Tipsy driver alerts police by mistake

Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:55am BST
 
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VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian motorist too drunk to change a tyre phoned a police emergency number by mistake instead of the breakdown service and wound up losing his driving licence, police said on Thursday.

"He mixed up emergency service numbers," a police official in the central town of Andau told Reuters. "On the phone it was clear he was highly intoxicated and we sent over a patrol car. He doesn't need his vehicle now because we took his licence."

 

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