The problem with drunk driving...

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In Green Bay it's bad.
It's always been a problem, even before cars were invented, and it always will be.

But a guy in the Town of Denmark has TWELVE drunk drving arrests?

12th OWI, Head-on Drunk Driving Crash Spark Anger, Frustration at OWI Problem

So many of you have expressed sadness, anger and frustration over the crash Friday night in Green Bay that killed the parents of two children.

Police say a second-offense drunk driver was speeding on Oakwood Drive, ran a stop sign and slammed into the car of Jim and Wendy Rush, killing them instantly.

Police say 27-year-old Daniel Boucher was driving that SUV.

He’s behind bars, facing charges for killing the Rushs and injuring his fiance who was in the car with him.

Boucher broke his leg.

Officers say it’s the worst possible outcome to what they’re calling a scary and disturbing trend of drunk driving incidents in the last few days.

“Initially I just heard what sounded like metal crashing together,” recalls Green Bay Police Officer Mike Knetzger, describing what he heard while working just before 2:00 a.m. early Saturday.

That began the Green Bay Police Department’s second OWI crash investigation within five hours, late Friday into Saturday morning.

“One drunk driver was travelling northbound on Huron Road, and another drunk driver was travelling southbound in the northbound lanes when they both collided,” says Knetzger.

Knetzger happened to be working near that intersection and responded immediately.

He says he saw one smashed up car and debris scattered everywhere, but he was unaware there was a second drunk driver still on the road.

“About 10 minutes later, I learned that there was another pickup truck that was driving through an adjacent neighborhood on three wheels, and one tire had been completely ripped off, and it was driving on its front steering components,” says Knetzger.

Both drivers, uninjured, were eventually cited for first offense OWI, one of them more than twice the legal limit.

Early Tuesday morning, Green Bay Police arrested a 59-year old Denmark man for his 12th OWI.

Court records show Patrick Moore had a BAC of .246.

http://wbay.com/2016/02/23/12th-owi-head-on-drunk-driving-crash-spark-anger-frustration-at-owi-problem/

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1. I still can't believe so many DUI's are in our paper. I asked a woman I work with who's roommate

and friends still do it, how they think they can afford to take the chance? She says they just don't worry too much about it. Probably won't until they get that first one. I kind of knew that.

That's the way it used to be like 25 years or so ago when my buddies and I drank competitively and always drove. But now, you're looking at $10 thousand or so if you plan on having a lawyer do anything for you. The last I knew, on a first offense you could get it down to a withheld judgement and reduced charges as long as it was your first one, didn't hurt anybody, and weren't excessively drunk. Then you get your lawyer to try and get you out of the classes and whatever else, all costing more.

That guy was really drunk. I think the BAC should be expressed as .246% though. Papers get that wrong all the time. But that makes him over three times the legal limit figuring about three drinks in an hour to get to .08%, he was really pounding them down. Even at the Eagles Lodge where I hang out, where they over serve and look the other way most of the time, you wouldn't get out the door with your keys that drunk!