Swede dreams

Jul 2 2008

A 78-year-old Swedish man had to be rescued after falling asleep while trying to row home from a drinking session in Denmark.

He had been on a binge in the Danish town of Helsingor but ran out of money for the ferry home so stole a dinghy and tried to row the three miles across the Oresund Strait to Helsingborg.

But he fell asleep half-way and drifted until he was rescued by the coastguard who towed him back to Denmark.