Goo' evening ossifer, what makesh you think I'm drunk?
April 20th 2010 09:31
A British man has been arrested for drink driving, after being caught behind the wheel of his daughter's pink electric Barbie car.
40 year-old Paul Hutton was cruising up and down his street in Essex, UK, tearing up the pavement at a blistering 6 kmh when police drove around the corner.
Paul didn't help his case when he admitted to having souped-up the car - he'd fitted bigger wheels which increased its top speed by approximately one kmh.
He's lost his licence for 3 years, and been fined $100.
While it might seem like an unusual case, Paul's is only one of thousands of bizarre DUI cases to go before the courts every year. Only a few, though, are sufficiently strange to find their way into the global media.
One that did was the case of 62 year-old Dennis Leroy Anderson from Minnesota who was arrested last October for being drunk at the wheel of... wait for it... his sofa.
Dennis had strapped wheels and a lawn mower engine to his La-Z-Boy, then added a boom box, lamp and cup holders for his beer.
Sadly Dennis' first drive was also his last, after his blurry vision failed to warn him of his neighbour's parked car, which he slammed into.
Dennis lost his license after blowing three-times the legal limit.
Just two months earlier police in Vermont, also in the US, picked up Joe Quigley as he tried to drive his snowmobile along a paved street.
Joe was making slow but noisy progress, and tearing up the road surface when he was breathalyzed at .183.
And you can't help but feel sorry for 22 year-old Cory Mitchell Syms, who was fined in 2007 for riding his skateboard while drunk.
Caught running red lights and weaving in and out of traffic, Cory's fate was sealed when he told police he was trying to do the right thing by skateboarding, because he was too drunk to drive.
In October 2007 an 8 year-old boy called 911 in the US to report his own mum for drink-driving.
The little fella bravely told dispatchers his mum had been drinking and he was worried for his safety and that of his 5 year-old sister, who was also in the car.
33-year-old Paulette Lynn Spears wrestled the phone off her son and hung up, but police had already tracked her car and she was stopped a short time later.
My favourite case though is one that shows there's always a little hope, even among people stupid enough to get behind the wheel after they've been drinking.
Last December 49 year-old Mary Straye called police to report a drunk driver - herself.
Mary explained that she didn't know what to do and didn't want to hurt anybody. The dispatcher talked her into pulling over and switching off her car.
Police who arrested Mary praised her for her honesty and the shred of common sense that managed to make its way to the fore of her sozzled brain.
But they still booked her with misdemeanor drink driving after testing more than double the legal limit.
40 year-old Paul Hutton was cruising up and down his street in Essex, UK, tearing up the pavement at a blistering 6 kmh when police drove around the corner.
Paul didn't help his case when he admitted to having souped-up the car - he'd fitted bigger wheels which increased its top speed by approximately one kmh.
He's lost his licence for 3 years, and been fined $100.
While it might seem like an unusual case, Paul's is only one of thousands of bizarre DUI cases to go before the courts every year. Only a few, though, are sufficiently strange to find their way into the global media.
One that did was the case of 62 year-old Dennis Leroy Anderson from Minnesota who was arrested last October for being drunk at the wheel of... wait for it... his sofa.
Dennis had strapped wheels and a lawn mower engine to his La-Z-Boy, then added a boom box, lamp and cup holders for his beer.
Sadly Dennis' first drive was also his last, after his blurry vision failed to warn him of his neighbour's parked car, which he slammed into.
Dennis lost his license after blowing three-times the legal limit.
Just two months earlier police in Vermont, also in the US, picked up Joe Quigley as he tried to drive his snowmobile along a paved street.
Joe was making slow but noisy progress, and tearing up the road surface when he was breathalyzed at .183.
And you can't help but feel sorry for 22 year-old Cory Mitchell Syms, who was fined in 2007 for riding his skateboard while drunk.
Caught running red lights and weaving in and out of traffic, Cory's fate was sealed when he told police he was trying to do the right thing by skateboarding, because he was too drunk to drive.
In October 2007 an 8 year-old boy called 911 in the US to report his own mum for drink-driving.
The little fella bravely told dispatchers his mum had been drinking and he was worried for his safety and that of his 5 year-old sister, who was also in the car.
33-year-old Paulette Lynn Spears wrestled the phone off her son and hung up, but police had already tracked her car and she was stopped a short time later.
My favourite case though is one that shows there's always a little hope, even among people stupid enough to get behind the wheel after they've been drinking.
Last December 49 year-old Mary Straye called police to report a drunk driver - herself.
Mary explained that she didn't know what to do and didn't want to hurt anybody. The dispatcher talked her into pulling over and switching off her car.
Police who arrested Mary praised her for her honesty and the shred of common sense that managed to make its way to the fore of her sozzled brain.
But they still booked her with misdemeanor drink driving after testing more than double the legal limit.
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