Bruce Springsteen, who is a musician, was arrested for DWI in November last year, news that appeared only this week and caused Jeep to take its Super Bowl commercial with The Boss. This seems like a pretty simple story, except it’s not.
Take, for example, Asbury Park Press report as of yesterday, the blood alcohol content of Springsteen was 0.02, which is well below the 0.08 limit in New Jersey.
The New Jersey rock icon, Bruce Springsteen’s blood alcohol content, was 0.02 – just a quarter of the legal limit in New Jersey – when Sandy Hook was arrested in November and charged with drunk driving. , a source familiar with the case told Asbury Park Press.
The legal threshold for driving intoxication in New Jersey is 0.08, which calls into question why Springsteen was even accused of drunk driving, the source said.
Which was kind of huh, and then the “violation notification” was released yesterday and it was more “huh.” Here’s the full statement from the arresting officer. Springsteen was stopped on a red and silver Triumph.
While patrolling on foot, I noticed that a man (Bruce F. SPRINGSTEEN) was consuming a shot of the Patron tequila and then got on the motorcycle and started the engine. I contacted SPRINGSTEEN and informed him that alcohol was forbidden at Sandy Hook. The Patron bottle from which the shot was poured was completely empty (750 ml). I asked SPRINGSTEEN if he was leaving and he confirmed that he would leave the park by car. SPRINGSTEEN claimed to have had two photos of tequila in the last 20 minutes. SPRINGSTEEN smelled strongly of alcohol coming out of his person and had glassy eyes. I ran SPRINGSTEEN through standardized field sobriety tests. We noticed four out of six clues on the horizontal gaze nystagmus test. SPRINGSTEEN swayed visibly back and forth as we watched her. I noticed five clues out of eight on the return test. SPRINGSTEEN took a total of 45 steps during the walk and return instead of instructions 18. SPRINGSTEEN refused to provide a sample for the preliminary breath test.
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All this sounds a bit condemnatory! Except you remember that 0.02 figure, which, if true, must come from a later test. The New York Times, too talked to a lawyer which, in my mind, gave the most probable explanation of what fell:
Even if a blood alcohol level is below the legal limit, it is not uncommon for a person to be charged with drunk driving based on an officer’s observation during a three-part sobriety test, according to Carmine R. Villani, a New Jersey criminal defense. lawyer with 30 years of experience in DWI cases.
“Everything is done as a whole,” said Mr Villani, who is not involved in Mr Springsteen’s case. “It simply came to our notice then. Then you can’t pass every aspect of the test. It is designed to confuse people. It is a divided test of attention. It is a stressful event and often people do not do well with them. ”
But if the blood alcohol level is finally well below 0.08 percent, the cases are often easy to resolve, Mr Villani said.
“With a .02 you shouldn’t move your heart – you wouldn’t be nervous,” he said. “On a .02, science simply does not exist. Someone is simply not affected. ”
It all came down to Springsteen stopping to talk to a fan, accordingly New York Times and now I can better understand why Springsteen went on with Advertisement jeep and seemingly normal life if people had assured him that recording a 0.02 would not present too many problems.
It goes without saying that taking a shot of tequila (or two) before riding a motorcycle is not optimal, nor do you drink on federal properties where drinking is not allowed, but especially this story is just Bruce Springsteen. Wagons like us, baby, we were born to run.