Details Emerge On Glasgow DUI
MLive has an ARTICLE giving further details on Graham Glasgow's Ides of March DUI arrest. According to the report, he had a 0.13% BAC, and claimed that he had had 5 Natty Lights that evening.
Glasgow, 21 of Ann Arbor, was driving a white Chevrolet Suburban SUV on William when Officer Pat Maguire observed a woman, Alexa Dannemiller, hanging out of the front passenger window.
“As the vehicle turned, Maguire saw that there was a white female hanging from the front passenger side window,” the report stated. “She was sitting on the lap of another passenger who was in the same seat.”
Dannemiller, a Univeristy of Michigan volleyball player, was screaming at pedestrians and not wearing a seatbelt so Maguire began following the vehicle, according to the report.
He said the rear tailgate to the SUV was open and, as Glasgow continued driving, it started to open more and more with items coming out of the trunk. Eventually, the falling items started to obscure the license plate and Maguire initiated a traffic stop.
Needless to say, 0.13% BAC (i) raises a serious safety issue, and (ii) probably takes someone Glasgow's size more than five Natty Lights to achieve (although he would not be the first or the last to fib about how many drinks he had when pulled over on a night out). I'm in the camp that believes that drinking and driving is very serious, but also recognize that college kids do such things. It's probably worth noting that with the rolling party going on in the SUV Glasgow was driving, it seems like a blessing in disguise that the police intervened before anyone got hurt. One incident doesn't make a pattern, but I hope Glasgow uses this as a wake-up call and never gets behind the wheel again impaired. (All of this assumes the police report is accurate, of course.)
I suspect Glasgow will get typical first offender punishments from the judge after pleaing the case out, based on his lawyer's assertion that he expects this to be resolved quickly. And I'm sure that the dorm viking crowd will be appalled at whatever punishments the Michigan staff doles out (IIRC, it stands now at some Spring Practice suspension and missing Appy State).
Drunk driving is stupid. Period.
Drunk driving while allowing a passenger to hang out your window, while, keeping the tailgait open, while, allowing things to fall out the back is completely assenine and self-destructive.
What more could he have done to get noticed (and in trouble)?
He could have worn his cat sweatshirt.
Given that they were stopped at Maynard and William, I'd say they were at either Ashley's or Scorekeepers. Or maybe both.
And for chrissakes, if you're going to get stupid drunk and arrested, at least do it drinking beer that's worth drinking. Natty Lite is piss, and weak piss at that.
5 Natty Lites? I'm going to reckon it wasn't Ashleys.
They tout their wide beer selection, but then Natty Lite probably can't be classified as beer, either.
So, he got drunk and then made bad decisions? I wonder if there's a correlation there.
Might also explain the last few women I slept with. (Not to mention that goat and the East Wing of the Neuro-Psych Ward.)
Yes... drunk women do tend to make very very bad decisions.
So basically he was begging to be arrested. Zero sympathy here, hope he has a long offseason of waking up at 4 am to flip and drag tires/weights up and down the practice field.
The obnoxious female passenger is also in hot water, I hope.
the obnoxious female passenger was Lexi Dannemiller, a girl on the volleyball team.
She received an MIP, but the charges for possession of a fraudlent ID were dropped.
[Meant as a reply to JTMC33 above]
You forgot to mention that the passenger hanging out the window was screaming at pedestrians as part of this debacle. You know, just in case the police weren't looking that way and might miss the rest of the wrongdoings.
So yeah, in addition to the grave danger of driving while intoxicated, there's the whole making a spectacle aspect. Assuming the report is accurate, this was prime grade foolishness.
Alexa (Lexi) Dannemiller was just named a tri-captain for the 2014 volleyball team a few weeks ago. Yeah, great leadership shown in this situation...
Disappointing all around. Not just Glasgow behind the wheel while intoxicated, but all the individuals who literally piled in that vehicle should have known better and it's sad that not one of them stopped Glasgow from driving.
Pics please
Edit: Nevermind, I see one below in the thread
LSUFreek could have a field day with this.
And yes, I did it when I was in college. Once. I recall throwing up out the window and at some point realizing I could have gotten myself in serious trouble, or worse. Definite peer pressure and getting caught up in the stupidity of the moment with friends that night.
I've also on a separate occastion driven my car back to campus from Showcase Cinemas with 9 passengers (plus me as the driver). So lucky we weren't pulled over.
Definitely two of the stupidest things I've done behind the wheel while in college.
Disappointing.
"...the rear tailgate to the SUV was open and, as Glasgow continued driving, it started to open more and more with items coming out of the trunk. Eventually, the falling items started to obscure the license plate and Maguire initiated a traffic stop."
Seriously? So the sight of a drunken girl sitting on somebody's lap yelling out the window while stuff fell out of an open tailgate wasnt enough to make a traffic stop? It was only when the amount of shit falling out of the open tailgate obscured the licence plate that it was deemed appropriate to pull Mr Glasgow over to see what was going on?
Wow - you have to be REALLY, REALLY drunk (and careless) to get pulled over in AA these days I guess.
Keep in mind it's a college town. Assuming he wasn't driving visibly drunk and swerving, I don't think any of that is particularly abnormal. Dumb, yes... unsafe, yes.... unusual, no.
After reading this, I find it extremely difficult to be sympathetic for Glasgow.
Rules of drunken driving:
Rule 1: Don't drive drunk.
Rule 2: If you absolutely HAVE to drive drunk, don't draw attention to yourself.
I'm going to ignore your insinuation that I just condoned inconspicuous drunken driving. But usually a drunk driver drawing attention to themselves is due to an accident. That's probably something to avoid, yes?
K, thx.
How about just one rule?
In a perfect world, my friend. But 900,000 per year decide to break the rule.
I didn't mean to insinuate that, Sorry that it was taken that way. I know we all are against drunk driving.
Mgoblue has Graham Glasgow listed at 308 pounds. A person of that weight would need 11 cans of Natural Light Beer (4.2% ABV) to hit a BAC of .013. Of course, your body starts metabolizing it immediately. So depending on how long he had been drinking for, it may have been more than that.
I would say he had around a case if it was just beer he was drinking.
Could be... Natural Ice is 5.9% ABV, so he'd only need 8 beers. If he got his hands on 16 ounce cans, he'd only need 6. So maybe that's how you get there.
EDIT: But wait. He got pulled over at 8:39pm, and said he'd had 5 beers "since 3pm". You can metabolize away a lot of alchohol in five hours. The first few beers he had were long gone from his bloodstream by the time he was given the BAC test.
Is it the same metabolic rate if he had Natty colonics?
"probably takes someone Glasgow's size more than five Natty Lights to achieve"
No probably about it.
http://dui.drivinglaws.org/calc.php
At 300lbs, and consuming them all within 1 hour....
12 beers = 0.13% BAC
I am surprised volleyball hasn't punished Lexi for her decision making that night. Not quite what you want from your senior leader.
I wonder just what in hell she was screaming at the pedestrians? Criticizing their choice in footwear?
Maybe it was "GTF out of the road...we've got natty lights and junk coming OUT OF the trunk."
Just to play devil's advocate, maybe she didn't know how drunk he was when getting into the car with him. All the other stuff isn't the exactly flattering, but being a captain/leader doesn't necessarily mean studying in the dorms on Saturday nights.
In what universe can someone not be able to tell that the person you've been drinking with all night isn't drunk?
Do you know she was drinking with him all night? Or was paying attention to how much he was drinking? When I go to the bar in a group, I'm not always keeping tabs on how much all of my friends are drinking. Especially when I'm drinking.
Are you really trying to suggest you can't tell how tipsy a person is when interacting with them? And the thought never crosses your mind when said person gets behind the wheel?
There are so many holes in this argument. Come on.
Now, or when I was 20? And am I also wasted?
To answer your question honestly, when I was out drinking with friends, I don't think I was able to tell between someone who was probably not fit to drive and someone who was. Sure, if the person was shit-faced, I could tell. But that wasn't the case with Glasgow. He had a soild buzz, but .13 is not slur your words or stumble around drunk. So assuming I'm also about .13 (which is likely to be the case0, no I don't think I'd be able to tell one way or another.
Sounds like he was on his way to being moderately shit-faced to me.
"Glasgow was distracted, and couldn’t both speak with Maguire and try to get his license and proof of insurance. He fumbled his license when he tried to pull it from his wallet, the report said.... Glasgow failed an eye tracking test, the one leg stand and nearly lost his balance while trying to walk in a straight line, the report said."
He was also pretty nervous after being pulled over, knowing he'd likely be getting a DUI and a suspension from the football team. That might be enough to mentally/emotionally mess someone up which just exacerbates the intoxication level. When he was hanging out with the girls, he was likely a lot more cool, calm and collected to the point where they didn't notice his was drunk.
When I was at Michigan a friend of mine got pulled over on Washtenaw while I was in the car. He met up with me after I was with some other students celebrating the end of the semester with a few beers and a movie. I felt a bit buzzed, and when the driver friend joined us we had a couple more beers. We hung out for about an hour b.s.'ing, etc., before our rendevouz with the AAPD.
I was very surprised that he was legally intoxicated when we were pulled over. My buddy went right off to the A2 drunk tank, but before he did the arresting officer came back to the car and asked me if I was willing to take a breathalyzer to see if I could take the car to my nearby house while my driver friend cooled his heels in the tank. I agreed (no law against impaired passengering!), thinking I would fail the test miserably - I felt pretty trashed by that point and thought it would be interesting to get the results. It turned out I was fine to drive, and took my other friend over to my place before we bailed out the driver the next morning.
A few observations. First, I had no clue my buddy had been drinking before picking us up and was surprised he was legally intoxicated. The standard was 0.10% at the time, and the only reason he was pulled over was he was driving above the speed limit. So my experience supports WolvinLA2's observations - you can't always tell when your friend is legally drunk. Second, I felt really buzzed when I took the breathalyzer, but blew a 0.03% or 0.04% (they had me do it twice). So I learned I was a pretty poor judge of my own intoxication. Third, the cops knew right away that I would be fine by their field observations - one officer said I'd "pass for sure" as I walked in front of the car to take the breathalyzer test.
So I agree with WolvinLA2 - it's hard (without training or experience) to gauge with confidence how buzzed someone is.
I've known quite a few high functioning drunks in my time. You'd be surprised how well some people can hold it together up to a point.