Drunk? Need to leave the bar? Let your bar stool find the way home!

[tomson75]

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Man charged with drunk driving on bar stool
Cops: 28-year-old wrecked stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower

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Man charged for driving bar stool while drunk


March 31: Police in Ohio are charging a man with drunken driving after he crashed his motorized bar stool. WCMH's Ana Jackson reports.
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NEWARK, Ohio - A 28-year-old man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool, Ohio authorities said.

Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.

Police released the 911 tapes, revealing the calm exchange between the driver's friend and the dispatcher.

"I got a friend who wrecked a bar stool," the caller said.

When asked by the dispatcher whether he hit his head inside the bar, the friend replied, "Um, no, he was riding the bar stool ... a motorized bar stool."

Kile Wygle, the bar-stool rider, was hospitalized for minor injuries.

During an interview after his crash, Wygle told the reporter, "I drank quite a bit after I wrecked."

Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers.

Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.

Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.

 

[Jon88]

You can get a DWI on a bicycle.

 

[DallasFanSince86]

You can get a DWI on a bicycle.

Wouldn't that be PWI?

Pedaling While Intoxicated.

 

[tomson75]

You can get a DWI on a bicycle.

The police in my town tried to give my buddy a DUI on his skateboard once. It didn't go over well.

We used to use them to get around to college parties so we didn't have to drive. I can understand getting a public intoxication charge, but a DUI on a skateboard? c'mon!

The sad fact is, there are nights where my town is probably looking at a 50%+ intoxication percentage behind the wheel. It's completely obvious...and yet some cops are harassing kids for skateboarding or riding their bikes to parties. Pretty lame IMO.

 

[Jon88]

The police in my town tried to give my buddy a DUI on his skateboard once. It didn't go over well.
We used to use them to get around to college parties so we didn't have to drive. I can understand getting a public intoxication charge, but a DUI on a skateboard? c'mon!

The sad fact is, there are nights where my town is probably looking at a 50%+ intoxication percentage behind the wheel. It's completely obvious...and yet some cops are harassing kids for skateboarding or riding their bikes to parties. Pretty lame IMO.

I can see where that didn't go over well.

I wouldn't want to be on the roads on Friday and Saturday nights if that's the case.

 

[tomson75]

I wouldn't want to be on the roads on Friday and Saturday nights if that's the case.

Nope.

You could sit at the corner of a stop light and count the number of cars with twice their capacity, full of cigarette smoke and loud music until 4am....and you can do it 3 nights a week. Kinda scary, really. I'd be willing to bet that VERY few of them have DDs.

It's amazing we don't have more DUI checkpoints.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

You can get a DWI on a bicycle.

you can get one riding a horse too

 

[Jon88]

Nope.

You could sit at the corner of a stop light and count the number of cars with twice their capacity, full of cigarette smoke and loud music until 4am....and you can do it 3 nights a week. Kinda scary, really. I'd be willing to bet that VERY few of them have DDs.

It's amazing we don't have more DUI checkpoints.

You must have a lot of corrupt cops, not enough cops, or a bunch of lawyers who get people out of DWI's. There's one lawyer here in town that can get you out of one in a heartbeat. A freind of mine got a DWI and hired this guy and they "lost his papers" and his case never went to court.