Oh, yeah - walk home - leave the car to be hit by some poor schmuck in the middle of the night.
They were trying to get it to that motel parking lot. I'm buttuming that there was likely a big ditch up along the road preventing them from just getting it off on the shoulder - probably no shoulder. If there was a shoulder, I'm sure they would have used it - its not like they enjoyed pushing that car...
The account in the report says after they got it into the motel parking lot, it hit an irregularity in the surface, stopped, rolled back, and they were unable to catch it. That's entirely plausible.
Women Busted for DUI For Pushing Car 1863What it bears on is your inconsistency, then, as you cannot give the pbuttenger any legal or moral option once the engine quits. Remember, up until the engine quit, the pbuttenger...
What the hell have you been smoking, anyhow? That's an entirely rational response to the emergency. They did exactly what should have been done and thanks to your spouting off in this paragraph, we now know that they had much better judgement smashed than you have sober (or are you really smoking something?) The number 1, overriding priority for a car stalled in the road in the dark is to get it out of the road to make the road safe for the remaining traffic - that applies no matter what condition they are in - stoned, sloshed, damn near unconscious - it doesn't matter, the car has to be moved. Since they were the only ones there to move it, they did the exact right thing.
And I finally see where you're coming from - you're a prohibitionist as big as those in the 20's, and enjoy using this back-door strategy to punish drunks for basically being drunk, no matter whether they're riding, driving, walking, skateboarding, maybe even still sitting at the bar, etc. A sense of fairness is not in your vocabulary. Fine - now at least I understand it. It all pieces together like a big puzzle, and leads me to conclude that using fairness in addressing this issue with you is futile. This, for you, is all just another opportunity to "get" a drunk.
Dave Head