Man loses license for driving beer cooler while drunk

[mobs00]

New wheels - Petrie tested the vehicle while drinking

An Australian man caught driving a scooter created out of a motorised beer cooler - while drinking - has been fined and had his driving licence suspended.

The unconventional scooter featured a cooler box mounted on a wheeled frame and powered by a 50cc engine, complete with a steering handlebar.

The cooler doubled as a driver's seat and was able to hold up to 48 bottles of beer.

Chris Petrie, 23, and from the northeastern state of Queensland, bought the vehicle over the internet for $AUS600 (over €400).

While assembling it at a friend's house the two sampled a few beers before Petrie decided to drive it home, according to a local television station.

'By the time we built it, it was quite late so we thought we'd go for a bit of a test run,' he told Network Ten.

He was caught by the police en route and found to be more than three times over Australia's legal blood alcohol limit.

The 23-year-old was charged with drink driving and driving without a licence.

In court, the judge asked if the cooler was fully loaded and was told it was full of canned rum and Cokes, Network Ten added.

The sentence included an A$500 fine.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0817/australia.html

[baby maker]

....a new take..."on drive you to drink"....

........only in Aus....cops...no sense of humour....

[mobs00]

Must have been embarrassing to be caught out with an esky full of rum and coke cans

[baby maker]

Must have been embarrassing to be caught out with an esky full of rum and coke cans

....should have done what the drugies..do...swallow the evidence...
Wait a minute...that's the problem..isn't...
no citation for "over loading"....

[Fondles]

....a new take..."on drive you to drink"....

........only in Aus....cops...no sense of humour....

Not a new take on anything, In Aus you can go DUI whilst ridding a pushbike.

[The Muffinman]

........only in Aus....cops...no sense of humour..

Ain't that the truth...don't think I've ever seen a Qld copper crack a smile in my 10 years of living there.

[baby maker]

....a new take..."on drive you to drink"....

........only in Aus....cops...no sense of humour....

Not a new take on anything, In Aus you can go DUI whilst ridding a pushbike.

....in the day....had a mate "done" for tieing his horse to a parking meter outside the Contry Club Hotel in South East Queensland....the charge.."drunk in charge of a horse"....

[Wally Dorian Raffles]

^did he lose his driving licsense too?

[baby maker]

^did he lose his driving licsense too?

....really can't speak to that....but he had a better sense of humour that the cop...
after all he was fedding the meter....how we did laugh...

& the horse....a shandie....