Welcome to Mississippi. Have a Swig of NyQuil.

June 28, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Mississippi Republican State Senate President Pro Tem Terry Burton does not have a drinking problem.  He has a breath spray problem.

573a90afcf385.imageHe got his butt arrested last month for his second DUI in two years.  He ran his truck off the road at 10:00 pm after attending a concert.  He killed a stop sign.  They took him to the police station and he blew “drunk.”

He says he had some drinks that morning but that he quit drinking in the afternoon.  You know, because it’s healthier to drink in the morning.

So, here’s his story and he’s sticking to it.

“I had a coughing spell after all the powder and dust blew from the air bags deploying,” Burton said on Friday. “I took some cough syrup. … It was Nyquil, that was all I had in my bag, had nothing else in the vehicle to drink. … I used breath spray because my mouth felt like cotton.

That right there is a pretty good Mississippi story, if you’re drunk when you told it.

Now here’s the best part:  The judge ruled, “Yep, that’s what happened.”

Justice Court Judge Wilbur McCurdy (no, I am not making up these names) ruled that the NyQuil and breath spray caused a false positive on the breath-o-meter.

So, State Senator Terry Burton walked out of the courtroom, stuck some NyQuil in his hip pocket and some breath spray under his cowboy hat, and headed over to the saloon to celebrate.

Well done, Mississippi.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

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0 Comments to “Welcome to Mississippi. Have a Swig of NyQuil.”


  1. e platypus onion says:

    Nyquil contains 10% alcohol which is more than high point beer. Nyquil also makes non-alcohol stuff. He should have been charged with being drunk just from the NYquil.

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  2. Fred Farklestone says:

    That judge just backed himself into a real deep corner with his ruling!
    Everyone that comes before him now on a DUI charge can just claim to have been drinking NyQuil!

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  3. Just as the post end with. Keep a bottle of NyQuil handy as proof and end of all drunk driving violations!!!!! Thanks for the tip!

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  4. Polite Kool Marxist says:

    Where’s the blood? And, I don’t mean this Bozo’s nose smear from when his air bag deployed. He blew positive, which is probable cause for requiring a blood sample.

    D’oh. Never mind. Mississippi. Republican.

    Only in sane states when one fails the field sobriety tests does one either submit to a blood sampling or do it the hard way. GC/MS can differentiate between your mouthwash, sinus aids and alcohol.

    e platypus onion and Fred Farklestone, it’s about volume. A dose (1oz) of Nyquil @10% versus one beer (12oz) @2%; not gonna blow positive.

    If it wasn’t Mississippi, I’d posit that the ‘judge’ should know the pertinent facts. But hey, among the good old boys, drunk on your a$$ is a right. A snacilbupeR good old boy? It didn’t happen.

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  6. I was going to say that NyQuil would probably make me drive off the road if I were stupid enough to take it and drive, but he says he took it *after* the crash, because he was coughing from the air bags. So still no good explanation for the crash.

    “Some drinks” in the morning– not a good sign.

    What was the concert? Lady Gaga? Iron Maiden? Bud’s Polka Trio?

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  8. Sandridge says:

    urg , glub, still morning anyway, guess need some of what jerklaig burton imbibes, doesn’t his pic just scream ‘entitled wingnut alkie azzhole’?

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  9. Dang! Around here some high ranking military have been bagged in court with a “drunk from cough syrup” claim. But, hey, I understand when you say “it’s Mississippi.”

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  10. JAKvirginia says:

    Pity the poor soul who had to scrub all of this bullcrap off the courtroom wallls.

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  11. Marcia in CO says:

    He should spend some of that Nyquil money on a suit that actually fits!!

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  12. What a slimy SOB! What a slimy state!
    At first he denied that he had even been arrested for DUI. He said that he’d run off the road after swerving to avoid a deer.

    After being caught in the lie, he claimed to have misunderstood the question.

    http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/31989050/senator-terry-burton-charged-with-dui

    Check out the mugshot:

    http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f0e22a258b4deae06ac96defba364d1354f6dabb/c=38-0-586-412&r=x404&c=534×401/local/-/media/2016/05/18/JacksonMS/JacksonMS/635991851528103030-Se.-Terry-Burton-mugshot.jpg

    Talk about being rode hard and put away wet.

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  13. AliceBeth says:

    Drinks in the morning is never a good sign…unless you are on vacation and someone else is driving. In every day life….drinks in the morning be bad.

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  14. slipstream says:

    slipstream once got called for jury duty (not in Mississippi).

    The defendant was charged with DUI. He claimed he was taking NyQuil for a cold. The judge explained that the law didn’t care what substance caused the impaired driving — impaired driving is impaired driving. We listened to the tape of the deputy interviewing the defendant. Hoo boy, was he impaired.

    So we convicted the slimeball.

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  15. In my state (Washington), as slipstream @14 said, it doesn’t matter what substance caused one to be drunk. Alcohol is alcohol, no matter what the concoction. Washington has some of the strictest DUI laws in the country, and the penalties are truly hideous. That particular alkie wouldn’t like it here.

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  16. Mississippi Republican State Senator Terry Burton sounds like the kind of guy who’s family dog ate a lot of his homework back in elementary school.

    Obviously he didn’t learn much, as his excuses have not improved one bit.

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  17. If our friend had consumed an entire 12 oz. bottle of NyQuil it would equal 3 oz. of bourbon. No one trained to give breathalyzer test would allow the suspect to use a mouth spray before the test. I do detect a strong aroma of mendacity dominating from Mississippi.

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  18. Cole:
    I see Judge Wilbur McCurdy pulling into his parking space behind the court house, drawing a deep breath and whispering to himself, “I love the smell of mendacity in the morning!” while “Ride of the Valkyries” reaches it’s climax on his eight speaker car stereo.

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  19. JAKvirginia says:

    Cole: If he drank that much NyQuil he would be in the hospital. It’s not the alcohol. It’s the alcohol and other drugs combined. REALLY bad for the kidneys. I know. I OD’d on the stuff. Took a dose. Woke up several hours later disoriented. Foolishly took another dose and went back to bed. Several hours later I was in the ER with severe cramps and pain. (Just like labor pains, guys, if you want the experience. NOT pretty.) X-ray showed a dark trail coming out of one kidney. Blood. I have never touched the stuff since.

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  20. RepubAnon says:

    Sounds like one of those defenses that only works for star football players and politicians of the correct political party.

    I hear Trey Gowdy and Ted Cruz have started up investigations into Hillary’s involvement, though…

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  21. And the Supreme Court confirmed this crapola 9-0 because some people have to be above the law.

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  22. So his argument is that he drives like that when he’s sober?

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  23. Sandridge says:

    Cole,
    Every year is a superb Mendacity label vintage year in the vinyards of Missisip, Aladamnbama, Georgia, Texass, et al. Bottled in huge quantities, soon to be the house whine in finer Trump restuarante’s everywhere.

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  24. C’mon Nyquil is what 10% abv? In an 8 ounce “serving” if he snarked back the whole thing? Sorry but I feel a “bull $hit” cough coming on.

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  25. Mah Fellow Murkuhn says:

    It doesn’t matter what political party you belong to, if you know the judge well enough. Like everything else in life and business, it’s who you know, not what you know or what you do. In an ideal world that would all be false, but this is not an ideal world, and certainly not an ideal country.

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