A driver pulled over Sunday by West Shore RCMP tried to take one last sip from the can of beer he was holding before getting out of his pickup truck to talk to an officer.
The 41-year-old man was stopped as police were conducting patrols about 11:50 p.m. on Ocean Boulevard in Colwood.
The man provided a breath sample to a roadside-screening device and had a blood-alcohol reading above the legal limit.
His 2019 Nissan Frontier was impounded for 30 days and he was issued a 90-day driving prohibition.
Police said the case was one of several in a busy three-day period starting last Friday.
Impaired-driving charges were laid in Colwood and one in Langford, and a $698 ticket was given to the driver of a vehicle with no insurance in View Royal.
Two excessive-speeding tickets were issued: one in View Royal that came with a $483 fine for being more than 60 kilometres an hour over the speed limit, and one in Colwood for $368 for being more than 40 km/h over the limit.
Both included a seven-day vehicle impound.
Along with all of that, 17 other tickets were issued for various other traffic offences.
Police said they will be back out checking for driver sobriety over the upcoming long weekend.
