The Wrong Time To Have Another Beer, Or Not...

[twyacht]

Thankfully, this drunk Kiwi, only involved himself in his crash. While realizing he's trapped, and not going anywhere for a while......

Well? Pop open another one... What the hell...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M57Z20100623

Trapped drunk driver opens another beer as awaits rescue
AUCKLAND
Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:01pm EDT

AUCKLAND (Reuters) - A drunk driver trapped after overturning his car cracked open another can of beer while he waited for emergency crews to rescue him, a New Zealand court was told.

Paul Nigel Sneddon, 47, pleaded guilty to careless driving and drunken driving after being nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit in a district court in the city of Palmerston North, the Dominion Post newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Police found Sneddon, a former baker, trapped in his overturned Ford Laser on June 1, drinking a can of beer after he failed to take a corner properly and crashed through a wooden barrier, flipping his vehicle.

Defense lawyer Peter Young said that when Sneddon found he could not open the doors, "he had nothing else to do at that point, so he had another beer."

When asked by police how much he had consumed, Sneddon replied: "Plenty, I've been drinking for four days straight."

Sneddon, who is estranged from his wife, told the Wellington- based newspaper that he went on a drinking binge after losing his job at a bakery on the same day that he heard his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Judge Gregory Ross fined him NZ$1,100 (US$780) and disqualified him from driving for 10 months. It was his first offence.


Having a Homer Simpson visual at the moment..Ah yes, got it...

[philw]

hehehe 

[fightingquaker13]

You've got to give him credit for style points. A true realist. Nothing you say or do will make it better, why not have a cold one? It reminds of this bum I ran into at an on ramp. He had a cardboard sign "Need money for food" He scratched out food and wrote in Beer. I gave him the six pack I'd just bought for being honest.
FQ13

[twyacht]

You've got to give him credit for style points. A true realist. Nothing you say or do will make it better, why not have a cold one? It reminds of this bum I ran into at an on ramp. He had a cardboard sign "Need money for food" He scratched out food and wrote in Beer. I gave him the six pack I'd just bought for being honest.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

When it got to Court, I would have pleaded that I had not been drinking before the accident, but waited so long to be freed that I wound up hammered.  

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[fightingquaker13]

When it got to Court, I would have pleaded that I had not been drinking before the accident, but waited so long to be freed that I wound up hammered.  

That`can actually work. "I was so upset about the accident, I drank a few. Can you prove I had them before the crash"?
FQ13

[2HOW]

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Solus]

When it got to Court, I would have pleaded that I had not been drinking before the accident, but waited so long to be freed that I wound up hammered.  

The stress of the accident and the muscular strain of flipping over were severe.  I felt it necessary for my health to replenish fluids and relax as best as I could.   I ate the empties.

[Big Frank]

I did the same thing when my car flipped over. I got a DUI for drinking after the accident...


And before it.