Texas man to cops during traffic stop: hold my beer
License, registration and... a beer?
A Texas man literally asked a game warden who pulled him over for driving erratically to hold his beer. KWTX reports that an unidentified motorist who was picked-up earlier this month for driving while intoxicated gave one of the two arresting officers his adult beverage to hold in the Lake Waco area.
The traffic stop reportedly occurred when a man in a truck driving on the wrong side of the road cut the officers off, then got back into the right lane and waved for Texas Police and Wildlife Patrol wardens to go around him. That didn’t work.
“During the traffic stop, the wardens noticed the driver was unable to turn down the music on his radio,” officers reported.
The driver allegedly struggled to tell officers what he’d been doing, “then picked up his beer and handed it to the wardens.”
His speech was slurred and his coordination was said to have been compromised. A sobriety test reportedly confirmed the motorist was intoxicated.
The Houston Chronicle reports the man was arrested. That paper reports that wardens publish blotters roughly once a month. It’s unclear exactly when the incident occurred.
