Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Charged With DUI

Lynyrd Skynyd co-founder and guitarist Gary Rossington got in to a traffic accident in his hometown of Milton Georgia. Police responding to the accident noticed that Rossington obviously smelled of alcohol, could not stand well and his speech was slurred. They wanted to conduct a field sobriety test on him but Rossington told the police that he was drunk and decline the field sobriety test but complied to a breathalyzer test and was over the legal limit of .08 BAC. At least he didn’t try to cover the fact that he was drunk and humiliate himself by completely failing a field sobriety test as most do. He then said “Take me drunk ociffer, I’m home.” (Not really, but I always liked that joke.)

Rossington was charged with two counts of DUI and a traffic violation.

Source: The Smoking Gun

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