A half-empty bottle of gin and a bag of Viagra - sounds like what you'd
expect to find if you stumbled into some Lothario's lair. So I imagine
New Zealand police were a bit surprised to find those items in the front
of a van when responding to a driver who had apparently been driving
under the influence and lost consciousness.Witnesses observed the vehicle swerving across the center line a few times before coming to a stop in the middle of the highway. A passing motorist stopped shut off the ignition and found the 61-year-old driver slumped over the wheel. Two other bystanders and dragged the man out of the van and to the police car.
When police searched the van, they discovered the bag of Viagra - minus two pills - and the gin bottle - minus half its contents. The driver, when he came to, claimed he hadn't been drinking - he said he'd been overcome by paint thinner fumes.
To his credit, there was a leaking can of paint thinner - but his blood alcohol level was also two and a half times the legal limit. No word on what his blood level of Viagra was, or what else had been going on in the back of that van.
