Just as the clock midnight, an HCSO deputy observed a maroon Subaru zoomed past Independence Trail and into downtown Idledale. When the officer fell in behind to clock the speeding vehicle, the motorist put pedal to medal and blew through a red light onto County Road 73. Now fully engaged, the officer stayed in the Subaru’s wake and activated his emergency lights, at which point his bold quarry turned off the headlights, cruising blind into a handy parking lot and slipped darkly into an anonymous parking space. The deputy wasn’t fooled. “Sorry,” said the disheveled young woman behind the wheel. She was apologizing for running a red light and trying to elude her pursuer, not for driving without license, registration or insurance information, or for the several liquor bottles rolling around in her back seat, or even for her 90-proof breath. Refusing to concede defeat, she proposed that the deputy let her go free on the strength of her pledge not to drive “anymore.” The officer countered by offering to let her perform roadside sobriety maneuvers, which she refused. She complained of the cold, at which the officer placed her in his vehicle to warm up and suggested that, while she was there, she might just as well take a breathalyzer test, which she refused. He then asked her to step out of the patrol car so he could arrest her properly, and she refused so successfully that it took two deputies to put her in custody. Once under formal arrest, she (naturally) refused to get back in the patrol car for the trip down to Golden. Confined but not conquered, she spent most of the 45-minute trip hurling insults at her long-suffering captor.