Des Moines man with .340 BAC arrested after driving backward on Interstate 80

[cigaretteman]

Dec 14, 2015 at 9:02 am
TIFFIN — A Des Moines man with a .340 blood alcohol content was arrested Sunday night after being observed driving backward on Interstate 80.

According a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office criminal complaint, around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 42-year-old George E. Baker was spotted backing up in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 to the rest area at the 237 mile marker. Police said Baker then got out of his vehicle and urinated on the side of the road.

Baker was unsteady and could not complete standard field sobriety tests, authorities said. A preliminary breath test showed a blood alcohol content of .340 percent. A second test later showed his blood alcohol content to be .238 percent, authorities said. The legal limit to operate a motor vehicle in Iowa is .08 percent.

Baker was arrested and faces one count of drunken driving, a serious misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/n...after-driving-backward-on-interstate-20151214

 

[UNIowaHawk]

If he played for the Cornhuskers and this were in Nebraska he would have gotten off.

 

[ChrisVarick]

Like this?

 

[IACub]

You're going the wrong way!

 

[NoleSoup4U]

You're going the wrong way!

One of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest movies.

 

[IACub]

One of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest movies.

I think I actually peed my pants a little the first time I saw that as a kid.

 

[lucas80]

I wonder if he was drinking all the way over from Des Moines, or he was even drunker and that's what he sobered up to?
It's a Christmas miracle he didn't kill someone.

 

[IACub]

I wonder if he was drinking all the way over from Des Moines, or he was even drunker and that's what he sobered up to?
It's a Christmas miracle he didn't kill someone.

Sobered down to?

 

[lucas80]

Up, down. Good question. You sober up, but the BAC goes down.
I assume this wasn't his first encounter with the law due to alcohol.

 

[Huey Grey]

Apparently driving while blasted drunk wasn't challenging enough.

 

[joelbc1]

Dec 14, 2015 at 9:02 am
TIFFIN — A Des Moines man with a .340 blood alcohol content was arrested Sunday night after being observed driving backward on Interstate 80.

According a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office criminal complaint, around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 42-year-old George E. Baker was spotted backing up in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 to the rest area at the 237 mile marker. Police said Baker then got out of his vehicle and urinated on the side of the road.

Baker was unsteady and could not complete standard field sobriety tests, authorities said. A preliminary breath test showed a blood alcohol content of .340 percent. A second test later showed his blood alcohol content to be .238 percent, authorities said. The legal limit to operate a motor vehicle in Iowa is .08 percent.

Baker was arrested and faces one count of drunken driving, a serious misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/n...after-driving-backward-on-interstate-20151214

So this deserves getting one's pic in the paper? Silly.

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

Sounds like Wisconsin. Except this would be about his 10th DUI

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

You're going the wrong way!

Oh he's drunk. How would he know where were going?