DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- Police charged an eastern Iowa man with drunken
driving after stopping him outside a Dubuque bar, where he was in a
truck beside a small zebra and parrot.
Officers arrested
56-year-old Jerald Reiter on Sunday night in the parking lot of the Dog
House bar. Officers gave him a field sobriety test and charged him with
drunken driving.
Reiter, of Cascade, disputes the arrest, saying
he was about to let a passenger begin driving. He says the zebra and
macaw parrot are pets and like riding in the truck. Sometimes the bar
lets them inside, but they had to stay outside this time because the
business was serving food.
