Bobby Jenks: “I took too many muscle relaxers”

Kirk Minihane of WEEI has more on the Bobby Jenks DUI arrest.

Seems Jenks was pulled over for driving erratically, and when questioned, he told the deputy that the “took too many muscle relaxers.” He had dilated pupils, glassy eyes and slurred speech. Then this:

When Deputy Sutphin asked Jenks if he had taken anything else other than the muscle relaxers, he told the officer that he “was going to be honest with you, I was just leaving Babes because I hit a car. I just had to get out of there.”

Babes is a bar. Just before that, witnesses saw a white Mercedes SUV like Jenks’, driven by a guy wearing Jenks’ clothes and with his tattoos, hit another car in the parking lot. When he stopped to look at the damage, witnesses asked the driver if he wanted a cab. The driver -- heh, it’s Jenks, but it’s funny saying “the driver” like it might be someone else -- got in the car and drove away.

Jenks failed a roadside sobriety test. But to his credit, he told the officer he would fail it before he took it, so +1 for prescience.

Minus a billion, however, for being yet another rich athlete who seems to think that he’s above taking a freaking taxi anyplace.