The following article appeared in the Duluth News Tribune:
DULUTH, Minn. A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers.
Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal limit, when he crashed into a parked vehicle in August 2008. He was not seriously injured.
Police said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower and had a stereo and cup holders.
Sixth Judicial District Judge Heather Sweetland stayed 180 days of jail time Monday and ordered two years of probation for Anderson. His attorney, David Keegan, did not immediately return a call for comment.
Let the good times roll!
25 comments:
I wonder what times it runs the quarter mile in. I hate to say it but that chair just looks so typical of the America of today.
I can't stop laughing long enough to come up with a witty comment.
Really? Really?
*laugh*
WOW.
Did he get a ticket for operating an unlicensed vehicle as well?
Scarlett & Viaggiatore
Mark,
I just thought it was hilarious. I didn't even try to write about the incident in my own words because I couldn't have made it any funnier.
Scarlett,
That's a great point! I'm also impressed with his ingenuity, even if it was fueled by regularly consuming 8 or 9 beers.
Wow. Just wow.
Thank you for the best chuckle I have had all day.
"His attorney, David Keegan, did not immediately return a call for comment." He's probably hiding in embarrassment.
Agent,
I know. Just when you think you've heard it all.
Jo,
You know it's bad when your defense attorney is embarrassed.
This is what happens when people can't afford RVs.
Warts,
Because they spent all their money on beer.
Not so much La-Z-Boy, more Cra-Z-Boy?
Nick,
Laughing out loud here. That would have been a good title to this post if I had thought of it.
You know what though? I kinda want one of those....
Sweet Pea,
I am charmed by the stereo and cup holders, but hate beer. I'd have to improvise.
Pretty funny! Do helmet laws apply to lazy boys.
Wow... .29 BAC. So that's how drunk you have to be to run into a parked car. Geeze.
Mami,
Apparently they should. Who knew? Of course in this case, his brain is obviously his least vulnerable spot.
Thank you for your visit, especially since we're neighbors.
Yinyang,
So I guess just short of that amount is safe. Good to know.
I am sitting here laughing at this. I rather admire it, although I do not condone driving a chair while drunk!
Meggie,
Yes, it violates the drunk chair-driving laws.
You know, when I first looked at the photo and didn't read the story, I thought it was a lounger type version of those sex chairs for women. Hmm... wonder what's on my mind?
Pamela,
Well, now you really must tell us more. I've never heard of sex chairs for women. Why am I always the last to know?
You wondered, immediately upon reading this story, if it was my husband, right?
Had it been about a woman, I think we both know who'd have been at the "wheel." This here Duluthian.
Jocelyn,
I did note that the incident took place in Duluth and thought of you. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
I really dig the look of this -- with the squiggly little blue lines. Very cool.
David,
I guess we know what to get you for Christmas, then. Beer sold separately.
Not only a drunk, also pathologically lazy. What a combo.
Ian,
I suspect it's a not uncommon combination of traits, but this fellow glorifies it.
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