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Gulf Today Report

When the wine is in, the wit is out, it is said. In the case of a resident of Delhi, both the wit and memory were out. The inhabitant, Amit Prakash, wanted to unwind after a hard day at work. So he sat in his car and started drinking. By the time the night was over, he lost his car, laptop, mobile phone and was poorer by Rs18,000 after a stranger joined him for a few drinks.

In that drunken state, Prakash forgot he had his own car. He drove the stranger to a place near a prominent roundabout in the city without realising it was his vehicle. The stranger took advantage of his condition and decamped with the car after having the audacity to tell Prakash to leave the vehicle. Prakash, who was completely sozzled, just did as he was told and took the Metro back home. The full gravity of what transpired hit him only in the morning which led him to lodge a complaint with the police, according to a report in a section of the Indian media.

He was so high that he gave the man at the liquor store Rs20,000 when the price for a bottle was Rs2,000. Unlike the stranger, the shopkeeper did not cash in on his wobbly state and was honest enough to return the surplus cash.