June 5, 2009
Honestly, Who Drives Without Pants On?
I don’t want to be sad today, I’ve got dinner plans with Doug tonight, and a graduation party and wedding to attend tomorrow, and I keep reading my last post over and over again and it’s making me cry.
So, I logged on to the StevensPointJournal.com and read this local news story and nearly peed my pants laughing. Perhaps I’ll hang them out my car window later to dry them off.
A 29-year-old Plover woman who was talking on a cell phone and driving without pants was arrested for drunken driving following a crash in the town of Port Edwards, according to the Wood County Sheriff’s Department.
Jessica L. Jackson, who was driving her pickup truck east on Highway 54 just before 8:50 a.m. Sunday, had her pants hanging out the window to dry when the vehicle hit the highway shoulder, and Jackson overcorrected, according to the Wood County Sheriff’s Department Accident Report. Jackson crossed the centerline, entered the ditch and rolled the vehicle.
Jackson was transported to Riverview Hospital, where she was treated and released. She was arrested for drunken driving, Wood County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Dave Laude said. The preliminary breath test showed an alcohol concentration of 0.18, more than double the legal limit.
Now, the act of drunk driving itself is not funny. Not funny at all. I’ve lost many friends to this kind of tragedy.
But when I read the headline and then the part where her pants were hanging out the window, I could not stop laughing. I can’t help it. I just find that part hysterical.
I can’t imagine the look on the cop’s face when discovering a pantsless woman in a car accident. Maybe because this woman is from Plover (where I live) that made me laugh even harder.
Only in Wisconsin…seriously.
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June 7th, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Katie Says:
The whole combination of drying her pants while driving and being drunk is just strange! She’s just lucky she didn’t hurt anyone else – hopefully this is what she needs to never drink drive again!
June 7th, 2009 at 3:03 PM, The Redheaded Lefty Says:
But was she wearing undies?
June 8th, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Dana Says:
OMG, I have no idea! But wouldn’t that make it funnier?
Oy!