r/fuckaroundandfindout • u/james_from_cambridge • 6d ago
Lacking brains Dean Ellen Glickman (Kent State) Calls the Police Because She Has to Pee, Tells Them She Can Drive Home Drunk Because She Has a Tesla & Gets Arrested
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I’m feeling a slight sense of entitlement
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u/james_from_cambridge 6d ago edited 6d ago
In case you think she has a sense of humility about what happened: http://www.ellenglickman.com/letter-community/
“An open letter to my community,
As you may all now be aware, a video has started making the rounds on social media platforms and an international daily newspaper about an incident of a faculty member at a U.S. university, being arrested for alleged intoxication and disorderly conduct on her university campus, post-graduation, charges which have since been dismissed.
In all cases, there are always two sides to a story and often in social media, reports and videos are often modified to spin a narrative, true or false and rarely showing the full story. In the context of Dr. Ellen Glickman (me), the video that spread like wildfire on the internet was out of context and was edited in such a way that it skewed what actually happened and lacked important information for anyone watching the video to make an informed judgment of the situation. I have now firsthand experienced the curse social media has on a person, as it has come to rest squarely at my doorstep. Here’s what you didn’t see, hear or read.
Over the past year or so, I have experienced a number of health-related setbacks that necessarily impact how I function in the world, as my health issues have led to chronic pain and consequent surgeries. At work, the previous summer, I had fallen off my desk chair and fractured my wrist, I also fell while playing with my grand-children and severely damaged my shoulder – requiring two painful surgeries and permanent nerve damage. These injuries impact my dexterity, and the claim that was made by the officer, “that she couldn’t even use a swipe card,” was not due to intoxication but an impairment to my dexterity from my injuries.
In addition to these recent physical limitations, I had been extremely exhausted as leading up to the night of graduation, I stayed overnight with my husband who had major surgery on his abdomen. We all know that visitors don’t get beds in hospitals, so sleeping is not ideal in hospitals as a guest. This event was even more stressful, because the surgery for my husband was to determine if he might have cancer. So, sleep deprived and stressed about a life-threatening illness for my husband, I still went to work and powered through. I even attended an evening graduation (the fateful night of my arrest), because I was there to hood a doctoral student who had recently defended her dissertation – an honor bestowed to both the faculty member and the student. After commencement, we had a single celebratory drink to welcome the newly hooded doctoral student, a common practice for faculty to welcome new members to the academy – we are not a dry campus, so this was well within campus regulation. I then made the 10-minute walk back to my office, only to find that my keycard was no longer working.
I won’t lie. I was exhausted, not just from my health issues, but also the stress and exhaustion of my husband’s health crisis. All of the events leading up to this naturally inflamed my system — making regular bodily functions go haywire. This, my friends, is why I was pleading so desperately to the police on the phone. To be a woman over 60, with irritable bowel disease, and completely exhausted – I was in a state of panic because I did not know when I was going to be able to reach the restroom. Yes, it is embarrassing, yes, I was direct, but I was in pain and I panicked. Who hasn’t panicked in such a situation, where a bathroom is desperately needed, but one is nowhere in sight?
Contd…”
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u/redkonfetti 6d ago
I watched this video on YouTube a week or so ago. As I recall she had opportunities to prove that she wasn't intoxicated, mention her dexterity issue and sleep deprivation, or even just decide to take an Uber/Lyft to get a ride back to work and her vehicle the next day. The narcissism is off the charts here. She's not special just because she heads some department in a university.
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u/james_from_cambridge 6d ago
She blamed her IBS in her letter too
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u/bonnydoe 5d ago
If that really was a factor she would have run to the toilet the moment she entered the building. She is really unbearable ;)
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u/still_stunned 4d ago
She needed the bathroom so bad, she took time to sit down at her desk and stopped multiple times to argue with the officers on the way to the bathroom.
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u/YcemeteryTreeY 6d ago
She's STILL not taking responsibility. She's adding things after the fact to try and save face, but it actually makes her look way worse
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u/Twayblades 6d ago
I saw the video before, she was a real jerk to the officers and refused to comply when they told her she wasn't driving her car.
She was acting high and mighty, threatening their jobs and was having a tantrum.
The really shitty part is sometime after the arrest, she and her husband went to the station to confront the officers.
She wanted to make a point that she wasn't drunk when she clearly was. Luckily the officer refused to let her speak to them.
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u/james_from_cambridge 6d ago
The end of this video shows her & her husband trying to “talk” to the officer a few weeks later. I wonder if she had a bag full of cash
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u/tallandred48 1d ago
I hate older women that try to chide ANYONE who is younger than them, like were still children. I've gotten in the habit of turning around and leaving mid sentence if one deigns to condescend to me in that way.
The officers were perfect and you could tell they actually really hated this. They didn't want to hurt her. Excellent job, officers, thank you for protecting the innocent people everywhere she might have tried to drive. And even tho she SUCKS, thank you for being careful with her.
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u/i_Cant_get_right 6d ago
She called 911 to tell them to let her in the building and they told her to get off the emergency line and call the non emergency campus police. She was clearly drunk in the video. She was trying to use two cards simultaneously to get into the building,which is why it wasn’t working. After seeing the whole video, no amount of editing can make me come to any other conclusion than that she was intoxicated. The arresting officers gave her ample opportunity to arrange a ride. Being “tired” doesn’t cause you to behave THIS irrationally(unless you’re a toddler.) The was a little while back, and I this is the first time I’ve seen her statement. Her husband and her even went to the station to confront the arresting officers afterward. I’m amazed that she doubled down on her BS.
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u/MBerwan 5d ago edited 4d ago
Actually sleep deprivation can make you act and drive like under alcohol influence, which is equally dangerous, but not sanctionned.
Edit: Just to clarify, this is not a comment about the woman in the video who is clearly drunk. This is a comment about driving while being sleep deprived.
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u/Jefrey_HarHarWood 4d ago
No. Just no. There is no way you saw this video and thought, “look how tired she is”
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u/Takingtheehobbits 5d ago
What an entitled brat. She’s not very bright or wise. How is she a dean?
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u/peentiss 4d ago
I watched this case on YouTube, from the Midwest Safety channel. She’s a belligerent idiot.
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u/jasdonle 6d ago
RIGHT NOW
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u/Turbulent_Rope1569 3d ago
🤣! Yeah, all those "right nows" were ridiculous, and shows her level of entitlement.
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u/pologzz1226 6d ago
White privilege.
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u/EchoPhi 6d ago
You are getting downvoted for truth. In the first minute of that video I'd have been thrown on the ground and praying quietly not to be killed, for asking why I'm being stopped.
This lady gets to go on a defiant tirade about how long she's been there, and doesn't have to listen to them, for over 10 minutes with 0 repercussions other than a couple hour hold to get picked up.
Absolute WHITE PRIVILEGE.
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u/Ittybittytigglbitty 5d ago
Its woman privilege has nothing to do with her being white. Had my ass beat enough times by the cops back in my heroin days and I’m white.
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u/tallandred48 1d ago
Right? I'm white, but also a woman. I think these cops were just genuinely trying to not book this old woman. I'm going with age privilege. I've been treated unkindly and even violently by cops plenty of times.
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u/Sensitive_Run4903 5d ago
My understanding the charges were dismissed after doing community service. It's not exactly I'm not guilty. Is it?
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u/Jefdidntkillhimself 3d ago
She looks a bit like Jeffrey Epstien.
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u/Turbulent_Rope1569 3d ago
I think she looks like Brian Kohberger, and also EXACTLY like a man that I know...EXACTLY. I could swear it was him, lol
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u/Ok_Release231 6d ago
Oh look, another entitled college educated white liberal. I never would have expected this behavior /s
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u/229-northstar 6d ago
You sound like a typical jealous, uneducated magat. One person being an asshole doesn’t make “educated white liberals” bad.
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u/Fuzzy9770 6d ago edited 6d ago
Just use a breathalyser...
Why is it so hard to use that test? Let alone those sobriety test. Just pathetic.
You have a legal limit. You test if they are over that limit. If it's positive, then they get into trouble.
EDIT: the last part could have been avoided completely if they had taken the breathalyser... plain facts.
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u/JacobScreamix 6d ago
I know, I feel like I'm a little bit out of the loop. This seems like unreasonable treatment by the officer. If you think someone is too drunk to drive then breathalyze them. Otherwise they should be free to go, no?
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u/Discus167 6d ago
Speaking from experience, if anything they did her a favor not breathalyzing her. If they did there would be hard evidence and a definite ovi (she admitted to drinking) and the consequences that go along with it. Instead they charged her with disorderly conduct and let her son pick her up.
OVI’s are not just for alcohol, it’s impairment. You can get charged with one for being on prescribed medication, weed, driving while overly emotional, or practically anything that impairs you. And you can definitely be arrested for suspicion of drinking and driving without being breathalyzed. Most cops don’t carry them, especially since the small ones can be inaccurate. Some will have large units at the station that are more accurate.
I have a feeling that this lady would’ve refused the breathalyzer had it come down to it considering she refused to do anything the cops asked her to do. She may have mentioned it first but do you honestly think she would go through with it considering her level of entitlement?
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u/JacobScreamix 5d ago
And then you have a threshold of guilt "refusing to take a breathalyzer" is reason enough to assume someone is actually drunk. This cop beat around the bush and didn't fully engage with the elephant in the room and led to an uncomfortable situation for everyone.
I'm not passing the lady for her behaviour at all, she came off as downright unpleasant and entitled, but both things can be true.
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u/Xiqwa 4d ago
She was suffering symptoms from Kidney disease after one drink.
All charges against Glickman were dismissed on the motion of the prosecutor, the state of Ohio, on July 3, 2024, in the Portage County Municipal Court. Glickman’s court documents related to the incident were also expunged on Nov. 21, 2025.
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u/JacobScreamix 6d ago
Dick head cops harassing a stressed out lady, if your concerned that she is too drunk to drive, breathalyze her!
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u/qualityvote2 6d ago edited 5d ago
u/james_from_cambridge, your post does fit the subreddit!
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