NORWAY: Sober & Silly

In Oslo, a motorist who is overly gay when he leaves the bar is liable to be tapped on the shoulder by a policeman and asked down to the police station. Norwegian law provides that the police may give any driver a blood test if they have "fair reason" to suspect that he has had too much akevitt—i.e., more than a concentration of five-tenths of a milligram of alcohol per cubic centimeter in the blood. * Recently, a Norwegian driver who had had a few drinks but wanted to move his car a few feet into a better...

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