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Drunk driver came to pick up drunk driver

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MALMO, Sweden, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Police in Sweden said a man who drove to the police station to pick up a friend who was arrested for drunk driving also was arrested for the same crime.

Malmo police said the 28-year-old man, who was charged Tuesday with aggravated drunken driving, drove to the police station late at night to pick up his friend, who was arrested earlier in the day on a drunken driving charge, and a guard inside the facility suspected he had been drinking, The Local reported Thursday.

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The guard alerted a nearby police officer, who administered a breath test and determined the man's blood alcohol content was well over the legal limit for driving.

"I didn't feel drunk, but I had been drinking, so it was unnecessary and poorly thought out," the Skanska Dagbladet newspaper quoted the man as saying after the September 2010 incident.

Police said the man had driven the same car his friend was driving at the time of his arrest.

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