Driving Under the Influence...on a Snowmobile? And yes, technically that would have been better as DUIS, but that would have just looked like the plural of DUI.

COLCHESTER, Vt. -- Police arrested a Colchester man Saturday morning for allegedly driving an unusual vehicle under the influence.

Police said around 1:13 a.m. on Saturday -- one of the hottest days of the year so far -- an officer saw a snowmobile traveling on Porters Point Road in Colchester. The officer followed it for a short distance before the driver left the snowmobile in a yard on Macrae Road and ran off into the woods.

With the help of Police K9 Tazor, Joseph Quigley was tracked down and arrested the 31-year-old him for his fifth DUI offense.

Quigley's blood alcohol content was .183%, more than twice the legal limit.

We get a lot of drunk snowmobilers up by the in-laws place.

Sone of them can be really nice, but the rest are just plain obnoxious.

That's surprising. Not because one group wouldn't overlap the other, but because of the danger involved. My third year of law school, I interned at a firm with several partners. One of the coolest partners handled criminal defense (this was before I ever got into criminal defense work myself).

Just a few years after graduating, I heard the guy had died in a snowmobiling accident. Doing a little research, I found out there are a lot of injuries and a few deaths in the sport/hobby. Makes sense, since you are usually riding around on snow and those machines make a lot of power.

Nice family man, the guy I knew that died doing this. No word that alcohol or anything like that was involved, just an accident.

The other one that always makes me shake my head is DUI on a motorcycle. No DUI makes sense, but operating a motorcycle is far more complex than operating a car, and you have almost no protection around you. Really stupid.

I was on a train about 12 years ago or so up by Syracuse that ran over a snowmobile... bad scene.. killed the guy and his brother.. was about 2am they had been drinking and decided to play chicken with the train.. they had to get a crane out there to lift the train off the snowmobile.. detained us about hours with no heat because they had to detach the engine...