A 23-year-old Florida woman was arrested on Saturday after using the live video streaming app Periscope to broadcast her driving drunk.
Whitney Marie Beall, who was also found to be driving on a flat tire, presented her followers with a 25 minute long broadcast (seen below) filled with profanity as detailed by The Smoking Gun:
At the outset of her broadcast, Beall announced, “Hi, guys…I’m driving home drunk. Let’s see if I get a DUI. In the USA, people! Let’s see if I get a DUI. I don’t think I will. I really don’t, because I live on back roads.”
Videos of Beall’s 25-minute Periscope broadcast–which are filled with curse words–can be found below. At the 11:40 mark of the first clip, Beall strikes a traffic sign, which appears to cause a flat tire.
As she drove around Lakeland, a city outside Tampa, Beall declared, “I am fucking drunk and this is horrible” and “Drunk driving is not cool.” While remarking that, “I’m on a flat tire,” Beall also made sure to note that the song playing on her car stereo was “super hot.”
Luckily, several people watching the Beall’s broadcast alerted police by calling 911. Police also noted that numerous text messages were sent to Beall begging her to pull over and viewers on Periscope sent messages including, “get out of the road dumdum”, “drunk hoe, drunk hoe, it’s off to jail you go”, and “hope you hit a tree bitch.”
Police did catch up to Beall and pulled her over (though not before she hit a curb). Officers noted that Beall smelled of alcohol and appeared disoriented. She then failed a series of field sobriety tests and was arrested for drunk driving.
