Schwerin (dpa/mv) - The water police in Schwerin are investigating two men who were caught drunk with a rental houseboat. As a spokesman for the water police said on Friday, the charter boat sailed in wavy lines on the Schwerin Inner Lake on Thursday, including near the boat shed. Passers-by on land and other boaters noticed this so much that the police were alerted several times.
The officials were able to stop the houseboat. In breath alcohol tests, the 34-year-old man at the wheel had a blood alcohol content of 2.98, his acquaintance was "just below", as it was said. Police escorted both of them to a clinic where they could give blood samples and then leave. The men had borrowed the houseboat in the morning but were supposed to return it hours earlier.
The landlord had been missing the five-meter-long houseboat for hours and was "very happy to get his boat back undamaged," according to an official. With 63 square kilometers, Lake Schwerin is the second largest lake in MV. The Paulsdamm with the B104 divides it into an outer and inner lake.
