What did Knowshon Moreno's DUI arrest teach us? Where to begin
According to news reports, Denver Bronco running back Knowshon Moreno was recently pulled over for allegedly driving under the influence, speeding and other assorted violations. See news story here.
Now, athletes getting arrested for allegedly doing things wrong unfortunately isn't big news anymore, and in truth, if this were a normal case of an athlete getting arrested, it wouldn't be worth writing about. Ah, but this was no "normal" DUI arrest. This was a man begging to be pulled over. Here's why.
According to the news report, Moreno was travelling at a high rate of speed through a construction zone (which had a lower speed limit than normal because of the construction), but here's the great part. He was supposedly zooming along in a convertible Bently with a license plate that read
"SAUCED"
Are you kidding me? What's the matter, "IAMDRUNK" was taken? "PLEASEPULLMEOVER" didn't fit? This would be insanely funny if it weren't true.
So what can we learn from this? Plenty.
One of the first things we try and educate people on is that the best way to get out of a traffic ticket is to avoid being pulled over by the police in the first place. However you can do that, whether it's driving the speed limit, keeping your music down, not throwing things out of the car, or basically avoiding anything that would draw attention to yourself.
Even if you aren't doing anything wrong, eventually you will. It's just too easy for an officer, if he really wants to, to find you in violation of any one of the hundreds of traffic laws on the books. The key to not being arrested is to stay under the proverbial radar.
Allegedly, Knowshon was speeding, in an expensive car, with the top down, and he had a license plate that was advertising his potential state of intoxication by stating "sauced." And he wonders why he was pulled over.
Wow, and I thought Willis McGahee was his biggest problem.
