Bruce Springsteen, who is a musician, was arrested by DWI in November last year, news that only came out this week and drove Jeep to launch its Super Bowl ad with The Boss. Looks like this is a pretty dry story, unless it is.
Take, for example, the Asbury Park Press report as of yesterday Springsteen’s blood alcohol content was 0.02, well below New Jersey’s 0.08 limit.
The blood alcohol content of New Jersey rock icon Bruce Springsteen was 0.02, just a quarter of New Jersey’s legal limit, when Sandy Hook was arrested in November and charged with driving while he was intoxicated, a source familiar with the case told Asbury Park Press.
The legal threshold for poisoning to drive in New Jersey is 0.08, which calls into question why even Springsteen was accused of driving while intoxicated, the source said.
It was one thing, and then the “rape notification” was posted yesterday and it was more “eh”. Here is the full statement of the arresting agent. Springsteen was stopped in a red and silver Triumph.
While patrolling on foot, I observed a man (Bruce F. SPRINGSTEEN) consume a shot of Patron tequila and then get on his motorcycle and start the engine. I contacted SPRINGSTEEN and informed him that alcohol is prohibited in Sandy Hook. The Patron bottle from which the shot was fired was completely empty (750 ml). I asked SPRINGSTEEN if he was leaving and he confirmed to me that he was going to leave the park. SPRINGSTEEN claimed he had had two shots of tequila in the last 20 minutes. SPRINGSTEEN smelled strongly of alcohol coming out of his person and had glassy eyes. I ran SPRINGSTEEN using standardized field sobriety tests. I observed four out of six clues in the nystagmus test of the horizontal gaze. SPRINGSTEEN swayed visibly back and forth as he watched his eyes. I observed five out of eight tracks in the walk and turn test. SPRINGSTEEN took a total of 45 steps during the walk and turn instead of the 18 instructions. SPRINGSTEEN refused to provide a sample in the preliminary breath test.
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All in all it sounds like a damn thing! Except then, remember this figure of 0.02, which, if true, must come from a later test. The New York Times too spoke with a lawyer which, in my opinion, gave the most probable explanation of what fell:
Even if the blood alcohol level is below the legal limit, it is not uncommon for a person to be accused of drunk driving according to an officer’s observation during a three-part sobriety test, according to Carmine R. Villani, New Jersey criminal defense attorney. lawyer with 30 years of experience in DWI cases.
“Everything is done in a total way,” said Villani, who is not involved in the Springsteen case. “Maybe he was breathing alcohol. Then maybe not all aspects of the test pass. It is designed to clutter people. It is a test of divided attention. It’s a stressful event and often people don’t like it. “
But if it is finally detected that the blood alcohol level is well below 0.08%, the cases are usually easily resolved, Villani said.
“With a .02 I shouldn’t move my heart; I wouldn’t be nervous,” he said. “In .02, science is simply not there. Someone is not affected.
All of this resulted in Springsteen stopping talking to a fan, according to the New York Times, and now I can better understand why Springsteen went ahead with the Jeep ad and apparently life as normal if people had assured him that registering a 0.02 would not present much of a problem.
Needless to say, taking a shot of tequila (or two) before riding the bike is not optimal, nor drinking on federal properties where drinking is not allowed, but mostly this story is very Bruce Springsteen. Vagabonds like us, girl, were born to run.