Your Drunk Driving Arrest May End Up On Twitter (Fox Charlotte)

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By FRANK CARNEVALE

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - If you get arrested for drinking and driving in one Texas county this holiday week, your name may end up on Twitter.

The district attorney's office of Montgomery County has decided to post the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated between Christmas and New Year's Eve, reported ComputerWorld .

"There is definitely a deterrent effect in the potential public humiliation people may face when they get arrested for DWI," said assistant district attorney Warren Diepraam, who came up with the idea of posting the arrests on Twitter, to MyFox Houston .

The names will be posted to District Attorney Brett Ligon's Twitter page. So far no names or arrests have been posted to the page.

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Suspected drunk driver plows into several cars (9news.com)

ARAPAHOE COUNTY - The owners of at least four vehicles woke up to serious damage after a driver in a dark-colored pickup plowed through a neighborhood early Tuesday morning.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff's office says the driver, a man in his late 20s, hit four vehicles and a light pole at around 6:40 a.m. The vehicles were parked in the 18000 block of East Belleview Place.

"I was sleeping and heard a car that was - hit the embankment over here," Tom Sharon, a resident on the street, said. "And so, with that I jumped up, but I could hear it still trying to go, and then I heard another crash, and then I heard another crash."

Sharon says by then, people were coming out of their houses to see what was happening.

Deputies say the driver, whose name has not been released, first came down the street and plowed over fences, bushes and landscaping. They say the driver then turned around and came back down the same street, causing more damage and narrowly missing a pedestrian.

Noelle Mahleres, who was spending the night at a friend's house on the street, came out when she heard her car alarm, finding her car had been hit.

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