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Drunken man gets directions -- to jail

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BELLMORE, N.Y., April 5 (UPI) -- A drunken man who stopped to ask directions wound up in jail when the people he asked happened to be Nassau County, N.Y., police lieutenants, a report said.

Authorities told Newsday that Joseph Hores, 43, of Levittown, N.Y., was staggering and his speech was slurred when he got out of his car Tuesday.

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The problem was Hores chose a Bellmore, N.Y., building housing the Nassau County Police Highway Patrol to ask for directions, where he encountered two lieutenants reporting for work.

The man was arrested on drunken driving charges, the report said.

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