This guy is living the good life...

[Roy Hobbs]

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers.

Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal limit, when he crashed into a parked vehicle in August 2008. He was not seriously injured.

Police said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower and had a stereo and cup holders.

Sixth Judicial District Judge Heather Sweetland stayed 180 days of jail time Monday and ordered two years of probation for Anderson. His attorney, David Keegan, did not immediately return a call for comment.

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You've got to be hard core to drive your recliner to the bar.  That's just crazy.  (And come on, a .29 from eight beers?  Not unless he chugged them, or weighed 85 pounds.)



It's a sort of funny story, I guess, but it's also very sad, and is in no way meant to make light of DUI.  Hopefully they can get the dude some help.

[ACF]

Notice the NHRA sticker.

[moiso]

Wow this is funny.  I think this was on Keith Olberman's oddball segment like 6 months ago.  Ridiculous.

[Celtic]

That chair should only be driven while drunk.

[BBS]

That chair should only be driven while drunk.

You know what that chair really needs is a keg and tap and then the guy would'nt need to go to the bar. He could drink pass out soil himself drink some more and so on.

[Bahku]

Isn't this one of the new line of recliners, called "Cra-Z-Boy"?!?

[RAcker]

That chair is from the 2010 Starbury line isn't it?