Last Updated: Jan 8, 2008 - 9:47:11 PM


Drink driver asked cop the time
By ananova
Jan 8, 2008 - 9:46:22 PM

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A drink driver was arrested in Poland after he stopped to ask a policeman the time.

Ralf Bergmann, 23, sped off when the officer asked him to take a breath test - but drove straight into a police pound.

Bergmann, from Germany, was then trapped as the automatic door to the police pound closed trapping him inside.

He had been on a boozy trip with pals to Warsaw in neighbouring Poland when he stopped his car to ask a passerby the time.

But the man turned out to be an off-duty policeman and said he was placing Bergmann under arrest for suspected drink driving.

The German then tried to speed off but drove straight into the pound.

A breath test showed he was two times over the legal drink drive limit and he had his licence confiscated.

A police spokesman said: "He thought he would drive off but he only drove himself into a lot of trouble."




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