Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe HELSINGOR, Denmark, June 30 (UPI) -- Danish authorities said a drunken elderly man stole a row boat and attempted to row more than two miles home to Sweden. Authorities said the 78-year-old man stole the row boat after discovering he had left all of his money in a bar and had no funds left for ferry passage from Helsingor, Denmark, to Helsingborg, Sweden, Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. Advertisement Danish coast guard officials said they found the man passed out inside the row boat after they received reports of what appeared to be an abandoned dinghy adrift in the strait, which serves as a popular shipping lane. Coast guard officials said the man was given passage on the next ferry back to Sweden after he sobered up.
