There was a cop car in a lake?

> Bambach, 52, of Fox Lake, was charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence, driving on a revoked or suspended license, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and improper stopping or parking.

Almost like the rules don't apply to her.

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Okay but she has a point. those lights are stupid bright when you're just trying to drive down the road without being blinded

Not florida? I’m really disappointed in us down here to not take this title

I don't want to make fun of her because alcoholism - yeah, I'm jumping to that conclusion based on her priors - is a disease that needs proper treatment. However, alcoholics can drink their limit in their own homes. There's no need for them to be on the road behind the wheel. That's the part of her life story that's a serious problem for others. I don't want her to go to jail, so I hope a social worker can convince her, or the judge, that she needs to be hospitalized, detoxed, and enter a treatment program.

So why are people allowed to have a car after their license is revoked, not to mention driving with no insurance. Simply impounding their vehicles would somewhat solve part of the problem. It’s the case in many other countries.

Thankfully someone spotted it because of the bright lights!

4th amendment of the constitution.

Fox lake is like Florida without the gators.

That's a hard 52. Take it easy with the booze, folks.

Agreed, law enforcement in the US likes to light up patrol cars like a goddamn Christmas tree [1]"for officer safety", but really they just create a massive distraction that increases the risk of collision or unnecessary slowdown.

[1] Even that's understating it, their lights are brighter than most xmas trees I've seen, even the lavish public ones.

She more than deserved to be arrested. Driving on no license in an uninsured car while drinking and she stops in the middle of the road to give a cop shit about his lights being bright.

As someone who grew up in Lake County, IL. I can tell you that at one point there were 2.5 bars per person in Fox Lake and Ingleside combined. Fox Lake was an old summer vacation area for the rich people of Chicago and you had two things to do there. Fishing and drinking. I'm not surprised that this happened. What I am surprised about is how the article doesn't mention how often the cops pull over drunk drivers on 59, Grand, and Rollins. Last time I was visiting family there were cops sitting outside Dino's Den (a restaurant/bar) waiting for people to leave Hello Folks (a bar across the street from Dino's) just so they could grab people that looked intoxicated leaving there.

You're not wrong.

especially if youre drunk

Yet booze is legal and marijuana is federally illegal. I hate everything.

>two counts of aggravated driving under the influence

How do you drive a car drunk twice?

Fox Lake. Where a cop embezzled from the youth program and then killed himself. But not before calling in a black guy who sent the chicago area law enforcement into a panic looking for something that didn't exist.

My favorite incident from that whole fiasco was one night, live on the news, someone's helicopter spotted some heat in the middle of a corn field....

Pretty sure every single cop in illinois and wisconsin responded and it turned out to be an electrical transformer. God they're dumb.

Can confirm, grew up just down the road, and went to school in Fox Lake.

As someone who grew up in Ingleside, or seemed to be a point of pride how many bars there were.

rare to see my hometown for anything, but this makes sense.

This is like when my high school buddy was trying to de-stem some weed in his car and suddenly found a helpful light shining in, so he held the bag up into the light to get a better look at the stems and seeds. Turned out to be a bad idea.

Honestly, most of what cops do is sit around clocking people, causing distractions, accidents, and extreme slowdowns in traffic.

They're just an annoyance when they're not actively stopping real crime.

Jesus- time to let go of the blonde, too. She’d look far more human with grey.

“Unreasonable” would be the key word. It seems reasonable that a person without a license should not be using a car.

Seizure is also a word.. it's private property, and you can't simply take it. (BTW, what if it's the family vehicle?)

Just letting people know exactly how fucked it is there. My high school had a bar across the street from the front entrance. As an adult, though, I see it was pure genius. Teachers need to unwind after dealing with hormonal teenagers would walk out to their cars thinking "I need a drink after today." and then see the bar. Now they have methadone clinics next to bars in the area so you know its just getting worse.

I too went to Grant

Maybe the family should be more cognizant of who’s driving their vehicles, then it wouldn’t be an issue. Guns are confiscated, why not unlawfully operated vehicles.

I live directly across a lake from Fox Lake. The entire town is a collection of drunks, same thing here. Although Fox Lake has way more bars and boat places because it's sandwiched between multiple lakes.

If you pull a car over after 9-10 pm anywhere around here, you have a 50/50 chance of finding a drunk. But in fox lake, it's probably closer to 80/20.

I hate these lights as much as anyone. But now I'm reading this and understanding why they are so bright. It's so they don't get hit by these old blind drunks.

Mangy flea ridden bulldogs

If it’s uninsured it is not the “family vehicle” it is the “family liability”.

Committed two crimes while driving drunk:

1. Driving on a suspended license
2. Driving an uninsured vehicle

She looks exactly like the person who would demand to talk to the Cop's manager.

Because some people own multiple vehicles that have multiple drivers. I currently own 2 cars.

Also, there are things in place to restrict and make it impossible to drink and drive, like an interlock. This lady should've had one, but I'm betting her being suspended doesn't matter to her and she wouldn't even bother getting one anyway. At risk of being jumped on, I'll just go for it. I have a dui (got it while sitting in a running car, so no, I wasn't driving at the time), and this is my situation. My license is suspended and I can't drive until I get my license reinstated and have an interlock in my car.

They barely stop any crime. They usually make stuff worse.

Sitting here at 53 not all that far from the scene of the crime I'm doubling up on my early to bed and morning exercise vow after looking at that mug shot.

Hey this is right by my home town!

The drunks in Republican stronghold of the NW suburbs are fucking deadly and absolutely batshit fucking crazy.

Sums up Northern Illinois pretty well.

Most people think of Chicago when they think northern IL, it's mostly empty fields filled with drunks, druggies, and the dregs of society, basically Florida.

Moisturize, stay out of the Sun and lay off the sauce

Once had a drunk stop in the fast lane of a 4 lane freeway and try to give me his license at 2 in the morning.

a) I'm not a cop b) I was otherwise engaged with an extrication