HeraldNet: Drunken tractor driver nabbed, police say

ARLINGTON – It’s a story that started with cars, bikes and planes. It ended Thursday when an Arlington man was arrested for allegedly driving a tractor while drunk.
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The whole thing started when a man flagged down a trooper to say he thought someone was driving drunk. He told the trooper he’d helped a man pull his car out of a ditch. About an hour later, he saw the same man with the same car in a different ditch.

Police dispatched a Washington State Patrol airplane to look for the drunken driver and troopers in the air quickly zeroed in on the Kubota tractor, Rudeen said.
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Police think this is what happened:

The man drove his car into a ditch for the second time that morning. He walked home. He got his tractor, and used it to pull the car out of the ditch. After driving his car home, the man hopped on a bicycle and pedaled back to retrieve the tractor.

The man was at the wheel of the tractor, swerving along a country road, when troopers found him, Rudeen said.

Driving a huge piece of farm machinery while drunk is no laughing matter, Rudeen said.

Sadly, there are no pictures, of either the tractor or the very determined drunk. Where’s the dashboard video when you really need one?

(Yes, more Fark…)