Things got really gory in Palm Bay, Florida last Friday night when 70 year-old Sally Gore had a bit too much to drink before she got behind the wheel of her SUV to search for her lost dog without checking to see if her husband Gregory might've been standing in the driveway, Fox News reports.
The trouble started when the couple arrived home from a boozy dinner at a nearby Beef O'Brady's location to find that their gate was open and the dog was nowhere to be found. The plan was for Sally to drive around and call out the dog's name while Gregory would search on foot. Sally did her part, as witnesses said they heard her yelling out the window of the Honda Ridgeline. Gregory was indisposed however and only when Sally returned did she see her little alcohol-induced mistake.
Now Sally's been charged with felony DUI manslaughter and is out on a $5,000 bond. Fox News's article doesn't say what happened to the dog, though the sentence "They believed their dog, which has a history of escaping the yard, had gotten out once again, according to the affidavit" carries an implication that the dog might not've actually escaped at all and that maybe the sheriff's department purposely left that particular detail out of the arrest affidavit to not make it worse.