At around 3:00 yesterday afternoon, this crazy drunk **tch ran right through my wood fence!!  Then she backed out of my field and took off.  Luckily, my neighbor was out in his yard and saw the whole thing.  He and a buddy jumped in his truck and followed her to her house and called the police.  When we spoke to the trooper who arrested her, he said...and I quote..."She was tore up from the floor up!"

It's just the craziest thing...We live on the ONLY straight stretch of this road and this makes the fourth wreck on our property in the last 10 years!

Here you can see the skid marks on the road and where she jumped the little ditch.

The cedar posts broke off right at the ground.

Here you can see the tracks all the way over to the neighbor's fence.  The piece of debris at the top of the pic is actually part of the grill from her truck.

Fortunately, we had rotated the horses off this lot last week to let the grass grow, so nobody was hurt.  But I can't help but think of the 'what ifs'.  What if the horses had been in there?  Or my grandson?!?!?!?  And what in the world was she doing completely sh!tfaced drunk at 3:00 in the afternoon?  Geeze I HATE drunks.  And this is supposed to be a DRY COUNTY!!!!!

From the looks of the pictures and her tracks,I'd say she's one lucky "stupid drunk woman" because if she'd hit the tree right by your fence instead,you would have been calling the coroner instead of the cops.

Nothing worse than a drunk,unless it's a drunk woman.And the fact that she's drunk and driving already makes her stupid to start with.(besides lucky.)

She would of had two choices. The cops or a massive butt whooping when she sobered up of coarse. I would want to make sure she new who left tread marks on her face....

Of coarse it would of been my wife doing the whooping. I'd had to hold her back until after she was sobber...LOL

I'd absolutely file on her insurance.  And make sure you pay yourself a wage for doing the repair.  In fact I'd probably call a fencing company and get a estimate of what they would charge to replace  X number of feet of fence and submit it to her insurance. 

If she has no insurance, then you can take her into small claims court.   Here in Utah small claims is any amount under $10,000  and it cost $50 to file and no attorney is needed. And chances are the judge would award the damages with out much of a fight.

People who do this kind of stuff, NEED to be prosecuted.  I see no leniency.  We had a drunk  run through a fence and kill a woman working in her garden here last spring. The judge just sentenced him to 15 years in Jail which was the maximum sentence.  The judges comments was that he wished he could give the guy a life sentence.  Of course the drunks family was all crying the blues about how he was a good guy who had a bad year and needed public help.   Too Late in opinion.

I am so glad no one was hurt! A drunk man ran off the road and hit my friends mare that had just had a foal...she had to bottle feed the baby...this was 30 years ago. Then one time my friends and I were camping for a week up  in  NC and the guys next to us were drunk, decided to go out on a evening ride and one of they had a tie down on his horse and when they got lost and had to  cross the river in the darkness of night, his horse went down and then couldn't get it's head up...the horse drowned... it came a quick rain strom and the river was up.

I sold a beautiful half arab, half quarterhorse gelding to some friends several years ago.  Their son and his friends had a party in which they all got drunk and decided to ride the new horse.  Two of them jumped in the middle of that horse's back from the top rail  of the fence.  Broke the animals' back and he had to be destroyed.  You can guess what I wanted to do to those boys.

Marla 

We too have had our share of dopy drunks.

One decided to cross over the butte s behind the property and in his haste neglegted to note the butte is perpendicular on my side!!

I wound up with his stupid truck along my corral fence on it's side, he walked away with out a scratch,

 ( drunks are always so relaxed!!), the rocks and creosote bushes were all scattered and flattened,

 and his truck was of course a total. He told the sheriff some one stole his truck!!

 BUT, his friends squealed and he got a charge of perjury and filing a false report as well as an a## whipping from his ole man from what I heard.

Hmmmmm.... more a## whippings and less coddling....Hmmmmm

Might work?

Steve with the flattened bushes!

This morning on the news, it was stated that drunk driving accidents have actually declined in the past few years. Now a majority of the accidents are the results of drug usage, cell phones and especially texting.

Of course, if you're a notable football star, you can become inebriated, kill someone with your car, and be out of jail in less than a month.

Must be the modern world in which we live.

Gard

Sorry about your fence, but I'm with Rose find out who their insurance company, should be on the police accident report and if she didn't file one, get the police to make her file one, then make a claim with them. Get at least three estimates from fencing companies for the repair to give to the insurance company. That is your best bet to get reimbursed for your expense. However if you have already made the repair, they may only pay you for the materials. Either way, keep your receipts.

Glad your horses weren't in that pasture, not just for their safety from being hit, but loose horses on a road people drive fast on (sober or drunk) could have resulted in a larger disaster.

BTW no such thing as a dry county. A dry county is just a county that's losing revenue from not selling alcohol. It certainly doesn't make anyone not drink that wants to. And people can get drunk at any time of the day. After all, you have shift workers who's five o clock can be between six and eight in the morning.

As for texting and driving, how dumb can people be? As for me I don't text, people text me and I call them back. ;) Internet boards are as close as I get to texting.