A Canadian man came upon the exhausting manner can get arrested for drunk driving even when the car is a Energy Wheels Barbie Jeep. Apparently, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are additionally the enjoyable police.Â
Kasper Lincoln of Prince George, British Columbia, instructed International Information that he had certainly borrowed his roommate’s daughter’s Energy Wheels Jeep to go get a Slurpee. “It isn’t prefer it was a high-speed chase,” he mentioned. “I waited till it was secure, and once I crossed the highway I used to be doing my hand indicators.”
Appears like an affordable, if slightly lazy, man with security before everything in thoughts. The RCMP, nonetheless, disagreed together with his reasoning:
“It was type of out of the odd, in addition to this can be a busy space throughout morning commute and put different drivers on the highway in danger, as nicely that individual driver himself,” Cpl. Jennifer Cooper, media relations officer for the Prince George RCMP instructed International Information.
“Motorists aren’t used to searching for somebody type of at that degree, the toy automobile degree. So it was sufficient to begin a site visitors cease.”
I can really see their level. Even my Miata sat too low for a lot of vans and SUVs to see, inflicting their drivers to not see the intense crimson sports activities automobile subsequent to them.
The site visitors cease led officers to seek out that Lincoln had a suspended license, which is probably going why he was driving the Energy Wheels as an alternative of an actual automobile. Although Lincoln denied ingesting that morning, police say he failed two breathalyzer exams, resulting in his arrest, an extra 90-day suspension, and a courtroom date. Thankfully, the car was not impounded and as an alternative returned to Lincoln’s roommate’s daughter undamaged.
If it has a motor and wheels, it is a motorcar
It might appear a bit frivolous {that a} man may very well be arrested for DUI in a toy automobile with a prime velocity of three MPH (except modified, in fact). However the Prince George RCMP was clear in its Fb publish: “If it has a motor, you’d higher be sober.” Canada takes DUI fairly severely, to the purpose the place non-Canadians who’ve been convicted of any DUI ever are thought of “criminally inadmissible” and won’t be allowed to go to Nice White North with out leaping via a bunch of authorized hoops. This might additionally clarify Lincoln’s shock over the seriousness of all this.
Moreover, there are numerous higher makes use of for a Energy Wheels Barbie Jeep than taking it to the shop for a Slurpee. You can soup it up and make it seem like an actual Jeep. You can improve the batteries and motors and take it drag racing, or race round a small observe (or even a big observe). My private favourite, although, is Excessive Barbie Jeep Racing, the place a number of drivers race unmodified toys down a steep, tough hillside, typically leading to catastrophic crashes which might be enjoyable to observe. Please do not borrow your roommate’s daughter’s Barbie Jeep to do this. It in all probability will not come again in a single piece.
h/t The Drive
