A man was arrested for
drink-driving a motorised picnic table as he returned home from the pub in New
Zealand.
Wade Bryce Bovey, 21, was fined $750 (approximately £420)
and banned from driving for six months in the Dunedin District Court.
Video footage on Newshub shows
Mr Bovey and friends drinking and smoking as they cruise the streets of Dunedin
sitting together on the motorised picnic table.
Dunedin Police pulled the inventive motorist over in
January as he pushed the table up a hill on his way home from the pub, as its
engine wasn't powerful enough to propel it up.
Mr Bovey initially believed that the police had stopped
to help him push the vehicle but unfortunately for him they had other
intentions.
Police then breathalysed Mr Bovey and recorded his breath
alcohol level as 678mcg per litre of breath, which exceeded the legal limit of
400mcg.
Bovey said in his defence that he was not driving the
table at the time, he was pushing it up the hill.
There was a box of beer sitting on the picnic table at
the time.
Mr Bovey has since sold the
motorised picnic bench, and told the Otago Daily Times that buying it had
been a bad idea and he 'had his fun, got in trouble, sold it.'
Motorised picnic tables have become something of a
phenomenon down under, becoming particularly popular in Perth, western
Australia where the novel 'vehicles' have even appeared for sale on the online
marketplace Gumtree for as much as $2,000.
In 2015, a group were caught driving motorised picnic
tables along the roads of the Scarborough Beach area in western Australia.
Photos and video footage of their escapades
went viral on social media and police requested help from the public via
Facebook to identify those involved citing serious safety concerns with the
'vehicle'.
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