Chicago DUI lawyer asks would you like fries with your DUI?

I have seem some peculiar DUI arrests and posted them here, but to charge someone with a DUI because the police are staking out the burger joint is definitely news to me.

June 14, Tuscon, AZ

Drunken drivers with the late-night munchies soon could get more than just a burger and fries at the drive-through window.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department's new anti-drunken driving campaign — called Operation Would U Like Fries, or Operation WULF — hopes to put undercover deputies inside 24-hour fast-food restaurants to spot impaired drivers placing their orders, said Sgt. Doug Hanna, DUI unit supervisor.

If deputies notice someone with any of the classic symptoms of impairment — slurred speech, red or watery eyes, beer breath — they will radio a uniformed deputy stationed just outside, Hanna said.

The second deputy will then pull over the driver and, if field tests confirm what the officer at the drive-through suspected, arrest him or her for driving under the influence.

"The idea is to get them before they get back on the road," Hanna said.

Bankrolling the intermittent program will be a $128,000 grant the Sheriff's Department received from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety for fiscal year 2008-2009, Hanna said. The grant also funds sobriety checkpoints and other anti-drunken driving programs.

Perhaps, I should check with some of Chicago's finest to see what they think of using similar tactics here.