Barstool crash serves up drunk driving charge
CHICAGO — Falling off a barstool can hurt one’s pride, if not more, but an Ohio man got into trouble with the law for crashing his motorized version.
Kile Wygle, 28, hurt his head in the March 4 mishap with a motorized barstool and was charged with drunken driving and driving on a suspended license, police said Tuesday.
While being treated by paramedics, Wygle told an officer he consumed “a lot” of beers - at least 15 - before crashing the barstool at some 20 mph, a police account showed.
Later, Wygle told a local television station he got drunk after, not before, the crash.
“I drank quite a bit after I wrecked because my head hurt so bad. I went in and drank a half a bottle of whiskey,” the Newark man told the NBC outlet in Columbus.
Some people have made a sport of racing barstools equipped with tires, a steering wheel and a small engine, Newark police Sergeant Barry Connell said.
“There are hundreds of people racing these things,” he said. “But they race on closed courses.”
The barstool was towed away.
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