1. I can’t reach my license unless you hold my beer.
2. Sorry Officer, I didn’t realize my radar detector wasn’t plugged in.
3. Aren’t you the guy from the Village People?
4. Hey, you must’ve been doin’ about 90 mph to keep up with me. Good job!
5. Are You Andy or Barney?
6. I thought you had to be in relatively good physical condition to be a police officer.
7. You’re not gonna check the trunk, are you?
8. I pay your salary!
9. Gee Officer! That’s terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning, too!
10. Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.
11. I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there are no other cars around. That’s how far ahead of me they are.
12. When the Officer says “Sir, your eyes look red, have you been drinking?” You probably should not respond with “Gee Officer, your eyes look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?”
13. Will you guys make up your mind! Yesterday the judge took my license away and now you want me to show it to you.

I guess Bob Lorenz isn’t a player so his number doesn’t count towards the total either right?

Wouldn’t surprise me at all if a lot of .09′s-1.2 BAC’s get let off, if they are cooperative.

Shortly after the trade, Naulty went to a bar near his home in Southern California. He was a full-blown alcoholic by then. There was a dispute over a woman. A bouncer asked him to leave. Somebody wanted to mess with him, and Naulty was ready. Naulty wasn’t about to back down from a bouncer — or two or three or four or five. It took six men to finally bring him down.

“Just more testosterone,” he explained. “You’re a wild animal. It’s amazing I didn’t kill somebody, myself included, as much as I was drinking and everything.”

The cops hauled him away and, after emptying his pockets and taking his mug shot, threw him in a cell. Naulty sat there weeping, his head in his hands, convinced he had just blown his chance to pitch for the Yankees. Suddenly one of the cops walked toward the cell, holding up a card.

“Hey, is this real?”
It was Naulty’s Major League Baseball player identification card. The cop had found it in his wallet.

“Yeah,” Naulty said. “I just got traded to the New York Yankees.”

The cop immediately unlocked the cell and let him out. Other cops printed four copies of his mug shot and asked Naulty to autograph them. They slapped him on the back, shook his hand and sent him on his way. No charges were filed.

“I barely graduated high school,” Naulty says. “I probably graduated college with about an eighth-grade reading level. And when you play major league baseball, society is at your beck and call.”

From Verducci’s story last week in SI. Yes, it’s about a bar fight, but I think it’s ridiculous to say this couldn’t be jsut as applicable to a DUI. also, did they “send him on his way” in his own car?

As a fresh out of law school prosecutor in a small university town, I prosecuted a LOT of DUIs over my first three years. I never got a report on one of the university’s football players. This struck me as improbable, given the number of football players and the size of the community, and how many regular students had been arrested and cited for DUI. And as a recent grad of the same university, it struck me as flat out impossible.

Until you can account for how many of these guys get a free pass based on their status, you can’t say that they are driving drunk at a lesser rate than the rest of us. just that they are getting arrested less often.

As others have alluded to, isn’t it significantly likely that (MLB) baseball players are arrested for DUI at lower rates because the officer at the scene LETS HIM GO?

Obviously it’s okay for the poor and middle class to occasionally get shitfaced and cruise around town. Because they’re not filthy rich and shouldn’t be held responsible.

Kind of reminds me of the statistic that like 70% of accidents happen when you’re driving within 25 miles of your home, but leaves out the fact that 99% of your driving is within that area.

But I still think that lower middle class people probably get arrested for DWI far more than wealthy folks, as their options are a lot more limited.