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Tech At Least She Didn't Twitter It
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:04 PM
The Awl links to an awful story about a woman who texted her boyfriend with a frowny-face emoticon after she killed a police officer with her car. The text:
Honey, I killed a cop. I’m sorry :( What should I do?
She was drunk—she split six liters of beer with a friend before driving—but she must be complimented on her texting-while-drunk ability. The Awl suggests that she should at least have put a tear in her emoticon— :'( —before texting. Photos of the texter-manslaughterer and the crime scene are here.
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Think about the size of a two liter bottle of soda.
Now imagine three of those. It's a fairly large amount of beer.
Now imagine three of those. It's a fairly large amount of beer.
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She split 6 liters so she had 3 liters. Three liters is approx 101.4 ounces. So she had roughly 8 1/2 cans of beer. The text message was in Russian, the emoticon was not.
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@4 Six liters is actually 12 pints.
@1-3 The text was actually in Russian and translated to English. I can't read Russian, but there's a screencap of the text at the source that has the emoticon in it.
And if there is, as the man said, truth in alcohol, this woman is a grade-A sociopath who probably needs to be locked away for a lot longer than three years.
@1-3 The text was actually in Russian and translated to English. I can't read Russian, but there's a screencap of the text at the source that has the emoticon in it.
And if there is, as the man said, truth in alcohol, this woman is a grade-A sociopath who probably needs to be locked away for a lot longer than three years.
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@7, yes, but the punctuation is still the same, and still too perfect to be quite believable.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
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@1 The text was written in Russian and translated to English, so whoever translated it probably cleaned up any spelling errors. Also, a lot of new cell phones auto-correct spelling errors.
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Electra, look at the screencap. I don't read Russian either, but she's taken the care to put two commas in.
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Ahhh... 1 liter = 2+ US (liquid) pints. I was confused. You'd think I'd look these things up before posting, but you'd be wrong.
I don't know if her sentence would have greatly differed in our system, but at least she's going to Russian jail. That's gotta suck way worse.
I don't know if her sentence would have greatly differed in our system, but at least she's going to Russian jail. That's gotta suck way worse.
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@14, not only is she going to a Russian jail, she's even in Siberia. I wonder if they still use the old Siberian prison camps...
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Leave it to Slog to determine the actual consumption in imperial and metric units.
Can we convert it to ounces and then make a determination of her BAC based on the average alcohol content of russian beers?
Can we convert it to ounces and then make a determination of her BAC based on the average alcohol content of russian beers?
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Of course you're all assuming that they split the six liters evenly. Maybe this one has the lion's share of it. Hmm...
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@16
You would have to know how much she weighs first. Sounds like a real winner, though--the Daisy Buchanan of the texting age.
You would have to know how much she weighs first. Sounds like a real winner, though--the Daisy Buchanan of the texting age.
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It's not a joke. This story is all over the Russian internet and media.
They also show a screencap of a text response from her boyfriend on the web site of Novosibirsk's equivalent of the state patrol: "Act hysterical. Don't say or sign anything."
They also show a screencap of a text response from her boyfriend on the web site of Novosibirsk's equivalent of the state patrol: "Act hysterical. Don't say or sign anything."
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Remember also, 1 typical bar pint << 1 US fluid pint.
In other news, what NW notable recently declared "I went for the brake, but my foot slipped off the brake and hit the gas"?
In other news, what NW notable recently declared "I went for the brake, but my foot slipped off the brake and hit the gas"?
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Putting my knowledge of Russian to use, the text says "hun, i killed a cop, sorry :( what should i do?"
On the regional traffic police website, it says that she's arrested and charged with drunk driving, resulting in a death. It carries a maximum sentence of 7 years.
The saddest part is that the police officer she killed has two young kids :(
On the regional traffic police website, it says that she's arrested and charged with drunk driving, resulting in a death. It carries a maximum sentence of 7 years.
The saddest part is that the police officer she killed has two young kids :(
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Well, it was Russia, so the cop was probably on his way to or from a mafia-sponsored assassination anyway.
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It's awfully tragic, but what I find most disturbing is that she's apologizing and asking for instructions from her owner/boyfriend. It's only fair that he go to jail for not controlling his property, amirite? Or does he only reap the benefits of human ownership and not the responsibilities? I need an update on Russian patriarchy.
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