NH Liquor Commissioner Fired After -- What Else? -- a DUI

GILFORD, N.H. – New Hampshire Liquor Commissioner Richard Simard was arrested and charged with DUI in Gilford late Saturday night, police said. Gilford police received a report that Simard, 67, of Manchester, was driving erratically toward Gilford in his 2010 BMW.

Police pulled him over at about 11:50 p.m. on Lakeshore Road and conducted a field sobriety test, which police determined he failed. Simard refused a Breathalyzer, according to police.

Gov. John Lynch removed Simard as liquor commissioner on Monday.

“It is simply unacceptable for a liquor commissioner, stopped by the police on suspicion of driving under the influence, to refuse a Breathalyzer test," Lynch said in a written statement. "Under the circumstances, Richard Simard’s continued presence on the Liquor Commission would compromise the integrity of the commission."

Lynch said he would act quickly to nominate a replacement liquor commissioner.

File this one under the category of “Only in New Hampshire.”  And to quote "Granite State of Mind",

"Don't drink and drive here, listen to what I say, even though we put our liquor stores right on the highway"

Drunk Guy Hops on Lawn Mower gets DUI

(AP) ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) - An East Tennessee man driving a lawn mower in the road has been charged with DUI. Athens police said 30-year-old Jimmy Graham Jr. smelled like alcohol and failed a sobriety test Monday after an officer spotted him on the lawn mower. He told the officer he had consumed a beer and taken a stress reliever prescribed to him. A jailer said Graham was in custody Tuesday and there was no record of him having a lawyer.

The Daily Post-Athenian in Athens reported that Graham was also charged with aggravated burglary and theft under $500. A police report shows Graham told the officer he had stopped by a house to pick up some fishing poles. Police said the man who lives at the house where Graham had stopped on the mower told police the fishing poles were stolen from his garage.

Hahaha. I can't help, but laugh. So a guy gets drunk, hops on a lawn mower and decides to steal some fishing poles and it results in a $500 fine, aggravate burglary, and a DUI? Wow, hey buddy was it worth it? I mean we've all done stupid things when we were drunk. We've all thought of doing something like this when we've been blacked out hammered, but to actually act on it? If you ask me this is one guy I'd love to drink with and come up with something crazy to do because he'd almost certainly act on it, unlike me and my friends.