May 31, 2008
Kiss of Breath: Teen Arrested for DWI Blames Macking
Gianna Vigliotti was swept up in Nassau County's DWI crackdown and campaign to publicly announce DWI arrests (with arrestees' names, hometowns and mugshots) in order to deter drunk driving, but it turns out the 17-year-old resident told the police her Memorial Day weekend DWI was all a mistake.
According to Newsday, Vigliotti blew a 0.15 blood alcohol level (the legal limit is 0.08) but apparently told the cop who pulled her over, "I didn't drink! I was kissing a boy who was drunk." The cop, though, found Vigliotti to be slurring and "four full beer bottles under the passenger seat of her Volkswagen and an empty beer can in her purse."
A lawyer for Vigliotti, who has a court appearance on June 18, criticized the decision to distribute her arrest information to the media, "To now have it publicized is not only embarrassing, but demeaning as well." Hopefully other people have taken Nassau County's DWI Wall of Shame to heart--Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi's office announced the program will continue this weekend and may do so for the foreseeable future. Suozzi spokeswoman Jennifer Kim told Newsday, "I imagine that we will be continuing to do this for a little while."
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The 0.15 wasn't all she blew that night.
HEYYYYYOOOO!
Teens tend to be stupid by default, but if this girl is embarrassed, it's because she continues to keep her mug in the paper with the stupidest excuse I've ever heard. What kind of girl keeps an empty beer can in her purse? A drunk girl. Great place to hide it kid. A cop who pulls you over would never ask you to retrieve your license from your purse, where you're stashing your empties. Derrr.
Good one matty.
She is obviously a mastermind in the art of deception and escape...
She looks 40.
Matty, that was really good! haha
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If we starter arresting every Long Island woman who keeps a beer in their purse, we'd overrun the jails.
"I imagine that we will be continuing to do this for a little while."
A little while? Try for the foreseeable future. Human nature won't change. There will always be people who think they won't be caught and some who just don't care.
She had a blood alcohol level almost *twice* the legal limit just by kissing a boy who was drunk?
My question is: so what was the blood alcohol level of the boy? (He must be comatose.)
By her looks, as well as her arguement, the boy also had zits and a nasty urinary infection.
Why are people dumb enough to keep empties in their car??
It's easy to bash her, but EVERYONE is innocent, until proven guilty, even on Long Island.
When a person they embarrass and cannot convict sues them for millions , then the Nassau County's DWI Wall of Shame is over.
@leonwestbrook She's not dumb, she's environmentally conscious. She was going to recycle those cans after she got home.
LMAO @ ANGRY White boy- Youre just pissed you and your alcoholic friends are going to be plastered on the front of every newpaper when you get arrested for Drunk Driving. Before the cops arrest you, they use a breathalyzer to make sure you are drunk.
Breathalyzer evidence is just as Bulletproof as DNA evidence. These people ARE guilty of drunk driving- the Breathalyzer never lies.
@ANGRYGOD11: She was arrested for it. Any arrest is public knowledge. The public has knowledge of it.
Also, anything you say can and will be used against you. Perhaps this woman might have been better off keeping her mouth shut.
Any arrest is public knowledge. However, to use taxpayers' money to publicly humiliate them before any conviction puts Nassau County in a bad position of using more tax money to defend themselves and pay out when they lose. And they will lose at some point. How can anyone get a fair trial with their faces already on a billboard?
Breathalyzer evidence is NOT always bulletproof. You don't know what equipment is used, if the person was correctly trained, if that person was using the equipment was using it correctly at the time, ect. And can a dunk minor even consent to a test in the first place?
AFTER A CONVICTION, Nassau County can give out T-Shirts with these idiots' faces.
This sounds like a case for Mythbusters! I hereby submit my request to be the drunk guy making out with the sober young lady.