Thursday, October 19, 2006

True story:

A guy was charged with being in the driver's seat of a vehicle while intoxicated even though everyone agreed he hadn't been driving.

Apparently police came across a vehicle parked in the middle of a gravel road with the engine on late on night. When police got closer, they saw a male sleeping in the driver's seat and female asleep in the passenger's seat, both completely naked.

The guy's defence argued that the female had driven and parked and that "because of the activities that occurred inside the vehicle, the accused found himself in the driver's seat."

Even though he hadn't been driving, he was fined $1,000 for being drunk and in the driver's seat. In Canada, police are allowed to assume a drunk person intends to drive if he or she is in the driver's seat of a vehicle.

Though the boring and serious stuff going on the rest of the day, I kept trying not to laugh at the idea of this poor broad-shouldered naked drunk guy.

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