‘Quick-thinking’ drunk Chinese driver poses as chef to evade arrest

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‘Quick-thinking’ drunk Chinese driver poses as chef to evade arrest

Man leaves car, barges into restaurant kitchen, throws away his car key and starts chopping up vegetables

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 05 March, 2015, 7:20pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 05 March, 2015, 7:20pm

The drunk driver's ploy failed to fool the alert traffic police officers. Photo: ifeng.com

A Chinese man who was drink-driving thought he had come up with a fool-proof ploy to evade arrest at a police alcohol checkpoint, but he was found out all the same.

The man, who had taken large amounts of alcohol before he set off for home in his car, stopped his vehicle about 50 metres from the police checkpoint in Jilin province’s Changchun city, Xwh.cn reported. He then hastily left the car and entered a nearby restaurant by the roadside.

Officers at the checkpoint, noticing the man’s strange behaviour, followed him into the restaurant, which was not serving any customers. They found him in the kitchen, hard at work chopping up fresh vegetables.

The restaurant's chef said the driver threw his car key behind the radiator before he got down to work chopping vegetables. Photo: ifeng.com

He refused to produce his ID card when police asked for it, insisting that he was a chef at the restaurant. It was only after he was taken to the police station and found to have exceeded the blood-alcohol limit that he admitted he had been driving while drunk and had tried to escape the alcohol test by posing as the restaurant’s chef.

The real chef at the restaurant later said he and three other workers in the kitchen were shocked when the man barged in all of a sudden.

“He just threw his car key behind the radiator, picked up a knife and started chopping up my vegetables,” the chef said. “We didn’t dare to utter a word because we didn’t know who he was or what he was going to do.”