Surprising item balancing on Aussie driver's roof baffles police: 'Unbelievable'
Bodycam footage of the stop shows the puzzled officer greet the motorist one afternoon in Albany, Western Australia, before pointing out the glaring red flag sitting just centimetres above his head.
Video of the random breath test has gone viral after it was released by the WA Police Force on Friday, and while authorities have made their feelings about the incident clear, thousands of viewers couldn't resist cracking a joke.
'Some people leave their phone on the roof. This guy? His beer bottle,' the force captioned the clip. 'Nothing says 'pull me over' quite like mobile happy hour.
'42,599.73 hours spent patrolling the roads. 707 traffic charges. One beer bottle found on roof,' officers added. 'Let's keep the drinks in the fridge, not on the freeway.'
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Police spotted the vehicle with the beer bottle on the roof at around 5pm on June 9, a spokesperson for WA Police told Yahoo News.
In the footage, the officer asks the driver if he had consumed any alcohol that day. 'Not this morning, no,' the man responds, prompting the cop to point out the glass hitchhiker.
'Oh,' the driver says before blowing 0.367 — more than seven times the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit.
The motorist, who said the bottle had been on his car roof since the prior night, was arrested and charged with driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, the police spokesperson told Yahoo. He appeared before the Perth Magistrates Court on July 6, where he was issued a $4,000 fine and had his licence disqualified for three years.
Many Aussies have praised the police officer online for doing a 'good job', while others wondered how the beer bottle had stayed upright. 'This is the new 'waiting for a mate',' one woman commented.
'How is he still upright?' someone else said. 'Unbelievable,' a third person wrote.
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