Soviet Drinkers Can Have a Cop Drive Them Home
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<i> Reuters</i>
MOSCOW — Had one vodka too many? Call the police.
Traffic cops in the Soviet city of Tselinograd have launched a commercial service for drivers who have had too much to drink.
“Police officers, without the usual moralizing, will arrive and drive you home in your own car,” the Communist Party daily Pravda said Tuesday.
All it takes is a “sufficiently solid sum.”
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