It Explains Her Delivery -

It Explains Her Delivery - Cacklin' Katherine Lanpher has been charged with DWI and leaving the scene of an accident, after an April 12 incident in St. Paul:

Lanpher, 43, of St. Paul, was charged Tuesday with two counts of gross misdemeanor drunken driving and one misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident.

At the time of her arrest, Lanpher's blood-alcohol level was 0.21 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.10 percent, according to a Ramsey County criminal complaint.

No one was injured in the April 12 incident. Lanpher is accused of hitting a car while turning onto a street shortly after midnight.

Now, as Lanpher is not only a radio person (of sorts) but a former newspaperwoman, I'm wondering - at a .21 BAC, she should hardly have been showing symptoms. Most newspaper people don't start to slur their speech until they get to about .4.

OK, seriously: this brings up a couple of questions:

• It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in court; will Lanpher get "Community Service" that involves interviewing MADD people on her show?
• If MPR staff start drinking less, will it harm the Twin Cities' hospitality community? Seriously - some of those people are fish. No, I'm not naming names.

I'm not going to say "Behold, the liberal high priestess of enlightenment who feels she's above the law".

But if one of you says it, that's just fine.

UPDATE: An email correspondent writes: "Behold, the liberal high priestess of enlightenment who feels she's above the law".

Posted by Mitch at April 30, 2003 03:13 PM