DULUTH, Minn. – 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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