A young woman’s Periscope broadcast leads to her DUI Arrest in Lakeland, Florida.
Periscope and other social media apps are the future. Hollywood has already embraced the app for it’s ability to find the next top model, actress, or athlete. However, people are starting to use the app for all of the wrong reasons.
On Saturday night, a Florida woman broadcast her alleged drunken driving adventures onto Periscope, Twitter’s live streaming video app. “I am drunk,” Whitney Marie Beall said at one point. “This is horrible!”
She continued on by saying: “I’m driving. I think I’m on a flat tire. This is horrible…Goodbye red light…This song is super hot, I want you guys to know.”
The video quickly went viral, WTSP reports, and viewers sent the woman text messages telling her to stop driving. The Lakeland, Florida, police were also contacted by a viewer who was able to identify the young woman. For some reason, Lakeland police officers are banned from using Periscope on work computers, so an officer had to use his personal computer to track the 23-year-old drunk driver. Lakeland police eventually were able to determine her exact location and attempted to pull her over.
But, the young woman didn’t go out without a fight.
Her vehicle abruptly hit the south curb with the right front tire/wheel just as officer’s initiated a traffic stop. Officers advised that the driver did not even brake after striking the curb. Beall’s vehicle stopped in the 1000 block of Carpenters Way. Officers advised that they smelled the odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from Beall, her speech was slow; her eyes were bloodshot and glossy.
As you might expect, after failing her sobriety test, she was arrested and charged with DUI.
Only in Florida.
Can you believe this? Florida woman LIVE STREAMS while drunk driving –> http://on.wtsp.com/1jseEOj
Posted by WTSP 10 News on Monday, October 12, 2015
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