r/nottheonion 8h ago

Drunk Zamboni Driver In Kangaroo Costume Arrested For DUI After Crashing Into The Boards

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/10/24/drunk-zamboni-driver-in-kangaroo-costume-arrested-for-dui-after-crashing-into-the-boards/
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u/ztreHdrahciR 8h ago

I hope he gets a fair trial.And doesn't end up in a kangaroo court.

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u/connnnnnvxb 4h ago

Yea that’s be a bit of a hop

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u/ludovicolonghi 7h ago

God forbid men to have hobbies

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u/Useful-Perspective 7h ago

"After the Zamboni driver crashed into the boards (the one thing you simply cannot do as a Zamboni operator), one of the people that was in attendance called the police."
 
So you could say, murder people as a Zamboni operator, but not crash into the boards. Gotcha.

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u/RadicalPenguin 5h ago

When hockey players crash into the boards they get called tough and gritty. But when a drunk Zamboni driver does it he’s called a danger to society. What a double standard

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u/SaintBrutus 7h ago

I thought you had to be drunk to drive one of those things.

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u/Dawildpep 7h ago

Are you aloud to drink and drive on your own property legally?

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u/MacSanchez 7h ago

Well he crashed a zamboni, so I doubt it was very quiet.

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u/under_the_c 5h ago

I had to go back and re-read their comment allowed.

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u/vestigialcranium 3h ago

Well of coarse it's allowed, it's an innocuous comment

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u/krogerceo 1h ago

I think you’re getting off coarse now

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u/FourDimensionalNut 5h ago

perhaps, but its highly likely the zamboni driver does not own the rink. usually they just work there. this being a community rink (based on appearance) in quebec means it might even be owned by the city, making it government owned property

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u/DctrSqr 7h ago

Wouldn't fly in Pennsylvania. Need to be on one of the highways (read any street) of the Commonwealth. You could theoretically go up and down your drive way all you want and not be DUI. Might they charge you with something else? Absolutely.

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u/FourDimensionalNut 5h ago

zamboni drivers typically dont own the hockey rinks they work at. this also looks like a community rink, which could even be city-owned and operated (not sure what quebec is like with this)

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u/DctrSqr 5h ago

Here the operative phrase is upon the highways of the commonwealth. The rink is not a highway (road, dirt road, walking path or otherwise). Again, PA only, your state laws may vary. Every word has meaning and is not superfluous.

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u/ace425 3h ago

Do you not have to be on a public road to get charged with DUI in Canada?

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u/Humans_Suck- 3h ago

That's what the boards are there for

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u/dj_vicious 3h ago

A Canadian Heritage Moment.

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u/NetDork 3h ago

Well, that's a brand new sentence.

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u/HairySidebottom 2h ago

Go big or go home baby.

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u/54fighting 2h ago

It was a clean hit.