I've got a half decent one:
Guy I know (not me) leaves the bar at 2 AM and drives his VW home. Being intoxicated, he somehow gets the car off the side of the road into a ditch. (It was Minnesota in the winter, so I imagine there was some ice to deal with.) He doesn't want to leave the car there all night, and then have to explain how it got there IF someone discovers it. So, he walks the 3/4 mile to his house, and gets some sort of truck at his dad's shop. Big commercial truck (important later). He hooks the car to the truck and is trying to pull it back onto the road when the local PD arrives. They of course, seeing the scene, think it's pretty obvious that he's either drunk or stupid. Give him the breath tests, etc. He blew (I forget the actual number) between the state's legal limit and the limit for driving with his CDL (which he needed to operate said big truck).
Soooo, if he had just gone home and come back later with a non-CDL vehicle (which was one of his choices at the time), he would have been fine. Instead, he opted for the big truck, thinking it ould have the best chance of freeing his car. He got his CDL suspended, his state DL suspended, AND his pilot's license suspended (b/c he had a DUI conviction).
He tooled around town for the next few months on his "chainsaw bicycle". Small enough hp or displacement that it wasn't a regulated vehicle. He rigged a roller to the output shaft of a chainsaw motor (no chain or chain track) and hooked it up so the roller ran along the front tire. It wouldn't get the bike going, but once going it would maintain speed pretty well.
