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Kyle Ryan Elliott was charged with drunken driving in Morganton, N.C. on Saturday, March 2, 2019. A police report says that Elliott complained that an officer wouldn’t share a bottle of Fireball Whiskey in his patrol car, saying: "You could have shared; I'm already drunk.” (Morganton Department of Public Safety)

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Police say a North Carolina man wasn’t just caught driving drunk — he also complained that an officer wouldn’t share a bottle of liquor.

By Associated Press March 7, 2019