12-year-old girl gets a DWI in Minnesota
Shawn Norris
A 12-year-old was found to be intoxicated after police came across the girl behind the wheel of a car that had reportedly crashed through a highway sign. Unfortunately, at the time, that car was parked in someone’s garden.
Kids today just can’t get enough of the Grand Theft Auto. This has to be one of the strangest stories ever encountered by Minnesota police, as the girl was reportedly at a party (coolest 12-year-old ever?) when a drunken 19-year-old Benjamin Repinski asked he if she’d be able to drive him home. Really, dude? You may as well have just called Chris Hansen collect and had him drive you directly to jail. Obviously this poor girl probably wasn’t the best driver to begin with and her over the legal limit .09 BAL wasn’t helping matters any.
As she drove along County Road 12 near Witoka, she mistook the gas pedal for the brake and hit a highway sign, drove through a yard and into a garden.
That sounds about right.
Authorities said Repinski then got behind the wheel, started driving and struck a shed. He was cited for underage drinking and driving, underage drinking and allowing an unlicensed person to drive. All are misdemeanors.
All misdemeanors? Seems to me that charges against a 19-year-old with a drunken 12-year-old parked on someone’s front lawn after driving through a sign should all get rolled into one nice felony charge. There are just so many things wrong with this situation that it would seem like this fellow maybe needs a few years behind bars to research a nice chauffeur he needs to hire this girl for probably ruining her young life. Florida, you know, we expect this kind of stuff in Florida — but Minnesota?
Meanwhile, a deputy on his way to the hospital to interview the girl saw a man on a moped driving wobbily on Hwy. 43 and wearing sunglasses in the pitch dark.
Corey Hart, when will you ever learn?
The deputy stopped the moped and cited Daniel G. Arndt, 21, of Winona, for driving while intoxicated. Arndt told the deputy that he was on his way to pick up his friend, Repinski, who had called him for a ride after the crash.
And I wonder how the geniuses thought they were going to get three people on a moped?
I think it’s clear that the 12-year-old was the brains of this operation because the guys involved were definitely not two of Minnesota’s brightest minds.
Girl, 12, drunk and driving? [Star Tribune]
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