Strange Ohio DUI Case: Ohio OVI on Barstool
This one takes the cake for creativity. Near Columbus, Ohio, a man decided to turn a barstool into a motorized vehicle and, of course, drive it after drinking (when else would one attempt to drive a barstool?). Here's part of the story:
The Columbus Dispatch : DUI charge is filed, but man never left bar stool: "Gerrit Konink was sitting in his living room around dinnertime earlier this month when he heard somebody down the street fire up what he thought was a lawnmower.
He figured one of his neighbors was getting a jump on his yard work.
Instead, it was someone jumping on a motorized bar stool.
From his window, the 66-year-old Konink then saw something buzz down Kelley Lane in Newark.
'I knew it was something strange, and then it was gone,' he said. 'It was too fast.'
Newark police say that Konink saw a neighbor riding a motorized bar stool shortly before the man wrecked while trying to make a U-turn.
Police say that Kile Wygle, 28, had one too many before wheeling his homemade oddity around the neighborhood on March 4.
Wygle was charged with driving the bar stool while under the influence of alcohol and driving while under suspension. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and asked for a jury trial. No court date has been set.
According to a report by Officer Michael Trotter, Wygle told him that his bar stool can reach a speed of 38 mph but that he was traveling only about 20 mph when he wrecked.
At Licking Memorial Hospital, where Wygle was treated for minor injuries, he chuckled about his bar stool. Wygle told Trotter that he'd had about 15 beers before the wreck. The man refused to take a blood-alcohol test.
When Trotter informed Wygle that he was investigating a traffic crash, Wygle reportedly replied that he wasn't driving a vehicle -- he was driving a bar stool."
This guy's lucky he ended up on this website rather than the Darwin awards. He should put that creativity into something useful to society, like curing a disease or the country's economic problems.
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