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Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts) Sun Apr 22, 2012, 11:17 AM Apr 2012

DUI with tractor nets prison (blood-alcohol level of .301 )

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120422/NEWS97/120429962#dui-with-tractor-nets-prison

Published Sunday April 22, 2012

MADISON — A Battle Creek man who drove his tractor through Norfolk with a blood-alcohol level of .301 was sent to prison Friday and ordered to receive treatment.

Erik J. Vogel, 39, was sentenced by Judge James Kube to two to four years in prison on a conviction of driving under the influence of alcohol-third offense in Madison County District Court on Friday.

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DUI with tractor nets prison (blood-alcohol level of .301 ) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2012 OP

A punishment that fits the crime if you ask me. Four times the legal limit as a third offense? cherokeeprogressive Apr 2012 #1

.301??? How is he still alive??? Initech Apr 2012 #2

I know! That's a potentially lethal BAC Quantess Apr 2012 #3

I've had many a drunken escapades in my life - never reached that level. Initech Apr 2012 #5

This is one of those guys I talk about, pretty much a hopeless case. Archae Apr 2012 #4

0.3??? How is he still alive??? Odin2005 Apr 2012 #6

cherokeeprogressive

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1. A punishment that fits the crime if you ask me. Four times the legal limit as a third offense?

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Apr 22, 2012, 01:52 PM

Apr 2012

You'd think he'd learn.

Two to four years works out to what... 10 months?

$1000 fine seems a little weak; the revocation of driving privileges seems about right.

Curios though, is "tractor" used to describe farm equipment or "tractor-trailer" type tractor? If it's the latter, I'd rather see his driving privileges revoked for life. Fully loaded, a tractor-trailer rig is a missile, a battering ram, and a bulldozer all wrapped into one.