MAN IN WHEEL CHAIR CHARGED W/ DRUNK DRIVING......?

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Police in Australia have charged a man for drink driving in a motorized wheelchair after he was found to be six times over the legal alcohol limit, local media reported on Monday. Police in the tropical northern Queensland city of Cairns said the man had a blood alcohol reading of 0.31, and was so drunk he was asleep at the controls of his motorized wheelchair in a turning lane of a major highway. It beggars belief," Police Inspector Bob Walters told the Cairns Post newspaper, adding wheelchairs, bicycles, horses and skateboards were all considered to be vehicles under the state's road laws. "It's unlawful, it is unacceptable and people should realize it could lead to a fatality," he said. Other motorists on the four-lane highway had to swerve to avoid the wheelchair, police said. (Reporting by James Grubel; Editing by David Fox) Me and a friend were driving home one night, actually I was driving her home cuz she couldn't drive and we drew straws to see who was gonna drive cuz neither one of us should've been doing any kind of motorized functions.....in fact, we probably would have been safer on wheel chairs.......ANYWAYS (I always get off point....), we were traveling down the road and low and behold we see all this commotion ahead of us and it was some of our local finest; their blue lights just a blinking with their LCD lights just enamoring me towards them like a beekon of light.......should have turned the other way, but I couldn't......not me......my friend was freak'n cuz she was going, "what the hell are ya do'in????" I said I had to see what the commotion was and it was gonna be all right......low and behold, 2 police officers had a guy, oh I would say about in his 60's stopped on a lawn mower!! Double duty here......my friend had an epiphany in her drunken stupor and remembered that he was the guy earlier in the night that had been spin'n hookers on main street in front of her house and now this was about 10pm at night.......always wonder'd what happened to him.........we drove off, ever so slowly and just chuckled.........