A builder was caught drinking a pre-mixed Jim Beam bourbon and coke while driving to work. Photo / File
Queenstown police were left shaking their heads after catching a builder drinking a bourbon and coke while driving to work on a notorious stretch of highway.
The 22-year-old was driving from Edendale to Queenstown when he was pulled over at a checkpoint on the Devil's Staircase, near Kingston, at 7.30am
today.
He admitted to having a can of Jim Beam on the floor, which he had half-drunk, Constable Anara Hocking said.
"He said he got thirsty around Kingston and wanted a coke, and the RTD was the closest thing he had.''
The man was breath-tested and was under the legal limit, Constable Hocking said.
