Pinched While Drunk with Zebra and Parrot

(Dubuque, Iowa) A 55-year-old man, Jerald Reiter, was arrested outside of a Dubuque bar on Sunday night with a pet zebra and a macaw parrot in the front seat of his truck.

Officers charged Jerald Reiter, 55, with OWI. Police reports say officers stopped him in the parking lot of the Dog House Lounge as he drove away in his truck.

According to police, field sobriety tests showed Reiter had a blood alcohol level of .14. The legal limit in Iowa is .08.[…]

On Sunday night, they say they took the zebra and the macaw to the bar because it often lets people bring their animals inside. Reiter says the owner told him they were serving food that night and he couldn’t bring a zebra inside the bar.[…]

At that time he went outside to put the animals in his truck and several people were in the parking lot taking pictures. He believes one of those people called police.

Reiter was booked and released from the Dubuque County Jail.