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To the cases of drunken driving on lawn mowers, bicycles and golf carts, add scooters.
Daniel Samplanski, 35, of Milwaukee was charged Tuesday with drunken driving on a three-wheeled electric scooter - in the middle of the Marquette Interchange.
How does one drive a piece of health care equipment onto the ramp from southbound I-43 to eastbound I-794? According to the criminal complaint, Samplanski was too drunk to say. When sheriff's deputies stopped him at 2:24 a.m. Friday, he said the scooter belonged to a neighbor and he had taken it to a bar earlier in the evening. He also admitted drinking a 12-pack of beer.
"I got confused. I'm drunk. What am I doing on the (expletive) freeway? I am trying get off," he told deputies, who recorded the stop on video.
The complaint states Samplanski has at least four prior alcohol-related driving convictions in the past 10 years. If convicted in the scooter outing, he faces up to six years in prison. His blood was drawn at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, but the complaint does not indicate his blood-alcohol concentration.
Daniel Samplanski, 35, of Milwaukee was charged Tuesday with drunken driving on a three-wheeled electric scooter - in the middle of the Marquette Interchange.
How does one drive a piece of health care equipment onto the ramp from southbound I-43 to eastbound I-794? According to the criminal complaint, Samplanski was too drunk to say. When sheriff's deputies stopped him at 2:24 a.m. Friday, he said the scooter belonged to a neighbor and he had taken it to a bar earlier in the evening. He also admitted drinking a 12-pack of beer.
"I got confused. I'm drunk. What am I doing on the (expletive) freeway? I am trying get off," he told deputies, who recorded the stop on video.
The complaint states Samplanski has at least four prior alcohol-related driving convictions in the past 10 years. If convicted in the scooter outing, he faces up to six years in prison. His blood was drawn at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, but the complaint does not indicate his blood-alcohol concentration.
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