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California City Considers Using Facebook to Publicly Shame Drunken Drivers

(Nov. 17) -- Add "drunken driving" to the criteria for de-friending on National Unfriend Day. Southern California's Huntington Beach Police Department is considering public shaming on Facebook as a strategy for combating drunken drivers. The Orange County city had 274 alcohol-related collisions and 1,687 drunken driving...

Cops Accuse Donald Duck of Driving Drunk

(June 29) -- Donald Duck is a jailbird now. Police in Massillon, Ohio, arrested a drunk driving suspect who shares his name with Disney's most famous waterfowl. Law enforcement officials say 51-year-old Donald Norman Duck was intoxicated when he pulled into a drive-through pizzeria around 5:25 p.m. Saturday and...

On-Duty State Trooper Accused of Driving Drunk

(March 23) -- An on-duty Colorado State Patrol trooper was pulled over in his marked patrol car Monday and arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after several concerned citizens called 911 to report he was driving erratically. "Devastated" is how Col. James Wolfinbarger, chief of the CSP, described the arrest of David...

Mark Bell, Just Another NHL Drunk Driver

The culture of boozing it up permeates the NHL player ranks like a Trojan virus. Steve Chiasson's 1999 drunk driving death of was, sadly, reflective of the beer-swilling, drunk and dangerous driving nature of many NHL players. The latest dopey NHLer to be caught boozing and cruising was Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mark...

Jared Allen Apologizes

In a follow-up to Jon's entries from last week (link to first; link to second), Jared Allen has apologized for getting his second DUI citation. Whether Allen apologized on his own, or was forced to by the team, he nonetheless said all the right things.Now he has to act on it. One DUI you can perhaps brush off. A second...