KPaul u r my hero. For one thing, it happened in Huntington BeachDUI capitol of the world, a partying hot-spot, Surf City, with a notoriously hard-ass police force. (I got my DUI in Newport Beach, right down the street.) For another thing, CA limit is 0.8. For the average Joe who likes a few beers, that's like two in an hour. Make an illegal turn, have a taillight out, give them any excuse to stop youand off you go to HB Gaol. Of course everybody is opposed to truly drunk people careening wildly about, but DUI is now in the majority of cases a far more lucrative revenue generator for cities and the state than the traditional speeding ticket, and one it's easy to get the public behind.
In a perfect world, Gobert's employer might wait for the outcome of his trial, find out the circumstances and what his blood alcohol was, but we're talking Hondaa company which has alienated all sorts of riders to its own detriment.
Sadly, given his history, I fear Gobert Senior may be done. My own thinking on the topic began back in the day when AG was kicking ass on Muzzy Kawasakis and got busted for weed: maybe the rest of the field should try an occasional puff and see if they could catch up?
When I got the boot from a magazine job for "drunken unprofessional behavior" at a Honda press launch, they threw my DUI from a year earlier up in my face too. Pointless, really, to point out that President Bush also has a DUI on his record.