Drunken 78-year-old Swede tries to row home from Denmark
This is why you shouldn’t be binge drinking. A drunken 78 year old Swedish man stole a dinghy after a night out in the small Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back home across the Øresund sea to Sweden, but he fell asleep at the bottom of the dinghy when police found him.
When the man discovered he lacked the necessary funds to pay for the ferry from Helsingor to Helsingborg in Sweden on Saturday (local time), he decided to row the five kilometres across the strait of Oresund that separates the two.
He quickly grew tired and trusting fortune and the currents to see him safely home, took a snooze at the bottom of the boat, where Danish police later found him out at sea, still asleep.
The strait is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Police said the owner of the dinghy had decided not to press charges.
[via ABC news]
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