When your nap is done and you want to ride on cocaine.
Posted on 09/28/2026 6:11:28 PM PDT by simpson96
A 76-year-old Florida man with a suspended license allegedly admitted during a traffic stop that he had been drinking rum — later telling deputies he had also recently used cocaine — just four months after a separate DUI arrest, authorities said.
Charles Ducking, 76, of Lake Wales, was pulled over after a sheriff's deputy allegedly observed him swerving while driving along U.S. Highway 27 in Waverly, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
The deputy detected the odor of alcohol and noticed that Ducking allegedly had slurred speech and watery eyes.
When asked for his driver's license, Ducking allegedly told the deputy it had been suspended.
Charles Ducking and Polk County background Charles Ducking allegedly told a Polk County sheriff's deputy that his license was suspended because of a DUI and admitted he had been drinking, authorities said. (Polk County Sheriff's Office; TW Farlow/Getty Images)
"Well, I can't show you my driver's license cuz it's suspended cuz DUI. And I have been drinking a little bit right now," he said, according to the sheriff's office.
Officials said Ducking then showed the deputy a silver thermal cup containing a brown liquid.
"This here is my rum I'm drinking," he said, according to the sheriff's office.
A traffic deputy who responded to conduct a DUI investigation immediately recognized Ducking from a previous DUI arrest in May, the sheriff's office said.
Officials said deputies also found a small orange container containing cocaine during a search of Ducking's vehicle, which allegedly prompted Ducking to tell law enforcement he had "done a line" 10 minutes before he was pulled over.
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Polk County must be amazing....
76??
He looks 106!!
What brand of rum?
If it was Captain Morgan give him a life sentence.
Appleton 12 gets time served.
L
I think Lakeland may be the epicenter of Florida Man.
Is he a Jimmy Buffett fan?
Ducking and weaving !
Hunter S. Thompson would tell the cop, 'that's how you balance out the rum.'
Old guy has a Rum and Coke, back in my day no one would have cared or blinked an eye or pulled him over.
why is this news ?
Imagine the defense attorneys cringing and silently saying: “Quiet, you fool, you have the right to remain silent.”
Admitted to no license, a DUI, drinking while driving and doing a line of cocaine. What next, cheated on his federal tax returns? Got the extra year extension discount on Reader’s Digest when he was not entitled to it on the renewal.
LOL.
Heard his wife was at home, sadly alone, drinking Jacks like
Ella Langley in Choosin’ Texas.
Any thread with a Hunter Thompson quip is a great thread.
I like Flor de Cana.
Florida Man be partyin’
El Dorado 15 Year is superb.
L
I’ll try it. Thanks.
You didn’t read the story did you. He crashed his car in a construction area got out with his two years old and ten month old and tried to escape through the swamp. Dropping them in the water repeatedly and falling with them in the water. Got arrested. Kids okay.
Nope, read summary that said nothing about that
without reading the article I can still say with almost no doubt he does not have kids 2yrs old and 10 months old.
but it is florida so ?
HIS KIDS OR GRANDKIDS???
76 WITH YOUNG KIDS IN ANOTHER STORY ENTIRELY
When your nap is done and you want to ride on cocaine.
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