Sambora's Daughter in the Car During DUI

46. Why wasn't this girl in BED at 11pm?? Doesn't she go to school?

Posted at 5:41PM on Mar 26th 2008 by Morris

47. rehab, Betty Ford Clinic is waiting Your Arrival ! Prayer is what will get his thru this crisis
can't beat a dog, when he is down ! We all have skeletons in our closets !!! Just, open the door !

Posted at 5:44PM on Mar 26th 2008 by Gina

48. I hate it when celebrities are in Betty Ford. I live about three miles from it. It's adjacent to the acute care hospital and the paps make it hard for even the ambulances to get in and out. Celebrities should go to more private facilities.

Posted at 5:52PM on Mar 26th 2008 by No way..

49. JoJo - Anybody who has had a few beers or 3 mixed drinks (which you say will bring their blood alcohol level to the legal limit) is taking a great risk with their own and others' lives if they get behind the wheel of a car. Plenty of people manage to get home safely regardless, but they're just lucky and someday that luck may run out.

Typically someone actually charged with a DUI has driven drunk before many times. The police can't be everywhere, scrutinizing people's driving and trying to decide whether or not to stop the car for a sobriety test. So prevention is important. The reason the consequences of a DUI need to be severe is to encourage people to take steps while they are still sober so they won't even try to drive home drunk - after you're drunk, it's too late to expect a sensible decision. The consequences of a DUI arrest also might help people get up the courage to take the car keys away from a friend at the right time.

The legal limit is just the level at which it is virtually no contest to be charged with a DUI if you are noticed by police. Saves a lot of pointless arguments in court.

But you can be charged with DUI with blood alcohol below the legal limit if your driving is impaired and you fail the field sobriety tests. Many people are impaired drivers well before that legal limit - it's very individual, depends also on weight, how much food is in your stomach, etc. as well as the road conditions and traffic. My mother would practically be under the table with one glass of chianti if she hadn't eaten yet, for example. I've been sober around people of all sizes and ages and both genders who have had just one drink, and it's obvious that they are not as alert even at that point. If you're drinking along with them and so have a similar amount of alcohol in your system, you might think otherwise -- but that feeling of false confidence is the effect of the alcohol on you, also.

Some people may be able to drive safely above the legal limit for blood alcohol, but they have to prove it by the way they drive and, if stopped, by the field sobriety tests. In this case, the blood alcohol level is irrelevant because he failed the field sobriety tests and also was driving badly. If he hadn't been swerving (a classic sign of a drunk driver), he never would have attracted the attention of the police in the first place. So unless the police are doing spot checks, the rare person who truly can "drink and drive" safely won't be stopped

Save your sympathy for the sober passengers in the car rather than the "victims" of tough DUI laws. When I was about 16, I was "driven" home from a babysitting job by a woman who was drunk as the proverbial skunk. I thought I was going to die that night. Not a police car in sight, unfortunately. The only reason we both survived (besides a lot of luck) was that she was the only one on the road, except for lots of trees that were just barely missed as she swerved from one side to the other.

Posted at 6:09PM on Mar 26th 2008 by jwoolman

50. TO NUMBER 21

"14 Your usage of the term, "White Trash" is incorrect in this case. Technically, Sambora isn't "white"; he's Latin, as evidenced by his surname, S-A-M-B-O-R-A. But he's still trash, no matter what the ethnicity.

And why don't y'all use the term, "Black Trash" or "Latin Trash" or "Asian Trash"? Is it just white people who can be trash? RACISTS!"


YOU EFFING MORON.....HE'S POLISH AND ITALIAN FOR ONE. FOR TWO IM WHITE SO I CAN CALL ANOTHER WHITE PERSON WHITE TRASH IF I CHOOSE.

Love #14

Posted at 6:44PM on Mar 26th 2008 by snowchick

51. I think Heather and Ritchie both have booze problems..Better ring up Dr. Phil or Dr. Drew......Poor kid, Ava, good luck with those 2 as parents........

Posted at 7:58PM on Mar 26th 2008 by Enlightened

52. # 49, YOU MORON, SAMBORA IS ITALIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not every last name that ends in a vowel is latin. Think before you write...Your ignorance is showing........

Posted at 8:00PM on Mar 26th 2008 by Enlightened

53. Love the pic...looks like he's wiping his ass.

Posted at 8:03PM on Mar 26th 2008 by Stevo

54. Heather is just as responsible for her daughter being in the vehicle with a drunk. She knows what he is like and yet, she allows him unsupervised visits?...but, then again, she has her own issues, doesn't she?

Posted at 8:26PM on Mar 26th 2008 by djdw61

55. I developed an admiration for Richie last summer when he sought help for his drinking problem. I admired him for realizing he had a problem and he needed to clean up for his daughter. He inspired me to face my own addiction and do something about it. Now I'm rather disappointed in him for not being able to stick with his sobriety for Ava. I still do credit him with helping me though...and that's a good thing.

Posted at 8:37PM on Mar 26th 2008 by Soulmate

56. #53 - So she should instead violate his custody rights and get her custody rights taken away because she fears he might...go out with a sober adult and 2 children to dinner and unwisely drive his car? Damn her for not using her ESP, then using her mind control to force a judge to allow HER to designate Sambora only having supervised visits! Shame!

Posted at 12:29AM on Mar 27th 2008 by What?

57. Sombrero is definitely a Mexican name.

Posted at 12:30AM on Mar 27th 2008 by Carlos

58. He needs to be killed.

Posted at 1:42AM on Mar 27th 2008 by joan crawford

59. I meant having a few beers or "2" not 3 mixed drinks will get you arrested for DWI with the BAC @ .08, I know because all my nieces and nephews friends under age 25 have one, they were punished big time here in NJ anyway. I just think things went from one extreme to another in the last 10-15 years, I personally never drink so it is not an issue 4 me but I saw some of thse young people's lives get ruined when they were not drunk and drank very little, you don't always know U R over the limit till u r tested with the breath test, I am not talking about the fall down drunks who do this over & over again, they derserve to be punished in the harshest sense. I don't know what Richie's BAC was but if it was .08 or so he may not have evne been drunk but the law says he is so??

Posted at 3:35PM on Apr 7th 2008 by JoJo

60. To Jwoolman, Point taken & thanks for not getting all over my case for taking this view point. I agree with alot you had to say but I have seen 1st hand what a 1st time DWI aresst can do to a young person who does not make it a habit to drive drunk but was unfortunate to have 2-3 drinks and drive home thinking they are not impaired in any way, I do feel for the family's who have lost loved ones to habitual drunk drivers who drive with or without a valid driver license and have no regard if they are about to kill someone, those ppl make me very angry!

Posted at 3:44PM on Mar 27th 2008 by JoJo