So I was on a certain “Home Page of the Internet” where we occasionally find inspiration for stories here on DairylandDiaries.com, and I saw a story about a Man being arrested on suspicion of his 7th offense OWI after a traffic stop in Sauk County (about 33 minutes to the Dells).

I honestly read the headline, and my first thought was a Meme…

So I jumped over to my laptop, pulled up the site that the actual story was from, and since it wasn’t still on the home page did a quick search, and…

So I wasn’t spot on–those aren’t rookie numbers…but it’s barely news in Wisconsin when someone gets their 7th OWI (for the record, this is the story I was looking for). And what got cut off in that photo is that there were at about 2,050 search results for ‘7th OWI’ on the site…

So of course I dug deeper:

  • 8th OWI – 802 results
  • 9th OWI – 303 results
  • 10th OWI – 546 results
  • 12th OWI – 90 results…although we finally see more random posts, rather than headlines about 13th OWI–like the woman in 2017 arrested for her 3rd OWI in 8 days (unfortunately after a fatal crash), rather than 12 actual OWI cases (although there are a few).

Just one of those interesting/scary things you come across. I know Minnesota has our share of problematic drunk drivers as well…we just don’t seem to celebrate the drinking lifestyle quite as much here.