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Another DWI Chair, Another eBay Auction

By Robert J. Ambrogi

What once seemed an isolated criminal incident is fast becoming a national epidemic that threatens the safety of our streets and the moral fiber of our society. I am referring, of course, to the growing problem of drunken men driving modified, motorized chairs -- and of those who try to profit from this criminality by selling those chairs on eBay. First it was Dennis LeRoy Anderson and his motorized easy chair. In August 2008, the 62-year-old Anderson got in the chair to drive home from a local bar in Proctor, Minn., and quickly crashed into a parked car. When police arrived on the scene, they found his blood alcohol level to be 0.29, more than three times the legal limit of 0.08, and arrested him for driving an easy chair while intoxicated. Recently, Anderson pleaded guilty to the DUI charge, as we reported here in October. The judge ordered him to forfeit the chair to the Proctor police department, which promptly listed the chair for sale on eBay. But just as the bidding surpassed the stellar amount of $40,000, the auction was called off. Seems lawyers for La-Z-Boy objected to the description of the easy chair as theirs when it...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).