A SCOTTISH reveller was stopped by police for being drunk in charge of a space hopper on a dual-carriageway.

The unidentified man tried to run away from police when he was pulled over as he bounced towards a tunnel on Dundee’s busy ring road.

However, the man was so drunk the police had “no problem” catching him. A spokesman said no formal action had been taken.

And here's some other stupid things people have done recently while drunk...

  • Charles Rush has been jailed by Sunderland Magistrates for repeatedly dialling 999 while drunk and serenading emergency services controllers with Elvis Presley songs on New Year’s Eve.
  • Firefighters in China's Jiangsu Province were called to a block of flats after an inebriated woman got stuck on the clothes hanger dangling outside her fourth-floor window.
  • James Walton, of Virginia, ended up in court after beating up his room-mate who had drawn a penis on his face while he was sleeping off a night on the booze.
  • Three young people spent 48 hours roaming in the dark among skeletons buried under Paris. They thought it was a good idea to explore the city’s famous catacombs after getting drunk but couldn’t find their way out and had to be rescued by police.
  • Drunken mechanic Joao Leite Dos Santos ended up in hospital with painful injuries after he climbed into the monkey enclosure at Sorocaba Zoo in Brazil.
  • Engineering student Yashonandan Kaushik escaped unhurt after getting drunk, scaling a 20ft wall and challenging two tigers to a fight at Gwalior Zoo in India.The Northern Echo:
  • Four students had to be rescued from the roof of Durham Cathedral after climbing up in a drunken dare and being unable to get down.
  • Hotel manager Lee Jezard managed to board an empty plane at Birmingham Airport by crawling through the baggage carousel and then claiming to be the co-pilot. He could remember nothing of his antics when he sobered up.