Alcohol tests for Vienna 'Fiaker' drivers after drunk incidentsViennese authorities are getting tough on drinking among drivers of the city's famous horse-carriages after a runaway carriage took three tourists for a wild ride through the capital earlier this month. "Following two recent drink-driving incidents, three teams of police and a number of traffic officials carried out alcohol tests on 13 carriage drivers at various points around the city," a spokeswoman for the local traffic authorities, Henriette Matzenberger, told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . The on-the-spot breathalyser Breathalyser or -lyzer Noun Brit trademark a device for estimating the amount of alcohol in the breath [breath + (an)alyser] breathalyse -lyze vb tests were conducted on Thursday. All of them were negative, said Matzenberger. But the drivers were not amused a·muse tr.v. a·mused, a·mus·ing, a·mus·es 1. To occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion. 2. , particularly because they were conducted in front of their customers. The "Fiaker", or traditional horse-drawn carriage drivers, claim the reputation of one of Vienna's popular tourist attractions Noun 1. tourist attraction - a characteristic that attracts tourists attractive feature, magnet, attractor, attracter, attraction - a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees" is at stake. "The tourists must think we're all dangerous criminals," one driver Herbert Bachl told the mass-circulation daily Oesterreich. On New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. , two horses broke away from their driver and took a 39-year-old tourist and her two children on a wild ride through the Austrian capital. The Fiaker driver was just opening the carriage door Carriage door is a term derived from the existence of carriage houses before the days of the automobile. Carriage houses were a building in which to park one's horse carriage. A carriage door would be the doors of the carriage house. to let his guests out and was thrown to the floor when the horses broke free. He was found to have blood-alcohol levels three times over the limit and has been charged. The driverless horses galloped from Vienna's Third District across a bridge over the Danube into the city's Second District, hitting two cars in the process and breaking the carriage's drawbar draw·bar n. 1. A bar across the rear of a tractor for hitching machinery. 2. A railroad coupler. Noun 1. . While the carriage eventually came to a halt, the horses continued on for a few streets more until being captured. The tourist and her children were uninjured. Carriage drivers are subject to the same alcohol limits as car drivers, spokeswoman Matzenberger said. But drink-driving is difficult to prove because the breathalyser test must be carried out while the carriage is actually in operation. 
|
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion