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#Florida man busted for DUI while riding lawnmower on highway

#Florida man busted for DUI while riding lawnmower on highway

August 11, 2020 | 1:15pm | Updated August 11, 2020 | 1:57pm

A drunken Florida man with three previous DUI convictions was arrested while driving a riding lawnmower in the middle of a highway, authorities said.

Paul Burke, of Fort McCoy, was busted Wednesday on west Highway 316 in Marion County, where he was traveling far slower than the posted 55-mph speed limit, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

“You know you’re in the road, right?” a deputy asks Burke, dashcam video shows.

“Was I?” Burke replies.

“You were,” the deputy tells him before realizing Burke apparently had been imbibing. “How much you have to drink tonight?”

“Eh, a couple,” Burke admits.

“A couple?” the deputy responds. “I think it’s a little more than a couple.”

The deputy reported smelling alcohol on Burke, the Sentinel reports.

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Paul BurkeMarion County Sheriff’s Office

Burke then tells the deputy he isn’t going to lie, admitting that he is heading home on his lawnmower after leaving his residence earlier, video shows.

Burke, who says he has “no driver’s license at all,” proceeds to tell the deputy that field sobriety tests wouldn’t be necessary because he had been drinking before briefly trying to perform the exercises. He then stops, saying he is unable to walk, the footage shows.

“I have had maybe a little too much to drink tonight,” Burke admits before asking the deputy to let him be on his way with a citation.

“Well, can we just give me a ticket and be done with that?” Burke asks, which the deputy declines.

“So I’m going to ask you one more time if you want to do these exercises,” the deputy says.

“No sir, just take me to jail,” Burke replies.

Burke was then taken into custody at the Marion County Jail on a DUI charge, sheriff’s officials said. He was no longer listed in custody as of Tuesday, jail records show.

Prior to last week’s arrest, Burke had been convicted of driving under the influence three times and had his license suspended or revoked seven times for previous DUIs or refusals to submit to a breath test, sheriff’s officials said.

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Paul Burke

Marion County Sheriff’s Office

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Paul Burke

Marion County Sheriff’s Office

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Paul Burke

Marion County Sheriff’s Office

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“Driving a lawnmower in the middle of the road where the speed limit is 55 mph is dangerous and illegal … add being drunk into the mix, it can become fatal,” department officials said on Facebook.

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