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Barbie Car DUI and Blawger Balance

By Eric Lipman

This morning, the Kentucky DUI Defense Lawyer blog has a post about an English gentleman who was convicted for DUI after he was pulled over driving a tricked-out pink electric Barbie car for toddlers. It's good for a chuckle, especially if you click through to the article from the Telegraph, which has stereotypically wonderful British quotes like where the defendant, Paul Hutton (a former RAF officer) says, "I was very surprised to get done for drink-driving but I was a twit to say the least." And this from one of the magistrates before whom Hutton appeared: "This is most unusual. I have never seen the like of it in 15 years on the bench." Yes, indeed, sir. Having read the blog post and clicked through to the story, though, I couldn't help but wonder about the post. The underlying article is over a month old. And it had gotten a fair amount of more timely blog coverage, for example, here, here, and here. I'm guessing that Stephen J. Isaacs, the helmsman of the Kentucky DUI Blog, has just decided that the time has come to commit himself to posting something -- anything -- on the blog every day. Prior to...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).