The Walmart heiress was arrested Friday night, her 62nd birthday. Not a great mugshot. If I were worth $20 billion, I wouldn’t do much of my own driving. But then again, Walton is a lot cooler than I am. She’s not your typical heiress.
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As the story mentions, in 1998 she was charged with a DWI in Springdale, Ark. I was working at a paper in Fayetteville (which is adjacent to Springdale) at the time, and remember it well. For one, she knocked over a gas meter. For two, she pulled the “Don’t you know who I am?” card.
But she was also never convicted of something else: In 1989, she struck and killed a 50-year-old Springdale mother of two while allegedly speeding in her Porsche. No charges were ever brought, even though she had been repeatedly ticketed for reckless driving that year.
So lesson: Don’t get in a car with Alice Walton, and don’t get in front of a car driven by Alice Walton. In fact, just stay home.
@ 12:33 pm on October 13, 2011
Yeah. She sounds real “cool”, Tim.
@ 12:56 pm on October 13, 2011
More proof that money doesn’t buy class, but it can sure buy some good lawyers!
@ 3:05 pm on October 13, 2011
I have always wondered why people this rich drive…..and drive drunk. Is it a control thing?
@ 3:14 pm on October 13, 2011
She’s a job creator!
She’s creatin’ jobs for…mugshot photographers, cops, car repair businesses…..
@ 6:21 pm on October 13, 2011
Two things: I know of Walton’s Fort Worth lawyer, Dee Kelly, who is quoted in news stories about this latest DWI, as a longtime lawyer for the Bass family. He was always the trigger man for Bass political contributions to both repubs and dems, the guy you went through when trolling for dough. He’s not the one who’ll try your case in court, but he’s obviously the first call you make if you’re the super rich in Cowtown and you’re in trouble.
Also, Bethany, the website Wikipedia (I know, I know) says that when she pulled the “Don’t you know who I am” card in the ‘98 DWI incident, she told the responding cop “I’m Alice Walton, bitch.” The Wiki reference for that anecdote is a British Independent newspaper story which has the quote but doesn’t cite an empirical source. Not sure if it’s merely apocryphal, but it sure seems to fit!
@ 7:39 pm on October 13, 2011
We’re about the same age. I wonder if she would like to join me in Port Au Prince for thirty days starting in the middle of November if the ducks (dollars) get lined up just right.
We will be building a two hundred and forty square foot model home out of styrofoam trash. It’s a house designed and built by some of the poorest women on the planet. There will be some male experts involved just like there would be experts involved if we were building the house with college kids or soldiers or any other group of regular folks.
It will be great publicity for her because it will be documented on video. Hopefully it will become an instructional video.
I spent 30 days there, most of August into September, earlier this year. I lost 20 pounds in 30 days. She could look at it as a boot camp spa experience that none of her friends can match.
I’m serious.
@ 6:39 am on October 14, 2011
I’d be a really cool heiress as well, just give me a chance, you’ll see.
I don’t see what’s so cool about her. Load of DWI’s, attitude, what am I missing? She’s not “stuffy”? Please.
@ 9:16 am on October 14, 2011
She looks like one of her Walmart shoppers.
@ 9:24 am on October 14, 2011
@Harvey…..you may be serious but the only thing Ms Walton lifts is a bottle to her mouth. Sounds like she needs to go back to “charm schoool” and then look for community projects like yours.
@ 8:33 am on October 16, 2011
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As the story mentions, in 1998 she was charged with a DWI in Springdale, Ark. I was working at a paper in Fayetteville (which is adjacent to Springdale) at the time, and remember it well. For one, she knocked over a gas meter. For two, she pulled the “Don’t you know who I am?” card.
But she was also never convicted of something else: In 1989, she struck and killed a 50-year-old Springdale mother of two while allegedly speeding in her Porsche. No charges were ever brought, even though she had been repeatedly ticketed for reckless driving that year.
So lesson: Don’t get in a car with Alice Walton, and don’t get in front of a car driven by Alice Walton. In fact, just stay home.
Yeah. She sounds real “cool”, Tim.
More proof that money doesn’t buy class, but it can sure buy some good lawyers!
I have always wondered why people this rich drive…..and drive drunk. Is it a control thing?
She’s a job creator!
She’s creatin’ jobs for…mugshot photographers, cops, car repair businesses…..
Two things: I know of Walton’s Fort Worth lawyer, Dee Kelly, who is quoted in news stories about this latest DWI, as a longtime lawyer for the Bass family. He was always the trigger man for Bass political contributions to both repubs and dems, the guy you went through when trolling for dough. He’s not the one who’ll try your case in court, but he’s obviously the first call you make if you’re the super rich in Cowtown and you’re in trouble.
Also, Bethany, the website Wikipedia (I know, I know) says that when she pulled the “Don’t you know who I am” card in the ‘98 DWI incident, she told the responding cop “I’m Alice Walton, bitch.” The Wiki reference for that anecdote is a British Independent newspaper story which has the quote but doesn’t cite an empirical source. Not sure if it’s merely apocryphal, but it sure seems to fit!
We’re about the same age. I wonder if she would like to join me in Port Au Prince for thirty days starting in the middle of November if the ducks (dollars) get lined up just right.
We will be building a two hundred and forty square foot model home out of styrofoam trash. It’s a house designed and built by some of the poorest women on the planet. There will be some male experts involved just like there would be experts involved if we were building the house with college kids or soldiers or any other group of regular folks.
It will be great publicity for her because it will be documented on video. Hopefully it will become an instructional video.
I spent 30 days there, most of August into September, earlier this year. I lost 20 pounds in 30 days. She could look at it as a boot camp spa experience that none of her friends can match.
I’m serious.
I’d be a really cool heiress as well, just give me a chance, you’ll see.
I don’t see what’s so cool about her. Load of DWI’s, attitude, what am I missing? She’s not “stuffy”? Please.
She looks like one of her Walmart shoppers.
@Harvey…..you may be serious but the only thing Ms Walton lifts is a bottle to her mouth. Sounds like she needs to go back to “charm schoool” and then look for community projects like yours.