If you’re stupid enough to drive drunk, and you flip your car and are trapped inside, what’s the first logical thing you would do? Call for help? Pray? How about crack another beer. The line between badass and moronic is certainly a fine one here.

A drunk driver trapped in his overturned car opened another can of beer while waiting to be rescued because he had “nothing better to do”, a New Zealand court was told.

Paul Nigel Sneddon, 47, of Palmerston North told the Dominion Post newspaper after Tuesday’s court appearance: “I was lying there, trying to get the doors open but couldn’t. I remember the inside light not working and thinking, it’s not like I’m going to read a book, so I opened another can.”

Sneddon, who told a police officer when found, “I’ve been drinking for four days straight,” had a breath-alcohol reading of 1 191 micrograms per litre of breath – nearly four times the legal limit of 400mcg.

The judge was not lenient, slapped a huge fine on him along with a ten month ban on driving. I’d say that’s pretty light given the hilarious and tragic nature of the crime.