Zamboni news

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. - Police were called to an ice arena Monday night after getting reports of a man operating a Zamboni who appeared to be intoxicated.

Apple Valley police say the 34-year-old man who was driving the Zamboni struggled to maneuver the Zamboni off the ice at Hayes Arena. The man was given a field sobriety test and arrested for driving while impaired.

Witnesses said the driver was swerving while clearing the ice and on several occasions hit the boards of the rink.

Looks like he needed this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg8214b4-NQ

I thought you had to be on public roads to get arrested for a DUI.

I did too... guess that means no more drinking and cutting grass

mad_machine wrote: I did too... guess that means no more drinking and cutting grass

Or drunken bumper cars...

This is a good place for this:

Red Green Builds a Zamboni

SVreX wrote: This is a good place for this: Red Green Builds a Zamboni

I had forgotten how much I liked that show.

what a great show

93EXCivic wrote: I thought you had to be on public roads to get arrested for a DUI.

Nope. Anything from a skateboard to a monster truck and on public or private property. Its one of those discretion things. You're probably OK cutting the grass slightly intoxicated unless you're cutting a penis into your neighbors yard.

Down here if you are crocked and mowing your grass etc the police won't bug you unless, as N Sperlo says, you are doing something really stupid. But there have been multiple cases where someone has gotten snockered then driven their riding lawnmower to the convenience store for more beer and gotten DUI. The lesson: stock up so you don't have to go back out. Also, there's been multiple cases of DUI on golf carts in some of the retirement communities, etc.

JoeyM wrote:

SVreX wrote: This is a good place for this: Red Green Builds a Zamboni

I had forgotten how much I liked that show.

'The K car is our vehicle of choice for 3 reasons: cost, availability and a sense of revenge.'

Yeeeeeee Haaaawwwwwwwwww!

Curmudgeon wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

SVreX wrote: This is a good place for this: Red Green Builds a Zamboni

I had forgotten how much I liked that show.

'The K car is our vehicle of choice for 3 reasons: cost, availability and a sense of revenge.'

How many has he put out of his misery?

93EXCivic wrote: I thought you had to be on public roads to get arrested for a DUI.

It'll be interesting to see how that case plays out.

You can certainly get popped for drunk driving on private land. Take shopping center parking lots for example. The key is those shopping center parking lots are open to the public. So to is an ice rink open to the public. But there are two very clear and substantial differences. (1) You have to pay to get in, and (2) while the Zamboni is on the ice, the entrances are blocked.

With those two differences, I'm really not sure this is a case of drunken driving or even public intoxication.

Interesting!

foxtrapper wrote:

93EXCivic wrote: I thought you had to be on public roads to get arrested for a DUI.

It'll be interesting to see how that case plays out. You can certainly get popped for drunk driving on private land. Take shopping center parking lots for example. The key is those shopping center parking lots are open to the public. So to is an ice rink open to the public. But there are two very clear and substantial differences. (1) You have to pay to get in, and (2) while the Zamboni is on the ice, the entrances are blocked. With those two differences, I'm really not sure this is a case of drunken driving or even public intoxication. Interesting!

Adding to this line of though, the shopping center's parking lot opens to the road. Driving in said lot while intoxicated implies the intention to drive on the road while intoxicated. The same can't be said about an ice rink.

that is an interesting distinction. I think I would rather get popped for public intoxication.

When I lived in PA.. I knew a guy the police were out to get. He got hit for a DUI while driving, so he did the responsible thing and stopped driving.

He then got stopped on a bicycle and hit with another DUI.

He started walking to the bar.. and got hit with public intoxication. He was a nice guy too, never did figure out why they had it out for him

One of my coworkers only smokes when he drinks. He'll have a few beers, get an urge for a smoke, then ride to the store thinking he's doing the right thing. He had no idea you could get hit with an impaired on a bicycle.

My buddy from the trailer theft thread got a ticket and 3 points for going through a red light on his bicycle.

Wait – driving in the mall lot implies an intention to drive on the street, so you're fair game?? I hope that the new policy in law enforcement is not to arrest people on the basis of the cop's understanding of what they might possibly be thinking about, or else I'll have to stop walking past my car keys in my kitchen after I have a beer. And that picture of Prime Minister Harper next to my dartboard obviously has to go.

If the police were called, that I'm guessing that the perp was not the ice rink's regular zamboni guy - or if it was, that they had prior difficulties with him and were at the end of their rope.

Stealthtercel wrote: Wait – driving in the mall lot implies an intention to drive on the street, so you're fair game?? I hope that the new policy in law enforcement is not to arrest people on the basis of the cop's understanding of what they might possibly be thinking about, or else I'll have to stop walking past my car keys in my kitchen after I have a beer. And that picture of Prime Minister Harper next to my dartboard obviously has to go.

You can be charged for being in the driver's seat of a parked car while you're impaired.

Along these lines, back where I grew up a guy got a DUI on a horse.

On a bike? Okay, it's weak, but I can see it.

On a horse? Nuh-uh. The horse is intelligent and walking home. It's not going to run over a nun or t-bone a bus full of harbor seal pups.

In reply to ReverendDexter:

The only argument needed to be made there is weather or not the intoxicated party was controlling the horse.

The horse may not be able to cause as much damage as most vehicles, but under such a parties control, I can see a certain amount of danger in riding a horse while intoxicated.

But what if the horse was intoxicated....

There was a followup story in the Minneapolis newspaper today on this - it said that at least in MN you can be charged with DUI driving any vehicle used anywhere, including on private property.

what about remote controlled vehicles? where is this arbitrary line drawn?

failboat wrote: what about remote controlled vehicles? where is this arbitrary line drawn?

There was the guy who was arrested for drunk driving in a motorized La-Z-Boy recliner a couple years ago but on the other hand, there was also a handicapped person on a Little Rascal scooter who had their DUI overturned.