(News.com.au) - A man was horrified to learn after he had walked down the aisle that he was already married - after a drunken holiday romance he could barely remember.

The husband has had to confess in the Family Court that he spent 28 days partying and drinking in Arizona in 1978 on leave from his job as a cook on the oil rigs.

He can remember the “nice” blonde American women he met through a penpal newspaper advertisement - but little more.

“He has no recollection of going through any form of ceremony of marriage with her, or of discussing marriage, or of anything referable to marriage,” said Justice Sally Brown, who annulled the marriage last month. [Drunken Marriage via News.com.au]

A woman charged with killing her son in a drunk-driving accident went to a bar instead of reporting back to jail

The woman was allowed out of jail to attend her son’s funeral, but failed to return when she was required.  Instead the woman was supposedly  a mile from the church in a local bar.

Howard has now been charged with escape in addition to involuntary manslaughter, drunken driving, child endangerment and other charges related to the crash. [Killer Mom via Yahoo]

(ABC) - man found asleep in a motorized wheelchair on a highway in northern Australia was charged with drunk driving, police said Monday.

Officers in a patrol car noticed the man slumped in the stationary chair about 10 a.m. Friday on an exit lane near the tourist city of Cairns, regional traffic Inspector Bob Waters said. Cars were swerving to get around him, Waters said.

The officers breath-tested the 64-year-old man, who registered a blood alcohol reading of 0.301 — more than six times the legal driving limit. He was charged with operating a vehicle while drunk and ordered to report to court on July 7, where he faces a stiff fine if convicted. 

"The vehicles that we normally hear about with drink driving are the family car, the truck, the motorbike," Waters said. "But there are also other classes of vehicles that are subject to drink-driving laws," including horses, bicycles, and motorized wheelchairs.

[DUI Chair via ABC]

A man woke up inside a garbage truck after a night of drinking.  After almost being crushed by the compression mechanism, the man can not recall how he ended up in the back of the truck.

"I’m just glad it turned out the way it did," [the truck driver] said. "We didn’t have a body that was dead. We had a body that was talking."

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