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Police say they arrested a Kentucky man for DUI because his blood-alcohol level was double the legal limit while operating a non-motorized vehicle.
The "vehicle" was a horse.
Danny Reynolds, 55, said he was trail-riding with some friends on a road near his home in Jessamine County when he had to stop and take a break.
"I'm severely diabetic, so I stopped to eat some crackers to bring my sugar levels down when the deputy arrived and told me to get off my horse," he said.
Reynolds admitted to drinking a couple of beers. "I normally don't drink, but we were celebrating my son's birthday."
He said police arrested him after he staggered while dismounting from the horse, but that he was light- headed due to his diabetes not because he was drunk.
According to the arrest citation, Reynolds' blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. The arresting deputy said Reynolds had in his possession marijuana, several beers and a mason jar which he identified as moonshine.
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There's something to be said for knowing when you've had too much to drink. Although if you're lying on the ground, it's probably already a little too late.
Authorities say that's what happened to an Albuquerque man who was arrested - again - for drunken driving, after he called police on himself.
Antonio Candelaria recently was arrested when officers found him drunk in his driveway and lying on the ground with his foot stuck in his motorcycle.
Police say the 50-year-old had called police for help after getting his foot stuck.
According to police, Candelaria's breath test results came out above .16, which is twice the legal limit in New Mexico.
Court records showed that Candelaria had a long list of DWI arrests and a handful of convictions.
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Police arrested a northeast Pennsylvania man after he was spotted driving a golf cart, not from hole to hole, but from bar to bar.
Larksville police say the suspect told an officer he was using the golf cart Monday night because he had been drinking and needed a way to get to another bar.
The man initially refused to stop for the officer and nearly rammed a squad car with the golf cart, according to police.
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A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with driving drunk while carrying an open can of beer -- on a riding lawn mower.
Murrysville police say they found 55-year-old Thomas Marrone driving the mower along a road in the early morning.
Police say Marrone smelled of alcohol and had an open can of Coors Light in the mower's storage compartment. They say he told them he was driving to his Murrysville home -- roughly 6 miles away.
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A Rhode Island man was charged with driving drunk four times in less than two days.
Providence police arrested 53-year-old John Lourenco on a Sunday, September 21, 2014. He was then arrested three more times on Monday, September 22, 2014. Three of those arrests came after he crashed his car into either another car or a tree.
The first three times Lourenco was arrested he was released to the custody of his parents. After the fourth time, he was finally held for arraignment.
Police administered a breathalyzer test which measured him at almost three times the legal limit for alcohol.
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A North Dakota man was on thin ice after he was arrested for allegedly driving a Zamboni while drunk during a high school hockey game.
Steve Anderson, 27, was arrested and charged with DUI after people noticed the Zamboni he was driving was weaving on the ice and hitting the scoreboards during a game at South Sports Arena in Fargo, N.D.
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Police in Boulder have arrested a man suspected of being drunk while riding a horse.
No details were given as to the man's blood alcohol content -- although police did say the animal was disrupting traffic.
Police said the horseman was riding around with beer in his saddlebags, and that he also had a dog in his backpack .
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Police say a Chicago man who flagged down an officer to say "hello" ended up being charged with DUI.
Freddie Levison, 57, stopped his 2012 Chevy SUV to say "hello" to an officer in a marked squad car in Riverside, police say.
After greeting the officer, Levison continued driving, but appeared to be doing so "erratically," according to police. Levison was stopped by the officer just a few blocks away.
Police say the driver had a blood alcohol level of .210, nearly three times the legal limit, and told police his license was suspended due to a previous DUI.
Levison was charged with two counts of DUI, driving with a suspended license and illegal lane usage, police said.
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A joyous driver kicked his legs, told a dirty story and danced during a sobriety test in Gahanna, Ohio.
Dale Bentley , 39, was charged with DUI after reportedly blowing a 0.24 percent blood-alcohol level. The maximum blood-alcohol level for a driver is 0.08 percent.
Bentley was spotted by officer Reuben Hendon while driving 40 mph on a 25 mph speed limit road, and then failed to realize the officer and his partner were flashing lights to pull him over.
Officers were able to stop and give Bentley several sobriety tests, but he failed all, even started dancing while doing one of them.
Hendon reportedly said "It appeared as if Dale felt the whole encounter with police was funny and a real good time."
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A man who was arrested for a seventh DUI said he swerved his vehicle to avoid an elephant he saw in his path, say investigators.
Samuel Phipps of Delaware, was arrested and charged with DUI and for not having insurance when he crashed his 1998 Land Rover.
He drove his vehicle off of the road's left side and hit a left guardrail, said investigators.
Phipps, 31, was found at the scene by a trooper and looked impaired. According to investigators, he acknowledged that he smoke marijuana dipped in PCP before he drove.
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A man returning from a Halloween party and wearing makeup like the Joker was charged with drunken driving after crashing his car in Maine.
Police say Dennis Lalime, 64, lost control of his car at about 2 a.m., then struck multiple trees and rocks before coming to a rest. Lalime wasn't injured.
A nearby homeowner heard the crash and called police, who arrested Lalime on an operating under the influence charge.
In his booking photo, Lalime's face is painted white, with dark circles around his eyes, and his hair is dyed bright green, just like the villain in the Batman series.
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Police in New York say a 17-year-old Amish boy took them on a short chase when they tried to pull him over for having an open container of beer.
Cattaraugus County deputies tried to stop the boy, when they say he became belligerent and rode off.
Lewis Hostetler, 17, was charged with resisting arrest, unlawful possession of an alcoholic beverage by a person under 21, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, insufficient tail lamps and littering.
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A Utah school bus driver was arrested Monday on suspicion of DUI after driving erratically and nearly hitting a car on a busy stretch of highway while taking 67 elementary-school students on a field trip, authorities said.
Lycia Martinez, 39, is suspected of having taken prescription anti-anxiety/muscle-relaxer pills, which were found in her purse, Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Blaine Robbins said.
A motorist and a parent on the bus made 911 calls about the swerving, Robbins said. They said several drivers were honking their horns as Martinez failed to stay in the carpool lane.
Patrolmen pulled over the bus on in the northern Utah city of Draper - about 40 miles south of where the trip started.
Nobody was hurt on the bus, which had seven adults aboard, and no cars were hit despite driving that easily could have caused a major accident on the southbound highway with five lanes and a speed limit of 75 mph, Robbins said.
The fifth- and sixth-graders on the bus were oblivious to the situation.
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A driver was arrested after taking a front-end loader out onto the streets over the weekend in Chisago County, Minnesota.
Authorities said the driver believed it was snowing out. The snow didn't begin to fall in Minnesota until more than 24 hours later.
Officers said they determined the driver was indeed intoxicated, and he was subsequently taken into custody.
On their Facebook page, the county sheriff's office posted this quote: "I don't always drive my front end loader to Stacy, but when I do, I am probably drunk."
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Linda MacDonald, of Massachusetts, was arrested Monday night after crashing her car into a fence on Route 5 in Dummerston, Vermont.
MacDonald, 55, told police she was lost, so she was on the phone getting directions and writing them down when she crashed.
Police say she wasn't hurt, but they smelled alcohol.
Officials say MacDonald failed a breathalyzer test and was arrested and charged with drunk driving.
At the Vermont State Police barracks in Brattleboro, the woman stuck her tongue out at the camera as authorities took her booking photo.
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A northern Indiana man who realized he was too drunk to drive - but was already doing so - called 911, and told dispatchers he was driving drunk and needed to be taken off the road.
A sheriff's deputy was dispatched and obliged, charging 24-year-old Matthew Devore of Logansport with DWI.
State Police say Devore lost control of his car early Monday and it ended up in a grassy median with a flat tire.
Devore told an Indiana State Trooper he "was sick of Indiana" so he decided to "go for a drive." He said had been playing darts earlier in the night and had bloody knuckles he blamed on punching a wall.
Police said Devore's blood-alcohol level was .09, just over Indiana's legal limit for driving.
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Three men in the same Vermont family were all arrested for DUI at the scene of a single-car crash, according to state police.
The men -- Nicholas Woodward, 19; his brother, Joshua Woodward, 22; and their father, Brian Woodward, 46 -- all showed up at different times while driving under the influence to the same crash scene in Fletcher, Vermont.
The same-family DUI charges occurred as each individual came to check on the previous person's arrest.
According to state police, the Woodward family's day of DUIs began when a Vermont Fish and Wildlife Game Warden found a single-car rollover crash around 7:50 p.m. Police brought to the scene determined that Joshua Woodward was the driver and that his alcohol level was about three times the legal limit, based on a roadside breath test.
Shortly after Joshua had crashed, his younger brother Nicholas drove up to the scene to check on him and exited the vehicle. That allowed his father, Brian, to slide over from the pickup truck's passenger seat to the driver's seat and drive the vehicle still closer to the wreck.
At that time, the game warden recognized that the elder Woodward was impaired and ordered him to stop and exit the vehicle next to the scene of his younger son's original wreck. A preliminary breath sample found that Brian's alcohol level was about three times the legal limit.
Then, as troopers were arresting his father, Nicholas was observed drinking intoxicating beverages, according to police. His roadside tests and preliminary breath tests also confirmed impairment, so he was also arrested and sent to police barracks for processing alongside his father.
For Nicholas, it was his second DUI citation in two weeks; same for his brother, Joshua, who was also hit with a count of driving with a suspended license.
Police said Joshua Woodward was hospitalized with minor injuries from the crash that triggered this whole series of events.
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A Michigan man who's a Navy veteran has been ordered to spend 40 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to driving drunk behind the wheel of a lawn mower.
It was the third operating while intoxicated offense for 47-year-old Roy Walton, who was stopped by police as he was riding the mower to a Rite Aid.
Walton blew a 0.10 in a breathalyzer test which got him arrested in the parking lot outside the store. The state's legal blood-alcohol limit for driving is 0.08.
Walton had been driving a car the first two times he was charged with driving drunk.
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Police say a woman wearing a zombie costume and makeup was charged with drunken driving twice within three hours after attending an upstate New York bar's "zombie prom" party.
Police said that 26-year-old Catherine Butler, of Rochester, was arrested when an officer spotted her driving without her headlights on.
She was taken to the police department, where a friend picked her up.
Officials say she got back in her car and was stopped again around 5 a.m. driving on the same road and still in her zombie costume and makeup. Butler was again charged with DWI.
Her police mug shot shows her wearing fake blood and cuts on her face.
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Two New Jersey men are facing charges after police say they tried to cover up a DWI crash by icing the roadway to make it appear as if that's what caused the accident.
Police say 20-year-old Brian Byers, of Sparta, New Jersey, blew through a stop sign and hit a guard rail early Saturday before fleeing the scene. They say another man, Alexander Zambenedetti, then drove Byers back to the scene where Byers allegedly poured water all over the intersection, creating dangerous black ice.
A patrol officer reportedly spotted Byers walking in the middle of the road and saw Zambenedetti, also 20, sitting in the car with two five-gallon buckets of water in the back seat, with some water still inside. Police say Byers admitted that their plan had been to report that the accident was caused by the black ice - when in fact, Byers had been drinking.
"You could actually see the skid marks underneath the water they had just put there, so we knew that they had dumped this water over the top of where he lost control of the vehicle rather than the vehicle losing control on the ice itself," Sgt. Dennis Proctor told CBS New York.
The temperature had reportedly dipped to one degree with a wind chill of negative 15 at the time of the incident. Public works crews had to apply a large amount of salt in order to make the roadway safe, police told the station.
Zambenedetti, who denied pouring water on the roadway, was arrested for DWI after failing a field sobriety test, reports the station. Byers is also charged with DWI, careless driving, leaving the scene of an accident and disorderly conduct.
Police reportedly say Zambenedetti also denied driving the car to the scene, despite having been found sitting in the driver's seat with the engine running.
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Authorities say a trooper was at the wheel of a marked patrol car Saturday night when he stopped to fill his gas tank at a convenience store near Albany, New York.
While the trooper was gassing up, a man identified as Mark M. Masterson, 50, pulled in and parked next to the trooper's car. Police say Masterson got out of his vehicle and walked directly into -- that is, he bumped into -- the trooper's car.
Officials say the man showed obvious signs of intoxication and was questioned by the trooper. Police say Masterson failed field sobriety tests and was arrested for DWI. Trooper say his blood-alcohol content was 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit.
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Riverdale police said that 23-year-old Brian Chellis was found passed out in a car early Friday morning wearing an Elf on the Shelf costume.
Lt. James Macintosh says the New Jersey man was asleep behind the wheel of a van with its engine running, lights on and music blaring. He says Chellis was in a red shirt, red pants and white ruffled collar.
Macintosh says Chellis seemed confused about where he was and had an open can of beer in the car. He was issued a summons and released to a family member.
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A man wearing a shirt reading, "I'm a drunk," was arrested and charged with a DWI early Wednesday morning.
Police on Long Island arrested Kevin Daly, 22, after he slammed into a cop car.
The officer, who is on the county's SAFE-T (Selective Alcohol Fatality Enforcement Team) section, was brought to the hospital with minor injuries. Daly wasn't hurt in the collision.
His shirt read in full, "I'm not an alcoholic. I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings."
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An ice cream truck driver known in his upstate New York community as "Mr. Ding-A-Ling" has been fired for an alleged DWI.
Police say 53-year-old Phillip Hollister was driving while intoxicated.
Hollister was arrested after he allegedly swerved his ice cream truck into oncoming traffic, almost taking out a police vehicle.
Hollister was reportedly cooperative and agreed to submit to field sobriety tests. Police say Hollister had a blood-alcohol content of .15.
Brian Collis, the owner of the Mr. Ding-A-Ling truck, confirmed Hollister was fired as a result of the incident.
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