This has to be one of the strangest driving while intoxicated (DWI) arrests in a long time. 

Once again Australia represents with a strange beer nut.  A man in Cairns (northern Australia) was arrested with a blood alcohol content of 0.31, six times the legal limit.  In fact he was so drunk; he was passed out at the wheels.

You read that right, wheels.  He was driving a wheelchair.  

The 64-year-old man was passed out in the motorized wheelchair while driving in the turning lane of a major highway.  There was no word if his turn signal was blinking.  Cars were swerving around the weaving wheelchair trying to avoid what would surely be a DWI fatality.  The wheelchair was not equipped with seat belts or airbags.

Police eventually caught the man (after a slow speed chase) and arrested him.  It’s fair to say they couldn’t give him a warning and let him walk it off.  The DWI laws in Cairns include all vehicles, including bicycles, skateboards, and horses.

The wheelchair was just like this, but motorized, probably a different color, and carrying a drunk guy. (courtesy Wikipedia)

I’m desperately trying to think of a good Stephen Hawkins or Larry Flint tie-in, but I’m coming up short.  Anyone know of any good snakry drunk wheelchair jokes? 

(Source Reuters) 

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