Florida teen pops open can of malt liquor in back seat while getting ride home from Sheriff

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Police Car No Place For A Beer
Cops: Florida teen popped open can of Steel Reserve inside cruiser

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0407101purse1.html?link=rssfeed

APRIL 7--Meet Tasha Lee Cantrell. The 19-year-old Floridian was riding in a car early Monday morning when the vehicle's driver was pulled over and arrested for DUI. As a tow truck arrived to remove her friend's car, a stranded Cantrell asked Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Deputy Mitchell Landis for a ride home to her Fort Walton Beach residence. Landis agreed, but only after checking Cantrell's purse for any contraband, according to an offense report. While chauffeuring Cantrell, Landis heard the teenager "open a can of some sort" in the back of the cruiser. "As I looked at my in car video I observed Cantrell drinking out of an unknown can." Landis stopped his car and, upon further investigation, determined that Cantrell had popped open a can of Steel Reserve, a malt liquor known for its high alcohol content. "When I opened the rear passenger door I observed Cantrell attempting to hide the can between her legs. I retrieved this can and noticed it was Steel Reserve Beer," reported Landis, who immediately arrested Cantrell for underage drinking. Instead of being shuttled to her doorstep, Cantrell, pictured in the below mug shot, was rerouted to the sheriff's office, where she was booked on the misdemeanor charge.

[Wickerman]

1. Future Darwin Award Winner

At least she seems quite pleased with herself.

[LiberalFighter]

9. Probably thinks she is auditioning for a modeling job.

[Fumesucker]

11. It wouldn't surprise me if she got one from this exposure..

There's no such thing as bad pub..

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Ewwww.

And please don't accuse me of lookism. The "ewwww" is more of an aura I get just looking at the photo.

I hope there's a chance she can turn her life around, but I dunno. :(

[sfwriter]

3. LOL... Insane.

[walldude]

4. Future Governor of Alaska... n/t

[Swamp Rat]

16. LOL!

or Florida :D

[proteus_lives]

5. Five bucks says she'll have at least two babies before 21.

[Kali]

6. or she will get her own reality show

and become a "real" celebrity:P

[Cleita]

7. Pretty girl, but I hope not for the sake of the babies. n/t

[Webster Green]

8. Cool!

I like her. :9

[Luminous Animal]

10. I do, too!

[Berry Cool]

12. I guess it just goes to show

You don't have to be the sharpest crayon in the box--just be pretty and you can get away with anything in some people's eyes.

[Webster Green]

14. Not at all!

I like that she's attractive (IMO), but I LOVE that she popped a brewski in the back of the cop car. :rofl:

[Luminous Animal]

19. It's the chutzpah.

She's 19 and what the fuck! When I was 19, for good and bad, I had chutzpah. Who knows, with her healthy disrespect for authority, she could become an effective activist.

[Bluebear]

13. Which Palin is this again?

[chollybocker]

15. Hah!

Exactly what I thought. ;)

[Berserker]

17. I hope they

tossed her in one of those stainless steel cells where the shit stains run down the side of the toilet and maybe it would wipe that fucking smile off her face.

[Luminous Animal]

21. How puritan of you.

I hope she walks out of that stainless steel cell, where the shit stains run down the side of the toilet, with a smile on her face thinking fuck ya'll, ya'll. And cracks open a beer as soon as she gets home.

[provis99]

18. why are these freaks always from Florida?

Does News of the Weird have its central office in Florida?

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. This falls in the category of STOOOOPIIIDDD

[Egnever]

22. How the hell did she get a can of beer into the back of a cop car

Thats what I want to know. She is not the only stupid one in this story.

[tmyers09]

23. That takes balls. I fully appreciate this!

And no, I don't find her attractive. That is not why I find this awesome.

[Luminous Animal]

24. Well, no. That takes ovaries. And I fully appreciate that.

[LostInAnomie]

25. Damn, I wish I was that much of a bad ass.

That's seriously one of the coolest things I've heard of anyone doing. Not smartest, but definitely coolest.

[Luminous Animal]

30. Stupid things I did whilst a teenager with my friends.

Threw a pumpkin at a stop sign and hit the side of a cop car instead. Ended up in a car chase during which we drove off a 10 foot cliff... Drove like a bat out of hell through the back country roads of PA looking for fresh snow, found some, lost control and plowed through a power conduit and blacked out 2% of northwestern PA... While skinny dipping after midnight, elected to plummet down a 10 foot waterfall... Hung one of my friends by her ankles out a second story window (she asked us to do it!)... Got caught smoking pot in the high school bathroom. Tattooed a friend on the smoking court. Raced on the Newark-Elkton road for the grand prize of a pack of cigarettes... Had sex with 2 musicians in the back of their hearse...

That's about 25% of the stupid things that I did. And, not only was I very intelligent (schooling-wise), but damn good looking, to boot.

During my teenage years, Bill Clinton became a Rhodes Scholar and after a period of small time politics and infidelity was elected to 2 terms of the Presidency, during which he did the totally smart thing of diddling a young woman with a cigar in the oval office.

[Ter]

26. Move that sign out of the way a little cutie

:evilgrin:

[charlie]

27. I had a can of Steel Reserve once

It had the acrid smell of burning tires and tasted like rubbing alcohol. I can't believe people drink that shit on purpose. And can do it without barfing up their shoes.

[apocalypsehow]

28. My kind of party girl.

:thumbsup:

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Tsk! These consarned whippersnappers today. She looks like she's not even wearing a bra!

And, for good measure, GET OFF MY LAWN!


However, when I was 19, this was ***exactly*** the kind of company I liked to keep.

[Luminous Animal]

31. Whorers!

[HughBeaumont]

32. Man, she looks like a really trashy version of the girl on Eurotrip.

I wonder if she was high or not.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. She Should Move And Get A Gig On Jersey Shore

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