Whitney Marie Beall decided it would be a good idea to film herself drunk driving. The 23-year-old woman from Lakeland, Florida joked as she drove around intoxicated.
At one point, she crashes into the sidewalk. "I'm fing drunk and this is horrible!" She says in the video. "I have no fing idea where I should be."
Her behavior is so extreme and remorseless you would think the video was a parody. "Driving drunk is not cool," she slurs in the video.
She broadcasted the footage on a social media platform called Periscope. When users noticed her live video, they called 911.
Drunk driving is a serious offense. We've seen it take lives too many times. It took the life Renee Napier's daughter, it permanently disabled Joel Jackson, and every 51 minutes in the United States it takes someone's life.
A police officer saw Whitney's post and was able to use context clues to find out where she was. He noticed landmarks to determine her location and arrested her when she failed a field sobriety test.
"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," said the officer.
Fortunately Whitney didn't injure anyone or herself. She is one of the lucky ones.
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