Dingy Senior Steal Dinghy
July 3rd, 2008 by GiGi
There was a time when Sweden’s liquor stores were few and far between and had the look of hospital pharmacies. They closed by 6 on weekdays and never opened on weekends. Choice was limited and prices high. Not only that bottles were displayed inside glass cases. Customers took numbers–and waited.
These measures were imposed to discourage the consumption of alcohol in a nation with a tradition of drinking to the point of drunkenness and a history of abuse going back to the miseries of 19th-century industrialization, when cheap liquor led to widespread abuse.
But times have changed forSwedish drinkers as was evidenced recently.
A drunken senior (78) appears to have been a little short on cash to pay for the ferry from the Danish town of Helsingor to Helsingborg in Sweden. He didn’t get to the age of 78 by not using his brains so he decided to steal a dinghy and tried to row back to Sweden across the strait of Oresund, a distance of three miles.
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.
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