The distraught man, drifting in his disable craft with a broken tiller near Kalmar off the south coast of Sweden, claimed his wife had drowned after he couldn’t find her on the boat, The Local reports.
Rescuers soon found that the sailor’s wife had never been on the boat and was safe on land.
The boat was towed back to shore, and the drunken man was given a breath test and arrested for boating while intoxicated.
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