether you’re telling a co-worker you love her or telling your boss you’re going to kill and eat him, come the warm sunrise of sobriety, it almost always was a bad idea. Thus, Mary Strey’s call to report a drunk driver didn’t seem like a bad move, except that the driver she was calling to report was herself.

“Somebody’s really drunk driving down Granton Road,” Strey told a Clark County, WI, 911 dispatcher. When asked if she was driving behind them, Strey slurred out, “No, I am them.”

At the dispatcher’s urging, Strey pulled to the side of the road to await police. When a car arrived, Strey identified herself as the caller and told officers she’d been hitting the brandy and Cokes since earlier in the day. Because one can never trust a drunkard, police subjected Strey to sobriety tests, which she failed, explaining that she was having difficulties due to being drunk. A field breath test showed that her blood alcohol level was at 0.19

Strey was taken into custody and ticketed for first offence DWI.

by SCOTT SAXON