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Committing a drink-driving offence might be the last thing on your to-do list if you were on your way to renew your driver’s license. However, this 45- year-old man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after he went to a police station to renew his driver’s license while drunk.

Susumu Moriya, an unemployed resident of Sagamihara City, went into Sagamihara Kita police station just before 9.30 a.m. Thursday to renew his license but could not understand the instructions given to him by an officer on how print out a form via the touch screen computers.

The officer noticed the man’s breath smelled of alcohol and asked him how he came to the station. Moriya said he walked.

Another officer then tried to help but Moriya became out of control and threw his license on the ground.

The officer asked him to go home, and saw Moriya get into a car in a parking lot outside and drive away. He was arrested for drunk driving about 200 meters from the station.

Moriya told police he had been drinking since about 6 a.m. and had consumed two cans of beer and several glasses of shochu. A breath test revealed he had 0.45 milligrams of alcohol in his breath per liter exhaled.

Source: JapanToday

I was wondering why did the police officers even let him drive for about 200 meters before arresting him. Shouldn’t they arrest him once he stepped into the car. They would have losta explaining to do if the drunk dude actually hit someone within that short stretch.