DUI Suspects Say the Strangest Things

CHARLESTON - A Charleston Police officer pulled over the driver of a car after observing it swerving across its lane several times on Sunday, Nov. 6. According to a report, the driver admitted to drinking heavily before the traffic stop. Asked by the officer to rate his level of drunkeness on a scale of 1-10 he exclaimed, "I'm at 30."

He was charged with DUI.

A day earlier, a Charleston Police officer responded to a collision on Savannah Highway in front of Blessed Sacrament School, in which a driver had run into the vehicle in front of him, according to a report. The driver at-fault told the officer he had been looking at the school and not paying attention to the road. He also admitted to consuming alcohol prior to the collision, but in his defense he told the officer, "I'm a good guy, I'm a Citadel graduate."

He was also charged with DUI.

And last Wednesday, Charleston Police officers responded to a report of an erratic driver causing a collision on Orange Grove Road. When officers spoke to the driver of the car, he told them he was driving from his job in Summerville to his home in North Charleston, according to Charleston Police. The officer then asked how the man wound up in West Ashley instead of North Charleston.

"Well I was going home, but the green goblins in other vehicles were waving at me," the driver said, according to the report. "I thought they were going to a party, so I decided to follow them."

"I hallucinated that my friends were in the car and we were racing all the cars around us on the way to a party."

The man told the officer he had consumed "two little bottles" of vodka, and later said he had also taken an Ambien. The officers noted he also had white powder around his mouth and one of his nostrils and they found a plastic baggie of unidentified pills in his car as well.

He too was charged with DUI.