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88-Year-Old Busted For DWI: "I Drink Every Day!"
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Christopher Robbins
Published Apr 18, 2013
Modified Apr 18, 2013
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The 88-year-old man who crashed his Cadillac into a car and 12 stories of scaffolding on Tuesday is surprisingly nonchalant for someone charged with DWI, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and second degree vehicular assault. "What. I had a few drinks," Werner Sonn allegedly told officers when they approached his damaged vehicle. According to the Post, Sonn, pictured here looking like A Man Who Has Lived Nearly Nine Decades What Have You Done? also told police, "I drink every day!"
Sonn is the chairman of the board at Henri Stern Watch Agency, and blew a .154 in his Breathalyzer test. When asked by emergency personnel if he had been drinking and driving, he allegedly responded, "I don't know about that, but I was definitely drinking!" Hilarious. We're guessing that when cops asked him if he was drunk because his eyes were bloodshot, he probably replied, "Your eyes look glazed, have you been eating donuts?"
After spending Tuesday night in jail, Sonn was released until his arraignment on July 23 with a suspended license and an order to seek treatment for alcohol addiction. “He was out with friends. He had one drink," Sonn's 91-year-old wife Vivian said. "That’s all he ever has. I’ve never seen him drunk." Yeah, it's that giant rabbit he pals around with that does all the drinking.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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