Boy, these Australians live large. Here's something from a decade ago from Newark, Ohio (pronounced Nerk, Ahia)
random selections from news articles:
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... 911 tapes ... calm exchange between the driver's friend and the dispatcher.
"I got a friend who wrecked a bar stool," the caller said.
Police in Newark ... found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
consumed 15 beers
"I drank quite a bit after [the crash] because my head hurt so bad. I went in and drank a half a bottle of whiskey,"
can go up to 38 mph
charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated
pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.
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The local news round there carried some followup. The guy had lost his driving license for DUI already. So he had to walk to the bar. He met someone in the bar that offered to sell him a motorized bar stool. So he bought it.
The day he got busted, the neighbours had heard him zooming it up and down the alley and doing tricks. When the cops showed up he was sitting on the sidewalk, bleeding profusely, drinking a beer.
I been in that bar. The sentiment round there was, (recall this was just after the bankers had gambled away all the money and the auto companies were on govt life support)
"Put him in charge of GM. He can't do any worse."
for the truly curious:
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Man_arrested_after_crashing_motorized_bar_stool_while_drunksidd