Over the limit: a La-Z-Boy

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorised La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers.

Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal limit, when he crashed into a parked vehicle in August 2008. He was not seriously injured.

Police said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower and had a stereo and cup-holders.

Judge Heather Sweetland ordered 180 days of jail time and two years' probation for Anderson.