Too drunk to drive: Employees push boss’s car home

After a very happy office party held in a restaurant in downtown Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, everyone in attendance drank too much and when it came time to leave were all were too drunk to drive home.

Drunk driving in China is a serious offense, punishable by up to six months in jail in addition to a hefty fine. Boss, Zhang Fei, announced to the group that he was too drunk to drive home, but to his horror everyone before him was as drunk as he was.

Sodden with alcohol and unwilling to leave his car downtown, Zhang was momentarily at a loss as to what to do. His vice president, Huang Weiyun, who was just as drunk as everyone else, but he managed to come up with a workable albeit different solution to safely get cars and people home. Huang suggested that everyone push the president in his car to his home some three miles away. He pointed out that the exercise would help to sober everyone up. All ten workers agreed and with a drunken Zhang at the wheel, the group set off on the 45-minute journey, laughing and singing all the way as they pushed the VW through the city streets.
Technically, they did not break the law because the car’s engine was not running and traffic officers let them pass without penalty. Still, they warned passersby that pushing a car through the city streets when drunk can also be dangerous.

The group took responsibility in their own drunken way. Even if their thinking was muddled, they were trying to do the right thing.


/Weird Asia News/