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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Man Arrested for DUI in Motorized Wheelchair - Queensland, Australia - .301 BAC

Drunk? Yes. Asleep at the wheel? Yes. On a four lane highway in Australia? Yes. BAC over six times the legal limit? Yes. In a motorized wheelchair? Yes . . . wait, what? Here's more from The Daily Telegraph:
MOTORISTS had to swerve to avoid a man asleep at the controls of a motorised wheelchair on a north Queensland highway.
Police who breath-tested him allegedly found him to be six times the legal blood alcohol limit. Police found the 64-year-old man asleep in his wheelchair in a turning lane on the Captain Cook Highway at Stratford north of Cairns on Friday morning.
Passing police noticed him slumped in the wheelchair and stopped to help. They breathalysed him when they smelt alcohol on him. He allegedly blew .301, more than six times the legal limit.
He told police he was going 14km to Trinity Beach to visit a friend, most of it on the four-lane highway.

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