Walmart heiress arrested Spends birthday in jail (Sam's daughter)

[spotbird]

Source: Weatherford Democrat

WEATHERFORD — Walmart heiress and Parker County resident Alice Walton spent the last hour of her 62nd birthday in the Parker County Jail Friday night after being arrested by a Texas Highway Patrol trooper on a charge of driving while intoxicated.



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According to information from the Springdale District Court in Arkansas, Walton was convicted of driving under the influence in a 1998 case.

Walton paid a several hundred dollar fine in that case, according to other news reports.

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Previous news accounts state Walton was also involved in a 1989 wreck in Arkansas that resulted in the death of a 50-year-old woman.

Read more: http://weatherforddemocrat.com/local/x744031899/Walmart-heiress-arrested

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Strangest story of the week, the laws don't typically apply to these people. She must have been processed before the Wheels of Wealth could rescue her. The article did say that the arrest was not posted until the newspaper called, as all other arrests are, so she did get minimal special treatment. It's amazing the photo was posted at all. She does not look like the 10th most wealthy person in the world, that's for sure.

Next question:


Why would someone who can afford anything decide to risk killing another person?

[teddy51]

1. Doesn't that cop know that these laws are not for people like her? How dare

he arrest her!

[JDPriestly]

2. She must have been driving really badly. Must have been quite extreme.

[spotbird]

3. She refused the breathalyzer.

She knew the presumption was better than the fact. I wonder if they do those videos in Texas, it would be interesting to see how incapacitated she was.

Guess she'll be using a chauffeur for a while.

[msanthrope]

4. I hope her sentence/plea deal mandates that she get a driver.

She has no excuse. She could afford to have a fully-stocked car, 24 hrs a day.

[spotbird]

5. The rules don't apply to her

She's probably been pulled over many times and got off swiftly. It is truly incredible that she had to spend the night in jail. Where were the lawyers on retainer? Someone will have to answer for this.

[virgogal]

6. I feel sorry for her. I felt sorry for Joan Kennedy and all of her

drinking situations.

Thank God no one was hurt.

Alcohol can be nasty stuff for some people.

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[tabasco]

18. Your shtick is stale.

[virgogal]

19. Well thank you !

[mistertrickster]

36. Wow. How about she gives her billions to the homeless and you can feel sorry for them. nt

[Darth_Kitten]

39. Drinking is a choice, I don't pity drunks who harm other people....

they don't need more apologists and enablers. Pity the innocent people whose lives they change and wreck.

[wordpix]

42. you'll feel sorry until your loved one is maimed or killed by a drunk driver

then let's see how sorry you feel

[hlthe2b]

7. I wonder if she has a conscience... or if, perhaps, her conscience is at play...

No way to know, of course, but if she were self-aware enough to know the suffering that the family business has wrought worldwide (rather than excusing it under some "progress" or "it's just business" justification), she might just be using alcohol as her attempt to self-medicate/escape...

Just makes one wonder....:shrug:

[Faygo Kid]

9. Nobody's immune from that problem. That said, she'll get out of it.

She can hire a chauffeur (at minimum wage, no doubt) and get as hammered as she wants.

The Rules Don't Apply to Billionaires. Repeat after me.

[alp227]

10. Spoiled, unethical brat born with a silver spoon in her mouth

and who never learned much about human dignity. Throw the book at her and let her try living away from her isolated trust-funded lifestyle and see how long she lasts around a bunch of poor folks.

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. Waaaaaahhhhh, go into rehab, you can afford it

[kestrel91316]

12. One of our heroic 1%ers!! Bravo! Her first name should be Dagny, BTW.

[DaveJ]

16. Really a 0.000003%er nt

[JI7]

13. We need to use people like this as the ones Republicans hold up as Job Creaters

and victims who will only be left with a "few" tens of millions of dollars if we have a more fair tax code.

[SoapBox]

14. Family Values!

...isn't Drink'n n' Drive'n part of the GOPBagger plank????

*snark*

[JohnnyRingo]

15. She's not guilty.

Not yet.

She's been arrested, but we don't know if she was intoxicated. With no breath test we have no physical evidence of how much (if any) she had to drink.

I'm with "eat the rich" as much as anyone here, but due process still applies to them. Most people here have proven themselves unfit to sit on her jury.

On edit, I don't mean to shake an accusing finger at posters, but sometimes we all get a bit fervent in these divisive times. Certainly the same comments have been made elsewhere about the protesters who were maced and arrested. They were also wrong in assigning guilt.

[greiner3]

27. "She's not guilty."

That's an interesting post. True as you state but I'd say the facts are enough to make an informed decision as to the possible outcome for most other people in the same situation.

"Most people here have proven themselves unfit to sit on her jury." If I were to sit on her jury I think I would have enough presence of mind to hear all the evidence and then based upon the arresting officer's testimony and her lawyer's cross examination I believe I could vote yea or nay on a verdict. I am sure she would not take the stand in her own defense. Because someone makes a snap decision on this board would not necessarily be unfit to sit on this jury. Could you tell me what potential juror does not form some kind of an opinion about any crime that hits the media about a famous person?

However, there is no way any Walton would ever have to go into court as a defendant.

[JohnnyRingo]

30. You're probably right about her not standing testimony.

She'll likely only face a judge for sentencing on a plea bargain for reckless-op, but that's what would happen to any other 1st time offender under similar circumstances. She won't have to suffer as much as a working stiff for the mandatory license suspension because of her privileged lifestyle.

Still, I don't like to presume guilt. She may well have been under the legal limit but didn't want to take the chance. That happens.

[spotbird]

28. The legal presumption of innocence

has little to do with actual guilt or innocence.

[auburngrad82]

40. She has a history of drunk driving

It's her third arrest for DWI. She killed a person in the first DWI (1989). She blew .16, double the legal limit, that time.

When she was arrested the second time she yelled at the arresting officer "I'm Alice Walton, bitch! (1998)"

They also treated the third arrest as a "first offense." That, in itself, should be a crime.

http://www.mogulite.com/alice-walton-dwi/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/14/alice-waltons-dwi-birthday-present/

[wordpix]

43. yet our "justice" system says this is her first DWI, even though she's killed someone already (1989)

[wickerwoman]

17. She'd rather kill someone than hire a chauffeur.

:puke:

[RebelOne]

20. After this, I am sure she will be hiring a chauffeur. n/t

[closeupready]

33. But why didn't she do that the last two times?

??

[Scairp]

21. That's weird

You'd think her family would bail her out.

[notadmblnd]

22. Because they are to cheap to hire a driver.

Boy she looks like she's been rode hard and put up wet more than a couple of times. Must have one hell of a hard-core alcohol addiction if she's had that many alcohol related incidents with the police in her 62 years.

[valerief]

25. +1000. The more they have, the less they want to part with it. nt

[wordpix]

44. but supposedly the less taxes they pay, the more jobs they create!

[valerief]

23. For a second, I thought she may have been an Occupier! Fat chance of that, huh? nt

[Divine Discontent]

24. wow... she was involved in the death of a woman in the past & doesn't have a driver despite having $

Get it here now, or one of a million other designs! http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128659602907896843?rf=238107662556833486eping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128659602907896843?rf=238107662556833486

[Crowman1979]

26. So how does this create jobs?

[DaveJ]

31. Not taxing this job creator is very important

So she can create open stores in China, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil.....

[Mnemosyne]

29. Pocket change fine, again, I would bet.. n/t

[KurtNYC]

32. Who took that mug shot? David Lynch?

if they pan down there is a dancing midget in front of her.

Seriously she is 1/8 of the frame. What up with that?

[Redford]

34. Good God Woman!

If you are that stinking rich hire a driver, a plastic surgeon, and a hairdresser.

[hang a left]

49. My thoughts exactly...

don't forget the style police as well.

[mistertrickster]

35. She'd rather kill somebody than hire a driver. Unbelievable. It must be

all that "uncertainty" because of Obama-care. (heavy sarcasm)

[ronnie624]

37. “There’s no conspiracy,” Fowler said.

No one said there was a conspiracy, idiot. What is implied, and what is a well known fact of life, is that extremely wealthy people usually receive special treatment under these circumstances. We are all conditioned from birth to genuflect to wealth and political power. 'Law enforcement' itself exists to isolate the wealthy from the 'rabble'.

Of all the propaganda memes we're exposed to on a daily basis, 'conspiracy theory' is probably the most irritating to me.

[wordpix]

45. +1000 "no conspiracy," but there's no equal justice, either

[DonCoquixote]

38. Just to ask

is this the heir that was planning to build the really big art museum ion Bentonville?

[raccoon]

41. Gosh, she's about my age but looks a heckuva lot older.

If I had her money, I'd hire a chauffeur even if I didn't drink.

[RebelOne]

50. She looks older because before her mug shot,

she is hosed down in a shower and the makeup and hairdo are gone.

[wordpix]

46. "arrest information...did not appear to be published...until a call...from a Democrat reporter"

snip: "Typically, jail book-in information and a head shot picture are published on the Parker County Jail website within hours of an arrest in Parker County. However, Walton’s arrest information and mug shot did not appear to be published on the Parker County Jail website until a call was made to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office from a Democrat reporter Wednesday afternoon."


Yeah, those Democrat reporters, always stirring things up about our wealthy repugs. :crazy:

[maxrandb]

47. Leave this "Job Creator" alone!!!

Do you have any idea how many billable hours this is going to generate???

[hang a left]

48. You would think with all that money she could

do SOMETHING with her hair?