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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMan Charged With Lawn Mower DUI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/tony-caulder_n_4175404.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) A Maine man faces drunken driving charges after allegedly using his riding lawn mower to make a beer run.
Police say convenience store employees turned away 51-year-old Tony Caulder when he came to the store earlier this month because they thought he was drunk.
Officials tell WMTW-TV that (http://bit.ly/17v9jgn ) the employees followed the Kennebunk man outside to make sure he wasn't getting into a car and called police when he rode off on the lawn mower.
Police charged him with operating under the influence after stopping him a short time later. Nobody answered at a phone listed in Caulder's name.
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Man Charged With Lawn Mower DUI (Original Post)
marmar
Oct 2013
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Incitatus
(5,317 posts)1. I guess he should have rode a bike. nt
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)2. He probably thought
Oh well I'm too drunk to drive a car, I'll just drive my tractor.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)3. why am I not surprised that this is in Maine...
It wasn't that long ago that I remember reading about someone getting arrested for driving his tractor while drunk. Also we have a lot of atv and snowmobile drunk driving accidents up here.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)4. Same thing happened to my wife's cousin here in Indiana
some years back. He was always in trouble with the law and I think they just needed someone to keep the jail clean for a few weeks.
panader0
(25,816 posts)5. My old drummer got one on a backhoe.
It was about ten PM. He had the lights on, bouncing down the road with four passengers, headed to the store for more beer.