Car in water: Drunk, mistook a river for a parking

A man parked his car in a river, mistaking it for an underground parking due to thick fog but above all due to large amounts of alcohol in his body.

The man , Peter Thaler in the small town of Sins, in Switzerland , had mistaken a slipway canal for a parking ramp and had parked at the end of it , leaving the car there and returning by foot to his home. Just that the car had been left not in a parking but in a river.

The next morning, the car attracted the attention of the patrol police with the agents who intervened fearing for an incident. However when they saw that the car was closed and there was no one inside, then they traced the owner.

When the agents arrived at the man’s home, to ask for clarifications, they noted that Thaler did not seem to be clear-headed and then they subjected him to breathanalyzer. Even though many hours had passed , Thaler still was above the legal limits for alcohol ,making to believe that he was heavily drunk when he had parked in the river.

The man has been fined and his license has been seized.

Translated by me from an Italian website