It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you post something stupid on the internet there is a high likelihood it will go viral… And yet people continue to post stupid things on the internet.
The latest example of this logical disconnect comes from 22-year-old Colleen Cudney, from Michigan. Welcome to internet notoriety, Colleen! Please, come on up to the stage…
Cudney, who has been under strict orders not to drink since a drunk-driving conviction in 2012, was pulled over for a breath test on St Patrick’s Day, in the wee hours of the morning
She passed.
But then she went home, and posted this message on social media: “Buzz killer for me, I had to breathalyze (sic) this morning and I drank yesterday but I passed thank god lol my dumba@@”.
Unfortunately for Colleen, a local police officer spotted her Facebook status and alerted her probation officer.
The comedy of errors continued from there.
The probation officer then contacted Cudney to schedule a urine test, which is able to detect if an individual has consumed any alcohol within an 80-hour period. Cudney panicked, and hung up on her probation officer – and in doing so, violated her probation terms which were expected to end in a few short weeks.
The last time we saw a case that constituted a mistake of this level, was when a teenager in the US cost her family $80,000, after she violated a court’s confidentiality clause.
In short: don’t drink and Facebook, kids.
And on a more serious note: don’t drink and drive, obviously. There’s a reason it’s illegal.
So, should some people just not use Facebook?
Top Comments
You can be ordered not to drink in the US? I understand not being allowed to have any alcohol in your system when driving but, not allowed to drink alcohol at all?
I believe that if you're on probation you have all sorts of conditions that you can't violate. I'm pretty sure in *the great legal documentary* Double Jeopardy, Ashley Judd isn't even allowed to have sex while on probation!
I'm pretty sure we have the same laws here, actually.
Land of the free my ass.
I'm trying again because my last comment wasn't posted. When is it right to post the name, age, location and image of a person because they did something stupid? She's 22, and she did something stupid. And now she'll probably be targeted by strangers because people across the globe have been given the access to do so. And this site has contributed.