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Strange but true in Italy: tow truck driver loses licence

While this was something funny told to me on Saturday night, on picking up the local paper on Sunday, I saw that it was actually true.
The Centro Valle paper of the Sondrio district reported that in a drink driving blitz in Italy, a tow truck was called to tow away the car of a driver who had just had his licence suspended after a drink drive test.

Only that on the arrival of the tow truck, it was discovered that this driver also had a blood alcohol limit above the permitted level of 0.
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So his licence was revoked too.
What happened after that is anyone’s guess.

Italy’s drink driving laws have caught out many Italian drivers, but this is the first we’ve heard of a tow truck driver losing his licence too.
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