Police in Australia have charged a man for drunk driving in a motorized wheelchair after he was found to be six times over the legal alcohol limit, local media reported on Monday.
Police in the tropical northern Queensland city of Cairns said the man had a blood alcohol reading of 0.31, and was so drunk he was asleep at the controls of his motorized wheelchair in a turning lane of a major highway.
“It beggars belief,” Police Inspector Bob Walters told the Cairns Post newspaper…
Other motorists on the four-lane highway had to swerve to avoid the wheelchair, police said.
Ain’t nothing like equal opportunity to do something stupid.
#18 – MJ Hopper – I ran over my cats tail before, now he’s afraid of me!
Try that with hhopper and see if it has the same effect.
Post the video on YouTube.
What’s funny is my wheelchair will rise up to bar level so Harrison and I can sit at the bar!
Does it come with a breathalyzer? 0.08% and you won’t be able to drive?
If you’ve ever been to Cairns, you know how the place can drive you to drink. Here, is a great example of how that happens.
He’ll get a fine (if that) and that’s about it. You don’t even get a conviction recorded here for stealing and wrecking a Land Cruiser. Just probation. Not even reimbursment to the owner of the vehicle.
#6 bobbo said,
“…people in wheelchairs should be allowed to be as drunk as they want to be, 24/7, where ever.
Life is short. Mind your own business.”
I’ll agree with that, as long as they’re not a danger to others. Short? Absolutely, bobbo, way too darned short.
At least they didn’t tase him for not wearing a seatbelt.