Posted
12/18/2008 08:15:00 PM
by Douglas
What would you do if you were triple drunk, ran into a truck and killed your boyfriend? Why, sue the
truck driver, of course!
Convicted last year of intoxication manslaughter for the death of her boyfriend, the 21-year-old daughter of a state district judge is suing the truck driver she ran into during a drunken driving crash.
Shelton had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit, two tests showed. She was sentenced to eight years' probation and had to serve four months in jail.
Wow. Four whole months in jail for killing someone. That's gotta be rough.
Shelton, her family and the family of the boyfriend who was killed are suing for $20,000 for the destruction of the Lexus SUV she was driving and an undetermined amount for mental anguish, pain and suffering.
Bennett was driving the box truck that Shelton rear-ended on the Southwest Freeway near Kirby around 2 a.m.
Jiminy Cricket, what balls. You get drunk, you drive home, you kill your boyfriend, and you sue the guy your drunk ass ran
into for the value of your car?!?