Low-Speed Police Chase. Another reason NOT to drink...

Brutuskend

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Apr 2, 2001
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An officer on his way to work at 6:30 in the morning was startled to see a 30-year-old man traveling down the shoulder of the street on a child's Fisher Price Power Wheels car. The 180-pound rider was about 10 times the recommended age for the battery-operated car, which held up under his weight and putted along at 3 mph. Police eventually stopped the man after perhaps the slowest chase on record. The officer sounded his car horn and showed his badge to the driver, who ignored him. So the officer got out of his vehicle and pursued the man on foot. It was tough, but the officer was able to keep pace with the man. Police said the driver smelled of alcohol and stumbled as he tried to get up. The officer took the man to police headquarters and released him after he sobered up. A woman who called police to report that her son's toy car had been stolen opted not to press charges. The man was not charged with DWI, he was only "driving" a toy, after all. And, he couldn't be charged with eluding an officer for obvious reasons, but police did charge the man with public drunkenness.
 

Keego

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Aug 15, 2000
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I said I was sorry :eek:


(If I didn't hurry, I wouldn't have gotten to the other bar in time!)