OTOH, so much the better if they couldn’t bail out his sorry butt...
Right. But he is a VERY IMPORTANT PERSON. While the poor guy with the crappy job who stops by the local pub for a couple after work who deserves to get hammered, gets hammered.
So we have one of two things here. A rookie mistake by someone who doesn’t know you don’t take the wheel until you are too drunk to walk.
Or someone who, even though they “abstain”, finally got caught.