Top 5 of the 2011 Celebrity DUI Lessons

We put celebrities on a pedestal but they are as human as we are. They get entangled with the law with their driving and get charged with steep auto insurance because of their habits.

Despite the statistics, celebrities continue to get caught DUI. Here is the list for the first half of the year.

1. Estella Warren. She was pulled over by the cops because of DUI. However, instead of just submitting, she got involved in a brawl with the police officers and was charged with resisting arrest and battery of a police officer. Warren was released on bail worth $100,000.

2. Rick Springfield. When he was caught, the singer’s alcohol level was just a little over the limit. The legally allowed alcohol in the bloodstream when driving should be 0.08 percent. Springfield’s was 0.10. Experts say that the 0.02 percent is just the equivalent of “licking the beer sweat off a pint glass”. So if you wanna drink, don’t drive.

3. Matthew Rutler. Rutler was driving erratically so he was pulled over. Instead of resisting arrest, he requested for a BAC test and it was found that he only had 0.06 percent alcohol in him. So technically, he was under legal limits and was released.

4. Jaime Pressly. She was in a cocktail of problems that includes a divorce when she was pulled over for DUI. She had about three times the legal limit of alcohol in her bloodstream. So here is the lesson: Do not drink too much and drive, especially if you are underweight.

5. Adam Kennedy. He is now with Seattle Mariners but he has to come back to Anaheim for court appearances after he was caught DUI.

Celebrities can hire expensive DUI attorneys to defend them. That is easy. They can pay for expensive auto insurance. That is still easy for them. But when they hurt themselves, others, and property–that cannot be paid with money. So the moral is: don’t drink and drive.