Drunk-driver run over by own car

Helsingin Sanomat ^ | May 30 2003

[knighthawk]

At the risk of letters saying we are upholding national stereotypes, we include today a small piece that describes one of the more bizarre examples of what can happen if you mix drinking and driving. On Tuesday an intoxicated Finnish man was run over by his own car in Kokkola, on Finland's west coast.

The unlikely incident took place in the parking lot of a store. The man was attempting to get his car started, and having failed to do so using the traditional key-in-the-ignition method, he got out and opened the hood, jump-starting the car from there. Unfortunately, the vehicle was apparently in gear and it lurched forward, running over his lower legs before it collided with two other parked vehicles.

The man gave a breathalyser reading of 0.24% blood alcohol content, quite sufficient to qualify for a charge of aggravated drunken driving (upwards of 0.12% of blood alcohol), even if he was not technically behind the wheel at the time.

[knighthawk]

Monty Phyton coming true!

[knighthawk]

Ping

[aristeides]

A real hazard of drunk driving.

[Imagine]

Hood lock, we need hood locks!

[facedown]

LOL! A TGIF story.

[paul51]

Drunk gets run over by own car, private citizen takes down perp in Houston, guy loses fingers distributing abortion flyers, Pali homicide bomber gets blown up by premature detonation....Man, it's starting oput to be a pretty good day.

[Prof Engineer]

future Darwin candidate?

[HairOfTheDog]

Drunk-driver run over by own car

But he wasn't even driving!

[DManA]

I believe I actually heard this story told as a Finlander joke many years ago -

Finlander yells to a kid to run over and get him a newspaper and the kid tells him to run over yourself so...

[Badray]

If we keep meeting on these drinking threads, we're going to get a reputation. Hell, I've already earned mine, but you two better watch out.