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CANBERRA (Reuters) - A drunk driver just 100 yards from Australia's iconic giant monolith once known as Ayers Rock stopped police to ask the way to the 1,100-foot-high rock.

The headlights of the man's car were actually shining on Uluru, which has a 5.8-mile circumference, Northern Territory police said.

The 44-year-old man, whose car was also towing an aluminum boat, has been charged with drunk driving and unlicensed driving.


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Bloody hell, it was me on me holidays, I thought I was towing a caravan.
 
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Back in 1983 the tourist resort was not yet in existence and instead there were about five small hotels surrounding Ayers Rock plus a campsite.

I visited with two friends and went on a pub crawl. Luckily one of us decided he was tired and decided to stay in the Landcruiser to sleep. My mate and I went into several of the pubs and at the last one met a couple of tour guides and got into a drinking competition beer while playing pool (8-ball for our Yankeee friends). They beat us continually as we were pretty drunk. I never noticed what their condition was.

The result.

While sitting in the middle of the other two (it was a SWB) on the way back to the campsite, I felt something like "warm rain" on my face. Then noticed my drinking friend had his head out of the window, adding a "racing stripe" to the left side of the Toyota Short Wheel Base 4WD. Got back to camp and woke up lying on a table in the open at midday the next morning. Razzer Every vehicle in the camp had driven right past us that morning. Roll Eyes

Also met the two tour guides. They had taken their bus to the pub for their drinking, and had managed to crash it off the road near the Rock on their way back to their hotel. Eeker


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