Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Law&Crime Network" channel.

  1. She is quite well coordinated and stable on her feet at a BAC of 0.24 - a level at which some people couldn't stand up. This indicates she has been a serious alcoholic for some time. The sad part is the kids in her class would have known she was drunk. They would have smelt the booze, they would have noticed her behavior, her speech. They probably noticed it in the previous term. She didn't want to call anybody because she thinks they don't know she's an alcoholic, or have never noticed she's drunk. She's delusional about that.
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  2. She is used to Australian police, who are firm, do their job, but are nowhere near as scary and inflexibly committed to "process" as US police.
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  3.  @MarquisDeSadie  I''m an Aussie. Her accent is not standard east coast Australian but it is very close. Poster AugustThor thinks she is South African, plausible except that her accent is too soft. She does not have any sort of British accent. To me, she on some words sounded like neutral American. I have a couple of friends and a daughter in law who lived and worked in the USA for a year or so, and they came back sounding vaguely American on some words. They quickly reverted back to normal. Regardless of whether she is Australian, South African, or English, if she has only been in the US for a few months, she simply won't be used to the scary, gungho process-driven US police. In Australia, if you are drunk but not staggering, and a bit cheeky, the cops will just tell you to behave and get a taxi home, and give you a ticket if you were driving - they won't put you in a cell unless you hit somebody. They won't take your phone and your handbag etc off you. They won't handcuff you unless they have reasonable belief that you might run away or be violent. Accents are funny things. Prior to Crocodile Dundee, when American film companies made a movie in which a character was supposed to be Australian, They usually got a British actor to play the part. They did that because to their ears we sound sort of British, and to their ears the real Australian accent sounds a bit unpleasant - just as some US drawl accents sound a bit unpleasant to us Aussies.
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  4.  @MarquisDeSadie  Well, I'm not confused - I'm an Aussie and I definitely think she is an Aussie too - that's what I said. Her accent sounds just like some of my Aussie friends except for one or two words. Certainly she is not English. What country are you from?
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