One 911 caller said Beall was driving a Toyota in the north Lakeland area.
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Whitney Beall, 23, 3805 Rob Way, used a social media application called Periscope to stream the entire incident on the Internet, said Lakeland Police Department Sgt. Gary Gross.
“I’m (expletive) drunk”, she said on the broadcast, audibly slurring a few of her words. Her clouded mind may have also caused her to livestream her state of inebriation on Periscope where her feed was witnessed in horror by hundreds of users.
Beall went on to acknowledge she was also driving with a flat tire, calling it “horrible”. On the broadcast, Beall kept telling her viewers that she really had no idea at all as to where she actually was.
The Lakeland police couldn’t actively access the “periscope” app and majority didn’t even know what it was.
When officers pulled her over, she hit a curb without applying the brakes.
According to WTSP, police eventually found Beall driving on Carpenters Way with a flat front tire which she admitted on the stream to knowing she had. Beall failed all sobriety tests, was charged with DUI, and was taken to jail immediately.
Law enforcement were finally able to locate Beall when the Toyota Corolla she was driving stopped when she hit a curb.
“57 people. Oh my god I didn’t know I’d get this many people”, police say she said on the app.
Watch a report on Beall’s arrest, as aired on WPTV-TV, below. As they approached her vehicle, officers said they could smell alcohol.
Beall returned home Monday and told WFLA that “what happened was a big mistake and she was learning her lesson”.
One viewer urged her to stop driving before she hurt herself, the Lakeland Police Department posted on its Facebook page.
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“The streaming Periscope video highlights the dangers of driving while intoxicated through the eyes of a drunk and irresponsible young adult”, police said while announcing her arrest.
