Police Seize Motorized La-Z-Boy From Drunk Driver

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Minneapolis man, Dennis LeRoy Anderson was sentenced to two years of probation for the drunk driving of a motorized La-Z-Boy chair that had been treated to a number of modifications.

Anderson, whose blood alcohol level was 0.29 (three times the legal limit) when he crashed into a parked car on his way home from a bar, had fitted his chair with a lawnmower engine, headlights, a stereo and a steering system. He admitted to drinking eight or nine beers before the accident.

Although Anderson escaped jail, he had to give up the chair, which will be sold at a police auction some time in the future.

[NY Daily News]

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5 Comments on this post.
  • Baden
    26 October 2009 at 5:42 am
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    What is the legal blood alcohol limit where he is from? That would be almost six times the legal limit here (and rightly so).

    • C. S. Magor
      26 October 2009 at 2:49 pm
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      I have the feeling that it is .08, with a little bit of tolerance – probably just as close to 4 times as it is to 3.

      Where I live it is 0 for teachers and public servants and 0.03 for everyone else.

  • Baden
    26 October 2009 at 12:42 am
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    What is the legal blood alcohol limit where he is from? That would be almost six times the legal limit here (and rightly so).

    • C. S. Magor
      26 October 2009 at 9:49 am
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      I have the feeling that it is .08, with a little bit of tolerance – probably just as close to 4 times as it is to 3.

      Where I live it is 0 for teachers and public servants and 0.03 for everyone else.

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