Those crazy folks in Elgin

It's rare that I can read the newspaper and find something funny. Today was a rare day.

Woman Calls 911 from Police Car

A woman being arrested for DUI early Friday morning called 911 from an Elgin squad car, police said.

Andrea Eichenold, 50, from the 800 block of Willow Street in Lake in the Hills, was driving on Dundee Avenue in Elgin about 1:30 a.m. when police noticed she wasn’t staying in her lane and then ran over a curb as she made a right turn, according to a police report.

She was stopped and officers reported that her breath smelled like alcohol. When she got out of her car, she left it in drive and it hit a concrete parking barrier, which she told police was because she was nervous. But she failed three field tests and refused to take a breath test, the report said.

Eichenold was put into the back of a squad car while police inventoried her vehicle. When they returned, they found her on the phone with a 911 dispatcher saying she was being detained by police and didn’t know why.

She was charged with DUI and improper lane usage and released after posting $100 bond.