Police are trying to figure out how a full-sized bulldozer ended up stuck in Big Otter Creek in Elgin County this weekend.
Enforcement officers for Ontario's Natural Resources Ministry were patrolling the creek for illegal fishing when they came upon something much bigger.
The dozer was leaking fuel, so officers called in the Environment Ministry and Ontario Provincial Police.
On the way to the scene at the end of Jackson Line in Bayham, police came across the owner of the bulldozer, who isn't permitted to drive a motor vehicle, but was driving an ATV in a manner that drew their suspicion.
That is what happens when Zombies fool around, they are not good at practical jokes.
From the London Free Press
Police asked the man to take a breathalyser test, but he refused and was arrested.
OPP Const. Michelle Smith has covered her fair share of impaired driving investigations, but none that involved a bulldozer.
"It's the first time," she said yesterday.
Michael Heinz Hesch, 56, of Bayham, is charged with impaired driving, driving while disqualified and failing to provide a breath sample.
Police haven't laid charges over the bulldozer that ended up in the creek, said Smith, because they' would need to know who operated it.
The bulldozer has been removed from the creek and the Environment Ministry, with help from the Bayham fire department, remained at the scene to clean up the fuel leak.
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