Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 404
This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Anything You Can Sit On
People assume a DUI requires a car. A real car, with four wheels, a steering wheel, and a stereo loud enough to annoy the neighbours. After years of working on impaired driving files, I can tell you the law has a much bigger imagination than that. The word that does the heavy lifting is not “car.” It is “operate.” And once you understand how broadly that word gets read, you start to look at the lawn equipment in your shed a little differently.
The stories this week are all variations on one theme. Each one features a person who got behind the controls of something that was never meant to leave the driveway, or the pasture, and discovered that the police did not find the choice of vehicle nearly as funny as the internet did. The machines keep getting stranger. The charges keep getting laid anyway.
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