Inquistir.com - “Beer is my coffee” is one man’s reported defense when he was arrested in Florida for his 9th DUI on Thursday. 58-year-old Phillip P. Jordan was arrested for felony DUI in Marion County after he drove out of a KFC fast food restaurant.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Department discovered that he had seven previous DUI convictions in Georgia and another DUI conviction in Florida. The last was in April 2000.

Deputy Steven Simpson was already at the KFC when an employee reported a drive-up customer in a pickup truck who appeared to be seriously impaired to point of almost falling over. He pulled over the driver, who said that he was picking up the food for a friend.

Jordan then allegedly explained to Simpson that he’d drunk an Icehouse beer for breakfast because beer was his coffee. Oops

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