Norwegian, 79, Drives Drunk in Wrong Car43 minutes ago
OSLO, Norway - A 79-year-old Norwegian might have gotten away with a quick but drunken drive to the gas station to buy tobacco, except for one thing. He drove off behind the wheel of someone else's car, the local Internet newspaper Vesteraalen Online reported Thursday.
A court this week handed the man, whose name was not released, a three week suspended jail sentence and a $2,125 fine and revoked his driver's license for three years.
In the incident, which occurred last year, the Norwegian arrived at a gas station in an aging Opel from the 1980s. When he left in a different and newer Opel, gas station staffers got suspicious and called the police.
Police found the car about 1 mile away, with the man sitting in the back seat not far from his home in Boe, on the Vesteraalen Islands off northwestern Norway. He had realized that the car wasn't his, the report said.
A blood test revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.11 parts per million, or more than five times the allowable limit in Norway of 0.02 parts per million.
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