[Editor's Note: the lounger turns out not to have been a La-Z-Boy brand lounger.]
Providing yet another illustration of the fact that operating just about any type of motorized vehicle while intoxicated counts as driving under the influence, a Minnesota man recently pleaded guilty to DUI by motorized armchair.
First of all, details on the crime. The Deluth News Tribune reports that back in August of 2008, Dennis LeRoy Anderson was driving home in his motorized lounger from the Keyboard Lounge in Proctor, Minnesota when he was blindsided by a parked car. Actually, according to the News Tribune, Anderson claimed he was driving just fine until a woman hopped on, causing him to crash into the parked car.
Anderson's admission to having downed 8 or 9 beers was confirmed by the fact that he blew a reported 0.29 blood alcohol level (more than three times Minnesota's legal limit).
In Minnesota, "motor vehicle" means "every vehicle that is self-propelled and every vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires." It does not include vehicles that move solely by human power, but would include anything powered by an engine -- be it a lawn mower, a recliner, a bar-stool or anything else.
Enough about the crime -- what about the lounger?

