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DUI Suspect Cracks Beer in Wrecked Car

By Michael

This week?s round-up of strange DUI tales features one man who seems to lack the sense to quit while he?s behind, cracking a fresh brew while trapped in his crashed car. Another woman let the people testing her blood know that they would find a veritable cocktail of pharmaceuticals. In Wellington, New Zealand, Paul Sneddon hadn’t merely crashed his car. He flipped his vehicle over after running into a wooden barrier along the highway. Already drunk, he found himself flipped around, trapped behind doors that were wedged shut in the crash. What did he do to pass the time as police made their way to the scene? He cracked open another beer and had himself a drink. Sneddon plead guilty to driving drunk recently, and his lawyer told the court that ?he had nothing else to do at that point,? being trapped in the car, ?so he had another beer...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).