Bro, you can get a DUI for riding a fucking horse while drunk. That one makes even less sense. Only the horse should get in trouble, and only if it's drunk.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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Isn't there a comic with that exact premise?
You may be thinking of https://xkcd.com/1720/ but it's not the exact same thing.
Ok I tried and couldn't find it. Instead I found this glorious image.
A lawnmower literally has spinning blades on it! Don't operate while drunk!
You assume you won't hurt anyone, but there's still the chance to. What's to say that the person riding the mower may veer into oncoming traffic causing an accident and harming people that way. Just because you don't initially see something wrong with it doesn't make it ok.
I've seen an amish man get arrested driving drunk in his buggy. I don't know the impound procedures for that one, but I know he didn't make it home that night. You can get a DWI on a bicycle, if they wanted.
This depends on where you are located, but it’s better to be on the safe side and assume yes you will be arrested unless you specifically know otherwise.
I would assume by now most places have corrected this but I remember there being stories of how people would lose their license and then drive to bars on lawn mowers and golf carts etc. as a loophole.
Why will they arrest you? Because that's what cops are for: enforcing the laws of the government.
Why is operating a moving vehicle drunk against the law, even when it's slow? Because even a skateboard can be dangerous to others when not operated with care. Since being drunk reduces your ability to operate anything with care, the more dangerous the moving vehicle, the more justification there is to regulate it under dwi/dui/owi type laws.
A riding mower is already an inherently dangerous machine, when operated sober and in the intended manner. Hundreds of pounds (and even more kilos) of weight, moving at a reasonable speed in your own yard can fuck shit up. Take it on the road where it isn't supposed to be, get drunk, and now you've got the ability to kill someone else.
So, while cops poking their nose into shit and being tools of the state ain't cool, if you're out drunk and doing anything but walking, somebody should intervene. I don't necessarily think that the default for something like a lawn mower should be a criminal offense on par with operating a car or motorcycle, but it definitely merits the person being secured away from said mower and cited with some kind of societal measures to reduce the chances of it happening again.
In other words, if you can't act like a responsible adult, you get put in time out.
Anyone and anything on a street is dangerous for the public.
Yes. And it would an OWI not a DWI