Lady drunk on vanilla extract busted in front of school.

Seriously, it’s not booze, so what’s the big deal? She obviously just needed a nap, so why not nap in front of the middle school? Who needs to stand, walk or speak to be able to drive? I cringe to think she was picking up her kid, but drunks are selfish. She has 2 previous DUIs but that doesn’t mean she has a problem, I bet she has creative, elaborate excuses for each DUI.

This is classic desperate, wheedling, drunk behavior. In an Agatha Christie book I read about a “lady” who drank herself to death on Lavender Water. Booze is booze and addicts are addicts.

A grocery receipt for 2 8-ounce bottles of vanilla extract was found in this ladies’ car. Vanilla in addition to being dainty and tasty is easily available and not subject to blue laws. I predict next she’ll take up mouthwash or wise up and become a modern addict and move on to a “back injury” and the subsequent hundreds of percocets and oxy she can get with a simple prescription.

Here’s a link to the AP’s video. I can’t embed it but it doesn’t have commercials.

Germantown Mom Released on Bond
Friday, 02 Jul 2010 | www.myfoxmemphis.com

SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. – A Germantown mother who is accused of being intoxicated by vanilla extract and Diet Coke has been released on $1,000 bond.

Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about a woman suspiciously slumped over the steering wheel in a white car parked in front of Arlington Middle School. 48-year-old Kelly Moss was in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, partially parked on the school’s driveway and the sidewalk, officers said.

According to an affidavit, Moss’s speech was slurred and fragmented and she was unable to stand or walk without assistance. She did not comply with field sobriety and blood-alcohol tests.

An officer noticed partially empty bottles of vanilla extract, labeled as 35% alcohol by volume, and Diet Coke in the front seat. They said they smelled a strong vanilla odor on the woman’s breath. A grocery receipt found in the vehicle listed two 8-ounce bottles of vanilla extract, purchased Wednesday.

Moss was charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and refusing to submit to a blood-alcohol test.

Record show this is her third DUI arrest and she is scheduled to be back in court on August 19th with an attorney.