all it takes is one time though

4/20/2009 2:07:22 AM

Quote :

""Waffle House waitress stood out among the rest Raleigh, N.C. — At the Hillsborough Street Waffle House, a cup of coffee was sure to always come with a side order of personality – if Ms. Betty was the server. "Everybody knew her, and everybody loved her," said Charles Barnette, a longtime patron. She was the restaurant's most-requested waitress. Betty Mathis Moody was her full name, but everyone called her Ms. Betty. For 28 years, the 76-year-old worked overnights, and she knew how to handle the North Carolina State University college crowd that frequented the place during her shift. "Ms. Betty always had a way of telling them, 'If y'all don't quiet down, y'all won't be eating tonight,'" co-worker Maria Winkler said. "They always had a deep respect for her. She was definitely grandma amongst us." Winkler said Ms. Betty loved her job – so much so that she would make the 80-minute commute five days a week from her home in Warrenton to Raleigh. "She always said that the day she stopped working was the day she was going to die," Winkler said. On Wednesday, Ms. Betty was driving home on U.S. Highway 401 in Wake Forest, when state troopers said, a car driven by Chad Rodman, 37, crossed the center line and collided with hers. She never made it home. "We're all gonna miss her very much," Winkler said. "I don't know if Waffle House is going to be the same without Ms. Betty here." Those who knew her said Ms. Betty also had a way of helping the homeless. She'd pay for their meal, bring them a coat or provide them a place to stay. "She did it because she obviously loved people and wanted to help them," Barnette said. Ms. Betty is survived by two daughters, two sons and 11 grandchildren. The family will host a visitation at 7 p.m. Friday at Blaylock Funeral Home in Warrenton. Her funeral is Saturday. Rodman, who was charged with driving while impaired and death by vehicle, was in jail Thursday afternoon under $25,000 bond.""

5/15/2009 12:15:11 AM

This is terrible, she was the best.

RIP

5/15/2009 9:02:29 AM

Betty MOODY

No relation to this Betty Moody, but there is a Betty Moody in my family...

5/15/2009 9:11:36 AM

only 25,000 for vehicular homicide, that is not enough.

that is only 2,500 to make bail.

5/15/2009 9:13:00 AM

I'm really surprised it was that low.

5/15/2009 10:48:36 AM

Can we collectively post bail to ... influence his future decisions?

5/15/2009 10:50:45 AM

holy shit, Ms. Betty died????


i'm actually a little choked up right now

what the fuck. screw bond that guy should die on principle

5/18/2009 3:07:53 PM

There is a difference between being "over the limit" and being "to fucked up to drive".

While a few times during college i may have passed the former i never performed the later.
Even with the former i usually drove two hands on the wheel, at speed, 100% (or 100% of my 'influenced' state on teh road), and stopping at every stop sign.

I've never understood the Johnny McFrat got pulled barreling down Avent Ferry going 90 mph or Sally ran head on into another car after crossing the grass median of western blvd.

5/18/2009 7:03:20 PM

oh my god

i loved betty

this one time i was so trashed i had to execute a pointing-only order. she was kind enough to help me through customizing my hash browns. she was the most quintessential waffle house employee I have ever seen.

Betty, you shall be missed.



[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 12:18 AM. Reason : .]

5/19/2009 12:18:11 AM

bttt

9/13/2009 12:24:55 PM

holy crap betty died

damn that sucks

9/13/2009 12:36:10 PM

heard about a young Raleigh girl getting hit by a Drunk Driver over the weekend. Is this why this was bumped?



ah just read the article on wral..how awful

[Edited on September 13, 2009 at 7:55 PM. Reason : ,]

9/13/2009 7:53:02 PM

Three dead here this weekend alone: one little old lady ran over in the parking lot, a groom on his way to his wedding, and now this 20 year old girl just driving down the road minding her own business.

These all happened at places I drive to every week. Hell, I'm scared to go out of the house these days, much less crawl on my bike.

OHHH! And then there was a drunk school bus driver somewhere nearby this week. The kids were screaming and begging her to stop. She made it to school, but decided she was too trashed to continue working so then she drove drunk home, which is when the cops finally caught her.

Oh, and a guy who posts on my motorcycle forum got killed Thursday by a guy completely trashed taking his daughter to school at 8am in the morning.

The guy that killed the 20yr/old girl was a plastic surgeon. The girl that ran over the little old lady was a mother of three. This shit is out of control.

I'm to the point now that I think we should reinstate prohibition.


[Edited on September 13, 2009 at 8:20 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2009 8:14:02 PM

ahhhh

[Edited on September 13, 2009 at 8:34 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2009 8:32:41 PM

^ can you post the article about the woman that hit the old lady at the gas station that says she was drunk? i'm having a hard time finding it - or was it on the actual news? nothing i can find says anything about intoxication and i'm really curious!

thanks

oh jk i found the wral article where the police chief "said she was impaired" - but i was kinda looking for more details. like what she blew or what the field sobriety tests concluded. hmmm.

9/13/2009 8:34:13 PM

For anyone who has been following this case is the one from the original post. (guy in first post is offender) Charges were recently upgraded to murder, victim was 17 and riding in unrelated vehicle, her car got broadsided by this guy (age 20) who was apparently completely blacked out.

Quote :

"Raleigh, N.C. — A 20-year-old Raleigh man will appear in court Monday to face upgraded charges of second-degree murder in the July 12, 2008, wreck that killed a 17-year-old Chapel Hill High School graduate. Justin Caleb Crouse, of 4612 Limerick Drive, was initially charged with felony death by motor vehicle and provisional driving while impaired after the wreck that killed Lillian "Lilli" Broox Manis. Court records show that the provisional DWI has been voluntarily dismissed, while the felony death by motor vehicle charge was upgraded to second-degree murder. Crouse also faces charges of felony assault causing serious bodily injury for injuries sustained in the wreck by Manis' boyfriend, then-17-year-old Philip Iavorov Jurov, of Durham. Since the wreck, Crouse has been cited for traffic violations in Wake County, according to court records. He is slated to appear in district court Monday for tickets for driving without a license in his possession and without two headlamps. Relatives of Manis are expected to attend the court hearing Monday. At a court appearance two days after the wreck, Manis' mother, Elizabeth, confronted Crouse's father. "I turned around to him, and I said, 'He killed my daughter. And he said, 'I'm sorry,'" she said. "But, you know, 'sorry' doesn't cut it.""

9/14/2009 9:16:41 AM

Quote :

"i think when the facts come out about this case there will be a different story (regarding the driver being intoxicated). i am close to someone who is close to this situation."

I am too. I don't see the story changing.

9/14/2009 1:23:10 PM

Was she issued one at the police station? Did they stop for a round of drinks on the way?

9/15/2009 2:33:34 PM

Quote :

"I'm to the point now that I think we should reinstate prohibition."

People would still drive drunk and you'd have many other problems, aren't you familiar with how organized crime was started?

9/15/2009 3:03:14 PM

To khcadwal:

Woman charged in fatal gas station accident appears in court
Posted: Sep. 14, 2009

Quote :

"Lillington, N.C. — A Fuquay-Varina woman wept in court Monday during her initial appearance on charges that she backed over a woman with her minivan at a gas station and killed her. Amanda Bailey Culross, 30, is charged with second-degree murder, driving while impaired, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The latter two charges stem from the fact that her three daughters, ages 4 to 8, were in the minivan at the time of the accident. The incident occurred at the Hess gas station at the intersection of N.C. Highway 27 and N.C. Highway 55 in Coats at about 3:30 p.m. Friday, authorities said. Jo Ann Bacon, 75, a retired teacher who spent 40 years in area schools, was crossing the parking lot to pay for gas when Culross' minivan hit her, police said. Culross 'had a strong odor of alcohol' and was given a blood test, according to a police report. The results aren't yet available. 'At this point in time, we stand behind that 100 percent. We do believe alcohol was involved,' Coats Police Chief Eddie Jaggers said."

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5997704/

Yeah, I find that wording from the police chief to be damned peculiar. The suspect had a recent prior DWI, too.

Don't drive drunk, but remember this if you do:

Quote :

"Authorities said charging someone with second-degree murder in a DWI crash is a question of malice. They consider factors like if a suspect [1] has a prior DWI conviction, [2] ran from police, [3] left the scene or [4] was driving in an extremely reckless fashion."

9/16/2009 4:25:12 AM

Most people would call that a bias.

Also, murder charges usually depend on whether you killed someone that people actually liked. I'd say she's fucked.

9/16/2009 1:08:34 PM

Interesting article:

Commentary: Drinking age of 21 doesn't work
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/16/mccardell.lower.drinking.age/index.html

9/16/2009 1:36:05 PM

^^^^ ahhh yea, the blood test part wasn't in the earlier articles. just the police chief quote so i was like ???

damn malice can be a previous DWI, that kinda sucks/seems odd. i mean i guess it makes sense - sort of.

9/16/2009 3:47:18 PM

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"child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor"

how did she get these charges?

9/16/2009 3:55:53 PM

kids in the car while drinking/driving i'm guessing

9/16/2009 3:59:11 PM

well if the blood test comes back as a 0.0 then the case will be dropped as murder and maybe to just criminal negligence, or even less

no use arguing about it until the results come out

9/16/2009 7:27:55 PM

Quote :

"damn malice can be a previous DWI, that kinda sucks/seems odd. i mean i guess it makes sense - sort of."

no, it makes perfect sense

if you didn't learn your lesson the first time and you get someone killed, fuck you and rot in jail

9/16/2009 10:14:57 PM

I'll vote here?

9/17/2009 2:44:47 AM

No one's posted anything about that doctor in here?

9/24/2009 11:19:23 PM

kk

9/24/2009 11:28:48 PM

In other news there is a girl on the cover of this weeks slammer magazine with the NCSU wolf sticker still on her check (from a football game I assume). Drive after consume > 21

9/24/2009 11:47:56 PM

^ I saw that at the gas station the other day and got a kick out of it.

9/24/2009 11:57:20 PM

Same here.

9/25/2009 7:58:33 AM

Before DWI charge:



After DWI charge:



The young woman he allegedly hit and killed:



[Edited on September 25, 2009 at 8:29 AM. Reason : Wow. What a tragedy--the whole thing is just awful. ]

9/25/2009 8:25:36 AM

I had a dream that I wrecked my car and got a DUI last night.

When I woke up I realized it was just a dream, but then I fell back asleep and dreamed that I went downstairs and found all of the paperwork that I left with when I got picked up from jail. It was a real headache of a dream.

9/26/2009 12:49:11 PM

^lol

There was a period last semester where i was working 40+hours a week on top of 16 credit hours. I was up for 50 hours straight and when I woke up I had a speeding ticket. It was surreal.

9/27/2009 1:33:43 PM

Quote :

" RALEIGH -- Raymond D. Cook, the plastic surgeon facing a second-degree murder charge, had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit several hours after the collision that ended the life of an aspiring professional ballerina, according to court documents released Monday. Cook was indicted Monday by a Wake County grand jury on charges of second-degree murder and driving while impaired. He is accused of driving drunk and nearly twice as fast as the posted speed limit on Sept. 11 when his Mercedes-Benz slammed into the back of a Hyundai driven by Elena Bright Shapiro, a 20-year-old from Winston-Salem in training with Carolina Ballet. A search warrant released Monday says investigators drew blood from Cook nearly two hours after the collision on Strickland Road that ended Shapiro's life. State Bureau of Investigation lab test results indicated that blood sample had an alcohol concentration of 0.19, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08, according to the warrant. The information was included in a warrant investigators applied for to search Cook's iPhone. Officers investigating the crash scene near Strickland and Lead Mine roads found the black cell phone on the driver's side floorboard, according to the warrant application. Investigators hope to retrieve phone call and text records to determine whether Cook was using his phone either at the time of or shortly before the collision. "A witness statement taken in the course of this investigation reveals that Mr. Cook made a spontaneous statement which leads me to believe that Mr. Cook may have been on the phone either at the time of the crash or just prior to the crash," Officer E.J. Sweden said in the search warrant application. Efforts to reach Roger W. Smith Jr., the Raleigh lawyer representing Cook, were unsuccessful Monday. Cook, according to witnesses, was at the Raleigh Country Club in East Raleigh for at least 4-1/2 hours on Sept. 11 before he ended up at Piper's Tavern and Restaurant, a North Raleigh tavern where owners say he was refused service after stumbling in the dining room. Billy McGee and Jimmy Powers, owners of Piper's, said Cook appeared to be intoxicated when he arrived at their bar on Falls of Neuse Road about 7 p.m. Friday. Piper's owners have said Cook turned down offers from a manager at the tavern to get him a ride home. Tavern employees said the doctor left the tavern about 8:15 p.m. with a woman with whom he had been sitting. Cook, who surrendered his medical license and gave up posts at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Wake Med, is out on bail. "

9/29/2009 12:06:14 PM

Quote :

"Amanda Bailey Culross, 30, is charged with second-degree murder, driving while impaired, child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor."

No matter how bad drinking driving is or how many people are hurt/kill IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM do I think people
should be charged with 2nd degree murder for killing someone while driving under the influence. This goes with other
forms of felony murder too. Murder should solely be reserved as acts conducted with malicious intent and everything else manslaughter.
Just because i'm conducting a felony drug deal, the cops roll up, I flee and hit a little girl while running from the cops; does not make
me a murderer anymore than the grandma who forgot to put on her reading glasses and nails 3 first graders standing at a bus stop.
They have a charge called manslaughter for this purpose.

On the same not I think the "Hate Crime" suffix that the NAACP or courts try to slap onto a normal case b.c the victim is black/hispanic/gay/whatever
is garbage too. If I assault someone no matter if its b.c they looked at me funny, slept with my wife, or i just don't like the way they smell or look
the punishment should stay the same.

9/30/2009 8:38:18 AM

^^That's a good example. The first drug dealing scenario shows a gross recklessness showing that you don't car about humans live; only your self preservation. The second elderly scenario just is too broad.

9/30/2009 12:05:53 PM

Oh man, your post contains like 15 separate fails.

Anyway, I agree with HUR. They already have crimes for exactly those situations, and they're not murder.

9/30/2009 1:48:38 PM

WOW. I needed to proof that post Can we have that post deleted?

9/30/2009 3:44:55 PM

Quote :

"Law could leave drunken drivers high and dry By Josh Richman Oakland Tribune Posted: 10/12/2009 03:45:03 PM PDT Updated: 10/13/2009 04:57:28 AM PDT Alameda County DUI offenders will have to drive sober or not at all, as a state law signed Sunday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger requires that blood-alcohol breath testers be installed in their vehicles. Assembly Bill 91 by Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, creates a five-and-a-half year Department of Motor Vehicles pilot project starting in July in Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Tulare counties. Convicted drunken drivers will be required to pay fees set by the DMV to cover installation — which can cost as much as $200 — and maintenance of the ignition interlock devices, which won't let a vehicle start unless the driver blows into the device's tube and has a blood-alcohol content of less than .08 percent. First-time offenders would have to use the device for five months, or one year if the DUI caused an injury; second-time offenders for one year, or two years for a DUI with injury; third-time offenders for two years, or three years for a DUI with injury; and fourth- or subsequent-time offenders for three years, or four years for a DUI with injury. A legislative analysis of the bill said it will cost about $300,000 to start the program, plus annual costs of $500,000 to $800,000, but the bill specifies that if nonstate money — such as anti-drunken-driving funds from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — isn't found to pay these costs, the program won't be launched. The bill requires the DMV to study results in the four counties and report to the Legislature on the program's effectiveness by the start of 2015. Other states already requiring these devices for first-time DUI offenders include West Virginia, Washington, Virginia, New Mexico, Illinois, Colorado and Alaska. Several have reported sharp drops in alcohol-related traffic deaths and repeat DUI offenses. Feuer's office said the four counties were chosen to represent diverse areas of the state — north and south, urban and rural — but also for having significant DUI troubles. The American Beverage Institute, a restaurant trade association that says it represents more than 700 California restaurants, had opposed the bill, saying both that the state's focus should be on serial DUI offenders, not first-timers, and that the program would cost more to run than the legislative analysis predicted."

10/13/2009 11:08:52 AM

I agree with HUR; however, I would suggest that they add a new crime called Vehicular Manslaughter while Under the Influence and give it the same punishment as 2nd Degree Murder. Seriously, fuck drunk drivers.

10/13/2009 12:48:40 PM

my little brother was friends with the ballet dancer.

10/14/2009 12:18:41 AM

^3

that program is bullshit.

for starts 4th time offenders blah blah blah...are you kidding me? someone who gets convicted for the 4th time gets this device and that is their only punishment? that is legislative fail in and of itself.

likewise, CA has pleas available for DUI, meaning that a lot of low level (.1 and under) are decreased to a wet reckless and that doesn't carry any where near the same weight.

this legislation would be protective on paper and paper only, in actuality it'll do absolutely nothing.

10/14/2009 9:22:21 AM

Anybody remember this one?




http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2919751/

10/14/2009 9:27:32 AM

what i took from that was use Russell Dement*.

Cops know which lawyer is the right one to use and which one isn't.



*although i stand firmly by my recommendation of james crouch fro anyone who is interested or needs legal representation.

10/14/2009 9:42:06 AM

Quote :

"Man, ejected from overturned car onto Beltline, dies Posted: Today at 6:44 a.m. Updated: Today at 4:16 p.m. A 21-year-old man died in a single-vehicle wreck when he was thrown from the Jones Franklin Road overpass into the median of Interstate 440 early Sunday, Raleigh police said. The wreck report says that shortly before 3 a.m., Edward James Smith, of Wake Forest, was going north on Jones Franklin at 75 mph when his 2003 Acura sedan began to move erratically from side to side. The car smacked into the guardrail on the opposite side of the road, then rotated clockwise and struck the concrete face of the bridge over I-440, the report says. That caused the car to overturn. Smith, who wasn't wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle, thrown off the bridge and landed in the median of the interstate below, according to the report. The car stopped upside down in the northbound lanes of Jones Franklin. Smith was transported to WakeMed but died as a result of his injuries. The Inner Beltline was closed temporarily while crews cleared the scene. The speed limit for Jones Franklin is 35 mph. Copyright 2009 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."

It hasn't been established yet but 75 in a 35 on jones franklin and no seat belt at 3 AM

if you already don't drink and drive

don't be dumb and drive either.

was this a state student btw? 21 year old close to campus?

10/25/2009 6:22:43 PM

I saw the wreckage of that this morning.

10/25/2009 6:25:24 PM