NEILSVILLE, Wis. (AP) — The call came in to the 911 dispatcher: "I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm drunk."
And with that, Mary Strey, 49, of Granton, reported herself as a drunken driver about three miles northeast of Neilsville in central Wisconsin.
Clark County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Backus says Strey's call on Oct. 24 led deputies to cite her for misdemeanor drunken driving and operating a vehicle with a prohibited blood-alcohol level. Online court records say she is to make her initial court appearance on Dec. 10.
Backus says drunken drivers reporting themselves is rare.
In Strey's 911 call, she said she wanted to report a drunken driver and the dispatcher asked if she was behind the suspect vehicle. "I am them," Strey said. She then followed the dispatcher's advice to pull over and turn on her flashers.
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