Norwegian, 79, drives drunk in wrong car (Norway)

Yahoo ^ | March 19, 2005 | not named

[franksolich]

OSLO, Norway - A 79-year-old Norwegian might have gotten away with a quick but drunken drive to the gas station to buy tobacco, except for one thing. He drove off behind the wheel of someone else's car, the local Internet newspaper Vesteraalen Online reported Thursday.

A court this week handed the man, whose name was not released, a three week suspended jail sentence and a $2,125 fine and revoked his driver's license for three years.

In the incident, which occurred last year, the Norwegian arrived at a gas station in an aging Opel from the 1980s. When he left in a different and newer Opel, gas station staffers got suspicious and called the police.

Police found the car about 1 mile away, with the man sitting in the back seat not far from his home in Boe, on the Vesteraalen Islands off northwestern Norway. He had realized that the car wasn't his, the report said.

A blood test revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.11 parts per million, or more than five times the allowable limit in Norway of 0.02 parts per million.

[franksolich]

Well, it's Saturday night.

[GSlob]

Everyone can get slightly confused, especially at 79. Luckily he did not hit anyone.

[franksolich]

Ping for the Norway ping list.



I've been watching the "traffic" here on Free Republic--in my continuing attempts to get "maximum exposure" for stories about Norway, our allies in the war against terror.

One can tell spring is coming; last night (Friday night) was very slow, despite some important things going on all over the world, all over America.

Here in Nebraska (as probably in Norway), the tender young buds are sprouting from the trees and from the ground; I guess South Dakota got hammered by a blizzard this past week, but for whatever reasons, the snow stopped right at the South Dakota-Nebraska state line, going no further south.

With the advent of spring, one assumes traffic will slow down even more, what with everyone going out to enjoy the great outdoors.

[mikrofon]

A blood test revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.11 parts per million, or more than five times the allowable limit in Norway of 0.02 parts per million.

Wow, at that level you can't even drive by a tavern w/o being suspect...