Zamboni Driver Arrested For Driving Drunk

by Jon Azpiri | November 1, 2008 at 11:09 am

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An Ontario woman was charged with impaired driving after operating a Zamboni erratically at a hockey rink in Kingsville, Ont. An off-duty police officer who was there to watch his son's hockey game arrested the woman as she got off the ice resurfacer.

The sergeant observed the 34-year-old driver operating the machine in an erratic manner and missing large portions of the ice surface.

On more than one occasion the Zamboni struck the boards and at one point, the machine was stopped and the woman was seen slumped over the steering wheel.

During the arrest, the officer found a flask of vodka in the woman's pants pocket.

This is the first someone has gotten in trouble while driving a Zamboni, the ice resurfacer named after its creator, Frank J. Zamboni. In 2006, two Idaho men were fired from their jobs at a local ice rink after taking a pair of Zambonis onto the street to pick up food at a Burger King drive-through window.

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