A Stockholm man wanting to stay sober volunteered to serve some of his friend’s one-month drunk-driving sentence. The 51-year-old Swede only managed to last two weeks before the authorities dicovered the deception.

The man said, "I wanted to go to jail to stop myself from drinking for a few weeks. My pal didn’t think it would work. He agreed to let me try. I borrowed his ID card and identified myself as him at the prison." The man has since been charged with perjury and wrongful use of another person’s identity.

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