Bar stool crash serves up drunk driving charge Falling off a bar stool can hurt one's pride, if not more, but an Ohio man got into trouble with the law for crashing his motorised version. Kile Wygle, 28, hurt his head in the March 4 mishap with a motorized bar stool and was charged with drunken driving and driving on a suspended licence, police said on Tuesday. While being treated by paramedics, Wygle told an officer he consumed "a lot" of beers. The number of beers was at least 15, before crashing the bar stool at 32km/h, a police account showed. Later, Wygle told a local television station he got drunk after, not before, the crash. "I drank quite a bit after I wrecked because my head hurt so bad. I went in and drank a half a bottle of whiskey," the Newark man told the NBC outlet in Columbus. Some people have made a sport of racing bar stools equipped with tires, a steering wheel and a small engine, Newark police Sergeant Barry Connell said. "There are hundreds of people racing these things," he said. "But they race on closed courses." The bar stool was towed away.