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eof [soylentnews.org] writes:

Here is another example of self-inflicted (and deserved) trouble stemming from obsession with social media. The Lakeland, Florida, Ledger reports on a 23 year old woman who broadcast her drunk driving while acknowledging how "not cool" drunk driving is. [theledger.com][video included]

A Lakeland woman discovered that driving and streaming live videos on social media while intoxicated is an excellent way to get caught.

“I'm driving home drunk,” Whitney Beall said in one of her videos Saturday. “Let's see if I get a DUI. I don't think I will.”

She was wrong.

[...]Beall has gained national attention after using a social media application called Periscope to stream the entire incident on the Internet, said Lakeland Police Department Sgt. Gary Gross. The videos stay on the site for only 24 hours, but a detective was able to capture and use them as evidence.

[...When stopped] Beall refused the breathalyzer test and failed the field sobriety test — Gross said she fell over at one point during the test.

The police were alerted by some viewers and, after they figured out what Periscope is, they tracked her down using landmarks seen in the streaming broadcast.

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