Every once in a while, the drunk is the smart one and the cops are dead wrong. This is one of those cases.

Ok, we'll forget, for the sake of argument, that in today's case, our hero is a sub-21 person who gets intoxicated at a concert. Yes, underage drinking is a bad. Most sub-21ers lack the judgement and responsibility to safely handle their liquor, and of course, there's the whole "it's the law" thing too.

Now, on with the story. So, an Illinois teen goes to a Dave Matthews concert outside of Milwaukee and drinks a bit too much. Yup, it happens... We've all been there I'm sure. Here's where it gets interesting though. Our hero realizes he's in no condition to drive, and decides to try to sleep it off. Yes, he tries to do the responsible thing here.

Until the police show up.

They told him he needed to leave the parking lot.

He told the officer he was drunk and trying to sleep it off.

The officer ordered him to leave the parking lot anyway. He heard the young man tell him he was drunk, and ordered him to drive away anyway.

Of course, you're probably thinking, "How irresponsible to put somebody who just informed you that he was drunk out on the road where he could cause harm to himself or others."

Relax, they didn't really do that... As soon as he exited the parking lot, they arrested him for drunken driving, so nobody was put at risk by this underage drunk driver. He was ordered to spend 60 days in jail as a result.

Of course, this little thing called entrapment does come to mind. At appeals, the state argued that people who choose to drink too much can't argue that they were entrapped for driving drunk.

Umm, if you drank too much and tried to do the right thing by not driving, are then ordered to drive by a police officer whom you just informed that you considered yourself to be drunk, and then once you comply wht said order are busted for DUI, I can't think of another word to describe it BUT entrapment.

Thankfully, our hero DID get off on appeals, and was actually praised by the court for attempting to do the right thing.

No word on what happened to the arresting officers... Original story here.

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