17 August 2011

We have the technology...

...we're just a little light on brains...
Chris Petrie, 23 and from the state of Queensland, bought the vehicle over the internet for $A600 ($630). While assembling it at a friend’s house the two sampled a few beers before Petrie decided to drive it home, according to a local television station.
drink up
“By the time we built it, it was quite late so we thought we’d go for a bit of a test run,” he told Network Ten.

He was caught by the police en route and found to be more than three times over Australia’s legal blood alcohol limit, and was charged with drink driving and driving without a license.