Man Charged for Drink Driving on Lawn-mower
“Gimme a six pack of beer, a bottle of wine and a pair of gardening gloves please.”
Shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday morning, Wyatt Lewis, 20, from Alaska, was caught driving at the break-neck speed of 5 mph, over a series of neighbour’s lawns in a lawn-mower. Using sirens and flashing their lights at the man, the chase was brought to a halt after a staggering 61 metres when an officer jumped out his cruiser an apprehended the man.
His blood-alcohol levels were twice the legal limit at about 0.18 percent, which constitutes a drink driving offence in the US. The man was also charged with failure to stop at the direction of a police officer.
This story reminds me of the time a man from Michigan drove his lawnmower for 2 miles through a snowstorm last January on a mission to find some more alcohol.
49-year-old Frank Kozumplik was apprehended while merrily making his way back from the off-license. He was caught driving his John Deer tractor mower down the centre of the road with four bottles of wine in a paper bag, having already drunk two bottles, he ran out - which sparked the hunt for more alcohol.
It’s good to know that even in times when you are wholly responsible for your actions, you can still find a way to blame someone else. Kozumplik, in this case, blamed his wife for taking his car and leaving him stranded without booze while she was at work.
Kozumplik, whose blood alcohol level was over two and half times the legal limit, was arrested, and charged with drunk driving.
