Is This an Idaho Thing???

[JoseCuervo]

Do a lot of houses where you live get involved in car wrecks, or is it only in Idaho that we seem to have lots of houses pulling out in front of drunk drivers?

October 31, 2008
DUI suspect crashes into Nampa home overnight
A 34-year-old Nampa woman was arrested and charged with DUI in connection with a car crash that damaged a Nampa home early Friday morning.
Cynthia Carroll was also charged with failure to provide proof of insurance. She was transported to the Canyon County jail for booking.
Nampa police were called to a car accident at 1:50 a.m. Friday to the 200 block of 17th Avenue South.
Police found a passenger car occupied by two people that had struck a house; neither the female driver or the male passenger were injured in the crash.
The residents of the house struck by the car were home at the time, but they did not suffer any injuries.
This is the second crash this week in the valley involving a DUI suspect that slammed a vehicle into a residence. In Boise early Tuesday, Steve Robert Banning, 21, was arrested on suspicion of DUI in connection with a pickup crash into a home.

It seems like once a month a house causes a car wreck at 3am.....

 

[noharleyyet]

Does Idaho have drive thru liquor stores?

 

[BillyGoat]

I know of three houses in AZ that happened to. One was in Ahwatukee down the street from where my wife lived. She was in high school at the time and I think it left an emotional scar. Later after we got married, she once veto'd buying a certain lot because of this fear. No kidding.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Does Idaho have drive thru liquor stores?

No, Idaho is controlled by a "certain" Church that doesn't endorse drinking, so the laws on liquor are quite strict.

All booze has to be sold by the State, or in a few odd areas, by a store with a contract from the State.

As such, State Liquor Dispensary stores are usually open limited hours, very few per area of population. Never late hours, never on Sunday. Election day the bars can't even sell.

In the grocery stores or Kwik-E-Marts they have to quit selling at either 1am or 2am, and the bars have to quit serving at 2am.

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

Do a lot of houses where you live get involved in car wrecks, or is it only in Idaho that we seem to have lots of houses pulling out in front of drunk drivers?

It seems like once a month a house causes a car wreck at 3am.....

Heck, If you had 5 wives telling you to turn everywhich way at the same time you would wreck too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! John

 

[noharleyyet]

No, Idaho is controlled by a "certain" Church that doesn't endorse drinking, so the laws on liquor are quite strict.

All booze has to be sold by the State, or in a few odd areas, by a store with a contract from the State.

As such, State Liquor Dispensary stores are usually open limited hours, very few per area of population. Never late hours, never on Sunday. Election day the bars can't even sell.

In the grocery stores or Kwik-E-Marts they have to quit selling at either 1am or 2am, and the bars have to quit serving at 2am.

Oh...so separation of church and state in Idaho is by address only.

 

[Dinkshooter]

I thought all "homes" in Idaho were on wheels anyway?

 

[ELKCHSR]

LMAO Dink!!!

 

[JoseCuervo]

Again, this weekend, another house causes a traffic accident......

A 31-year-old Meridian man accused of driving drunk and causing over $85,000 in damage to a home and several vehicles after losing control of his car Sunday night is being held in the Ada County Jail on a felony DUI charge.

Jeffery Kirk Lamm is also charged misdemeanor counts of driving without privileges and failure to have insurance.

Meridian police say Lamm was driving in the 2200 block of W. Sunny Slope Drive, located in the Cherry Lane/Linder Road neighborhood, around 10:40 p.m. Sunday when he lost control of the car while going around a curve.

The car hit a home and then smashed into three vehicles in the driveway — including a pickup truck, a Ford SUV, and a stock car — causing damage to everything, according to police.

Witnesses said the driver, later identified as Lamm, then ran away. Police called to the scene found him about a block away, where he was arrested without incident, according to reports.

Lamm failed field sobriety tests and a breath test indicated he was over the legal limit of .08, Lt. Bob Stowe said.

No one in the home was hurt but the damage to the home and the vehicles totaled more than $85,000, Stowe said.

Lamm will make his initial court appearance later Monday.

 

[ARCAT]

we just had a house pull out in front of a semi yesterday here in Arkansas. made quite a mess of things.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Guess what happened this weekend? Yep, another wreckless house....

December 07, 2008
Man charged with DUI after truck hits Boise house

A 34-year-old man was jailed on drunken-driving charge Sunday after his pickup slammed into a home where the residents were sleeping.
Benjamin R. Lister also is charged with misdemeanor leaving the scene of an accident.
Residents in the 1300 block of North 11th Street were awakened by a loud crash about 2:15 a.m. Sunday.
“A small child was sleeping very near to the impact point,” Boise police Lt. Alan Cavener said, but no one was injured.
The driver backed the truck up and was leaving the scene when police arrived. The truck’s front license plate was torn off during the crash and was found outside the home, Cavener said.
The home was severely damaged, he said, but its heavy concrete foundation prevented the pickup from actually entering the home.

 

[Wyodeerhunter]

They say 90 percent of accidents happen within 10 miles of home ...

BTW a study ranked Idaho as having the worst drivers. Go figure.

 

[A-con]

It happens in Fresno, Calif also.
A former Fresno State football player got so drunk he ran in to an appartment.
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"A Fresno County judge has sentenced an NFL player to 30 days in a work program after a jury found him guilty of drunken driving and hit and run.

The verdict and sentence against Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Jason Shirley were handed down Monday.
Police say the former Fresno State football player had a blood-alcohol level of 0.12, above the legal limit of 0.08, on Oct. 8, 2007, when they say he crashed into a Fresno apartment and fled the scene."

 

[Moosie]

I'm not interested untill the 2nd story of a house makes a car crash into it

 

[Whiskers]

I have never run into an apartment or house, but I did RUN into a bar, several times, but they usually throw me out at closing time.

 

[BillyGoat]

Haha. Here's another one for you, Jose...

Driver who crashed into Boise apartment complex late Sunday arrested on suspicion of DUI
Katy Moeller - [email protected]
Published: 04/27/09

Phillip Labrum, 30, of Boise was charged with aggravated DUI after the 11:30 p.m. crash Sunday, according to Boise Police Lt. Alan Cavener.

No one in the apartment complex in the 1100 block of Belmont was injured, but a female passenger in Labrum's car was taken to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries, Cavener said.

Police say Labrum was driving west on Belmont on Sunday night at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the apartment complex. Cavener said the damage to the building was substantial.

 

[Whiskers]

No, Idaho is controlled by a "certain" Church that doesn't endorse drinking, so the laws on liquor are quite strict.

I don't think that plan is working as well as they thought it would.

Ocean City NJ, bills itself as a family oriented town, and there are no liqour stores or bars in it. Its on an island, and the three roads leading to the island are full of bars, and liqour stores. More drunks in that town, than anyplace else.

 

[JoseCuervo]

I'm not interested untill the 2nd story of a house makes a car crash into it

Are you interested now that a Mormon Church caused the wreck this weekend????

Nampa police say the woman who drove her car into the side of a church Monday morning sustained what appear to be non life-threatening injuries.

Police say they are investigating if alcohol could have been a factor in the crash but had not charged the driver as of Monday morning.

Nampa police were sent to a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building at 6111 Birch Lane just before 6 a.m. Monday and found a car smashed into the side of the chuch.

Police determined the car was going eastbound on Birch Lane when the driver lost control of the car, which went through a fence before hitting the side of the building.

The impact did not appear to harm the structural integrity of the building, police say.

The female driver of the car was taken to Mercy Medical Center by ambulance.

The accident is still under investigation.

 

[BillyGoat]

It has happened once again... amazing.

76-year-old Caldwell woman hurt after car crashes into her living room
- Idaho Statesman
Published: 03/31/10

Faye L. Dunlap is being treated at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Wednesday after a car smashed into the living room of her Caldwell home following a four car pileup near the Caldwell Boulevard/45th Street intersection Tuesday night.

A 34-year-old woman and a 6-year-old girl, who were in one of the cars involved in the crash, were also taken to Saint Al’s for treatment along with the 76-year-old Dunlap, according to Idaho State Police reports.

The crash occurred around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Idaho State Police say 23-year-old Nick J. Nettleton of Nampa was driving a white 1999 Chevrolet pickup east on Caldwell Blvd near 45th St. when Nettleton’s pickup crossed through the center turn lane and into the path of westbound traffic. Investigators say two drivers going west on Caldwell Boulevard — Sherran A. Davis, 66, of Caldwell and Juan E. Capetillo, 34, of Nampa — both attempted to avoid Nettleton’s pickup, resulting in a collision between their two vehicles, a Toyota Corolla car and Chevy Silverado truck. Investigators say Tracy J. Schroeder, 34, of Caldwell was also driving west on Caldwell Boulevard and swerved the car to her right to avoid a collision, but her car was struck in the driver's side by Nettleton's pickup. The force of that collision caused Nettleton's pickup to go a sidewalk, across the grass, and through the front wall of Dunlap’s house, coming to rest in the living room, striking the 76-year-old woman.

Schroeder was also taken to the hospital following the crash.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused Nettleton to lose control of his pickup but have ruled out alcohol as a factor. No charges had been filed by Wednesday morning.

 

[montanadogs]

Weird how buildings can move so quickly.