Unfortunate. Hope he gets the help he needs. All positive thoughts here.
Iowa Nice Guy arrested
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Unfortunate. Hope he gets the help he needs. All positive thoughts here.
First offense is just a dumb mistake. It doesn’t mean Siepker has a problem.
That said, holy **** is Uber easy. I don’t understand getting OWIs in urban areas.
You hope he gets the help he needs yet you post his picture on the Internet. How do you even know he needs help?
I won’t defend drunk driving but this is a bush league move on your part.
It's a culture in Iowa, straight up.
When I've gone out in my home town (800ish people) it's about a mile walk home if I drink too much.
People look at me like I'm crazy for wanting to just walk home instead of driving, like a 20 minute walk is unheard of and many people get OWIs that live just a few blocks away.
Even acting like a 1st offense means he “needs help” is really speculative and kinda rumor mongering.
Especially when he doesn’t even look that drunk in the mugshot. We don’t know the circumstances yet, so there’s no point in this.
Do you work at the Polk County jail?
I always wonder about how people know about these things, whether they monitor the jail website 24/7, when a random guy like Siepker gets booked and it finds it's way to a place like here in under two hours.
I always wonder about how people know about these things, whether they monitor the jail website 24/7, when a random guy like Siepker gets booked and it finds it's way to a place like here in under two hours.
Iowa is not even in the top half of states for dui arrests and deaths per 100,000.
https://backgroundchecks.org/which-states-have-the-worst-dui-problems.html
That doesn't mean drunk driving isn't a culture there.
The cans along the rock roads aren't magic.
I don't know if it's a "culture", but i completely understand your point. At least in rural places.
I live in NE Iowa in a fairly rural community. If I'm going to the "bars" or whatever, I plan an exit. I have a 20 minute walk home no matter where I go, provided I don't have a pre planned ride.
I know a guy that got an OWI for driving three city blocks to get more beer...
I think you all need to give the OP a break. Different people have different conceptions of how serious a behavior is. In my family, driving drunk would be considered a severe violation of norms, not something you could just accidentally fall into.
Don't know if he has a problem or not but just from listening to him when he is on the radio with Murph & Andy believe he's recently divorced and has been out on the "dating/bar scene" a lot more frequently of late.
I live in small town (3800) Iowa and am always surprised by this too. I walk or ride my bike everywhere, even sober. Lots of people drive after drinking, but I don’t have that many friends who have OWIs, and don’t know any that have had accidents.
What does suck is there’s no transit, Uber, or cabs out here at all. There’s one taxi cab (in Decorah) within 60 miles of where I live.
If it's a "culture" here, it's a culture across most of the US. I don't believe Iowa is exceptionally bad in this area based on my own personal experience and actual data backs that up.
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