DUI in a stolen motorized Wal-Mart shopping cart

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Source: The Napa Valley Register

Marcos Urbano may have taken Wal-Mart’s customer service a little too far.

Around 9 p.m. Tuesday, a Napa police officer spotted something unusual driving toward him in the northbound fast lane of Soscol Avenue, north of Lincoln Avenue.
As he approached the object, he discovered it was a motorized shopping cart for the disabled, worth $3,000 from Wal-Mart on Lincoln Avenue.

The officer stopped the driver — Urbano — who apparently had driven the cart from the store northbound on Soscol, police said.
Urbano, 24, of Napa, was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft, driving under the influence and not possessing a valid drivers license.

“It was a dangerous situation. The cart doesn’t have any lights and it was dark, and he was in the fast lane of the roadway,” Napa Police Sgt. Tom Pieper said.


http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2009/01/21/news/local/doc4977b8a463e68463083751.txt

[Auggie]

1. He was lucky he wasn't killed...

Soscal is a major street in Napa. And people drive like maniacs.

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3. Tell me about it; I lived in Napa for almost 40 years.

Soscol, Jefferson, Trancas... :hide:

[MajorChode]

4. He would have made a great Darwin award candidate too

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10. Yup... a classic.

[MorningGlow]

2. For the life of me

I thought your subject line was "DU in a stolen motorized Wal-Mart shopping cart"! And I thought it was entirely possible!
:rofl:

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5. It fits...at least, for the Lounge...

:rofl:

On a more serious note: The cop was right; Soscol is a major thoroughfare North-South through Napa (4 lanes) and this clown could have easily gotten killed.

[whistler162]

6. Internet access on a Walmart motorized shopping cart

cool. But what does the I stand for in Democratic Underground I?

[vard28]

7. That valid license charge won't stick

You don't have to have one to operate a motorized shopping cart. :rofl:

[Pierre.Suave]

8. but you do need one

to operate a motorized vehicle on a public road.

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9. I'm curious as to how far he actually got...

Wal-Mart is on the corner of Lincoln and Soscol, and it is several blocks before Soscol dead-ends at Trancas... :scared:

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11. kick for the nightowls