‘Off the chart’: RBT discovery stuns police in Western Australia
Cops were baffled by the “unbelievable” feat of one driver, who blew over seven times the blood alcohol limit while behind the wheel.
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Police have been left baffled by the “unbelievable” feat of one man, who was caught driving over seven times the legal blood alcohol limit in Western Australia.
The force shared bodycam footage of the interaction to their TikTok account, captured while performing random breath testing, much to the humour of their social media followers.
“Some people leave their phone on the roof. This guy? His beer bottle,” the caption on the video, which can be seen below, read.
“Nothing says ‘pull me over’ quite like mobile happy hour.”
It continued: “42,599.73 hours spent patrolling on the roads. 707 traffic charges. 1 beer bottle found on roof. Let’s keep the drinks in the fridge, not on the freeway.”
In the video, the officer approaches the driver’s-side window of the car, and asks: “Just a breath test – have you consumed any alcohol today?”
“Not this morning. No,” the man responds.
“You haven’t consumed any alcohol?” the cop asks again, to which the man repeated that he hadn’t had anything to drink that day.
“Ok. You’ve left your beer on the roof of your car,” the officer tells him.
To which the driver, who was from Albany in WA’s south, replies: “Oh.”
He then proceeded to blow 0.367 – more than seven times the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit of 0.05.
“I just woke up,” the man tells police, as he’s asked to step out of the vehicle.
“You’re off the chart,” the officer responds, before gesturing at the beer bottle – still balanced perfectly on the vehicle’s roof. “Look.”
The man then claimed the bottle “was there last night” – before being put in the back of the paddy wagon.
TikTok users took to the video’s comments to remark on the “unbelievable” fact that the beer bottle hadn’t fallen off the roof while the man was driving.
“Props to the smooth driving,” one person wrote.
“There’s laws against open alcohol IN the car, not ON the car,” another joked.
“At least he didn’t spill his beer,” a third said.
While someone else commented: “If he can drive without knocking his beer off the roof he’s good to drive.”
Originally published as ‘Off the chart’: RBT discovery stuns police in Western Australia
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