--- title: Woman Broadcasts Her Own Drunk Driving on Periscope description: "This is horrible," she can be heard saying canonical: https://time.com/4070561/drunk-driving-periscope/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-12T20:43:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:55.425Z og:title: Woman Arrested After Live-Streaming Herself Drunk Driving og:description: "This is horrible," she can be heard saying og:url: https://time.com/4070561/drunk-driving-periscope/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Arrested After Live-Streaming Herself Drunk Driving twitter:description: "This is horrible," she can be heard saying twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Woman Arrested After Live-Streaming Herself Drunk Driving by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 12, 2015 8:43 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 12, 2015 8:43 PM UTC A 23-year-old Florida woman [broadcast her own drunk driving](http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/10/12/florida-woman-periscopes-her-drunken-crash/73820710/) incident on Periscope, the live-streaming platform owned by Twitter, prompting users to call 911 about her behavior. In the recording, Whitney Beall stated several times that she was “drunk” and speculated that she might have a flat tire, according to local CBS affiliate WTSP. Viewers could see that she was apparently very impaired, but could not discern her location to share with police officers. The Lakeland police department eventually found Beall on the road after spotting landmarks in the background of her live stream, and saw that she was indeed driving with one flat tire when they located her car. When the officers pulled her over, she hit a curb without braking. She declined to take a breathalyzer test, and failed the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, resulting in an arrest and DUI charge, police said. \[[WTSP](http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/10/12/florida-woman-periscopes-her-drunken-crash/73820710/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4070561/drunk-driving-periscope/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4070561/drunk-driving-periscope/"},"headline":"Woman Arrested After Live-Streaming Herself Drunk Driving","datePublished":"2015-10-12T20:43:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:55.425Z","description":"\"This is horrible,\" she can be heard saying","url":"https://time.com/4070561/drunk-driving-periscope/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4070561/drunk-driving-periscope/","name":"Woman Arrested After Live-Streaming Herself Drunk Driving"}}]}] ```