Most people are familiar with the concept of the clown car at the circus. It’s a tiny little vehicle packed with a seemingly immeasurable number of brightly clad clowns. This is the type of activity that makes a circus offer counseling for the clown-phobic.
Rarely are clowns associated with golf carts, unless you consider the guys from MTV’s Jackass and the abuses they did to each other and the vehicles during their shows and movies.
However, the authorities in Batavia, New York were called to deal with a report about a clown stealing a golf cart. It turns out, no clowns were involved, but there was a drunk golfer, possiblly clad in some of those hideous Loudmouth pants larger-than-life golfer John Daly wears on the course.
An arrest was made. James R. Straub, 37, of Stoneham, Mass., was hit with charges of failing to take a breathalyzer test and driving while intoxicated.
A golf cart isn’t the most unusual vehicle used in a DWI. There was a horse-powered van incident in Poland and a lawn mower driver on the wrong side of the law in Iowa. Even a stolen ambulance with a patient and paramedics inside was used by a drunk driver.
