Yet another athlete who should have hired a driver (from the New York Post):
Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards was busted on a drunken driving charge early this morning, after cops pulled him over on the West Side and found he had double the legal limit of alcohol in his system, police said.
Edwards, 27, was arrested at 5:15 a.m. and charged with DWI, after cops pulled over his Range Rover at 34th Street and 12th Avenue for having overly-tinted windows. Police said they smelled alcohol and Edwards blew a 0.16 on a Breathalyzer, or double the state’s legal limit of 0.08.
It isn’t the first time Edwards has run afoul of the law. In October, just before he was traded to the Jets from the Browns, Edwards punched a friend of LeBron James outside a Cleveland nightclub.
Edwards settled the case by pleading no contest to aggravated assault. He received a suspended 180-day jail sentence, and was fined $1,000 and placed on probation.
Every time an athlete is charged with drunken driving, my coworker John Paulsen points out how easy it would be for athletes just to hire a driver. And I couldn’t agree more; why risk it? Why risk millions of dollars and potentially hurt someone else when you could have just paid for a personal driver? Or gotten a cab?
Stupid, stupid, stupid. We all make mistakes, but these types of arrests can always be avoided.
