The ticket Pat Dykstra received for driving drunk. | Photo: Today's TMJ4

The ticket Pat Dykstra received for driving drunk. | Photo: Today's TMJ4

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Statement Over the Phone Nets Drunken Driving Charge

By Erik Bilstad

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Click here to listen to Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Erik Bilstad report Pat Dykstra's drunk 9-1-1 experience, including audio from the 9-1-1 call.

Thanks to a tip call, a woman from Fox Lake in Dodge County was ticketed for driving drunk.

That tip call, by the way, was from her.

Pat Dykstra was driving home from the bar, because her boyfriend was drunk.

He thought she was too drunk also, so he told her to call 9-1-1.

"Somebody seems to think I can't drive home straight," said a slurring Dykstra on the 9-1-1 call.

"(My husband) seems to think I'm too intoxicated to drive. He wanted me to call 9-1-1 because he thinks I'm too drunk to drive."

Deputies were dispatched and found Dykstra at home.

"I was home already, and in my pajamas, going to bed," said a sober Dykstra the next day.

She registered a .14 blood alcohol level, above the legal limit of .08, and received a ticket.

Dykstra doesn't really think that's fair, considering she got home safely.

"It's good in a way, but if I'd have thought about it, it wasn't good for my driving record."