Comments about ‘Motorist stops accused drunken driver, takes keys, holds him for police’

Way to go Alan Kirkham! You may well have saved lives that day.

If they would change the law and make it premeditated murder instead of a DUI, maybe some slim chance it would help. I know, being a drunk is now a sickness and I suppose in many peoples eyes it makes it ok. How many DUI's has this guy had, did he have a valid license? How many people will he kill next time he gets behind the wheel.

This guy had prior convictions and knowingly chose to be a repeat offender. He should spend the rest of his life behind bars where someone else can make his choices for him.
We lose more Americans in a month to drunk drivers than all the servicemen we've lost in Iraq since the war began. It's time to put these losers where they belong, behind bars, permanently.

While i despise drunk drivers. I despise those citizens who want to play COP all the time.

When will the DUI guy find a lawyer to file a lawsuit against Mr. Kirkham for interfering with his personal life?????

By the way Mr. Kirkham great job, I just fear that with all the holes in our judicial system this moron may attempt to mess with your life even more.

Alan Kirkham, you da man!

I am glad Kirkham decided to get involved, too many wouldn't. I guess I am waiting for the drunk or his family to sue Kirkham for some violation of civil rights.

It's a bad idea for an individual to act as a cop. Someone will get hurt. I can't believe the cops would praise this.

I don't want a vigilante society.

How long until the lawsuit? I'm sure there has to be some charges there - assault, theft, kidnapping...

Way to Go Alan!! You not only got this idiot off the road but may have saved some lives in the process! The man you stopped should be thanking you up and down that you did as you did or he may have killed someone and totally ruined his life and others as well. What a selfish act that would have been! Congradulations!

mike68128,

So you just think we should turn a blind eye? That's the problem in so many areas- people allow others to break the law and say nothing about it. If we want to keep our community a clean and nice place to live then we have to play a part. If that part is reporting crime when we see it then I'm all for it. One question: What would your comment have been if this man had killed someone and we'd later found that Kirkham had been following him and didn't take action?

Good job Kirkham, you're an excellent example for the rest of us.

Alright! Go Kirkham! It's typically bad for individuals to get involved, but when the police can't take action... Kirkham probably saved someone's life. 7:30 am? Everyone heading to work or out running errands. That's a lot of traffic. I don't think everyone should take the law into their own hands, but when the time is right to do so, I highly respect those individuals.

Get real and get a life mister, these idiots have been coddled too long!

OF COURSE citizens should get involved. One guy stopping a drunk from hurting someone (maybe my kid, maybe YOU???) doesn't take us anywhere near the "vigilante society" realm. Now, if he'd pulled him out of the car and shot him to keep him there 'til the cops came, then yeah, I think your comment would have some validity.

i once followed a guy from point of the mountain to spingville, he was so bad he was using all three lanes, and would pull over to the side of the freeway and stop, then speed back on, then ahead of me a mile of so, then pull off and then repeat this. i called highway patrol near lehi, not one showed up till this guy left at the springville exit. sounds to me like they don't ever have an officer in this area..

If this guy hadn't been stopped and then had ended up killing someone everyone would be saying "why didn't someone do something to stop this guy if he was so obviously impaired?"
When its a matter of life or death (of some innocent person) I agree to take the kind of action that Kirkham did.
Way to go Kirkham you were awesome, I'm glad it all ended well.

There really is such a thing as "Citizens Arrest" - if someone is breaking the law.

There aren't any UHP guys around because they're all trying to bring in money stopping harmless speeders.

Great job Kirkham!

Thank you, Alan Kirkham!
Most of us appreciate you, and the risk you took for the benefit of strangers.
There will always be a few who need to grow up; may there always be people like you for them learn grown-up behavior from.