Drunk-Driving Mother Claims She Had No Choice
What do you do when you've knocked back a few beers, your husband's more soused than you are, and you've got five kids crammed into a mid-sized sedan to take care of? Why, you start driving everyone home, of course! At least, that's if your name is Susan Kristofferson. WCBS reports the 39-year-old Putnam County mother was arrested early Monday morning for drunk driving and child endangerment as she headed home with her family from a festival, making her the county's second DWI mom this week. A deputy sheriff pulled Kristofferson over because of her broken headlight, but things got complicated when he smelled alcohol. Kristofferson offered this touching explanation of her Solomon-like predicament: "My husband was 10 times drunker than I was. I had two kids left with me that weren't even mine that I had no intention of driving home in the first place. It was either let my husband drive and kill everybody or leave those two kids abandoned." That, or, ya know, call a cab. Still, even if she says she had no choice but drive drunk, Kristofferson's not going to let these charges stand because "the evidence against her is circumstantial." Sure, her blood alcohol tested above the legal limit and, sure, she failed sobriety tests in front of everyone in the car, but, pssht—what could that possibly prove?
