IT probably seemed like harmless fun at the time. 
 
 But for one young man in Perth, riding a motorised esky loaded with alcohol down a busy street has led to trouble with the law. 
 
 Police said they were patrolling the Hilarys area on Friday night when they saw the 22-year-old man riding the esky down the middle of West Coast Drive. 
 
 The Sorrento man has been charged with driving under the influence and will appear in court on a date yet to be set. 
 
 It's not the first time a drunken reveller has been pinged for an esky-pade. 
 
 In March, a drunken 38-year-old man from Scarness, Queensland was charged with drink driving after he was caught riding a motorised esky crammed with beer, cask wine and bourbon pre-mix drinks on a bike path. 
 
 In August 2011, a drunken 23-year-old man was fined $500 and was disqualified from driving for nine months for taking his four-strike "extreme cooler" for a "test drive" on a main road in Noosa Heads, Queensland "for a bit of a giggle". 

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 Image Nine News - Eskypades 1:49 Play video What probably started as a cool idea has landed a 22-year-old WA man on a bizarre drink-driving charge. 
 
 WHAT probably started as a cool idea has landed a 22-year-old WA man on a bizarre drink-driving charge. 
 
 Hillarys police spotted a man riding a motorised esky down the middle of West Coast Drive outside the Sorrento Surf Club, in Perth’s northern suburbs, about 8pm on Friday night. 
 
 Police will allege the esky contained alcohol at the time and charged the rider with driving under the influence (DUI). This means police will allege his blood alcohol reading was 0.15 or above. 
 
 It was reported the esky was bought online for $550. 
 
 Seven News reported the man was on his way to a servce station and didn’t think riding the motorised esky – which can only reach speeds up to 20km/h – on the busy road without any lights would be dangerous. 
 
 It reported the man told them he thought riding the motorised esky would be safer than driving his car. 
 
 A 22-year-old Sorrento man will appear in court at a later date.
– When an Australian man got arrested on DUI charges, we're guessing it didn't help his case that he was driving a stocked beer cooler at the time. The 22-year-old got pulled over Friday night for riding the motorized cooler down the middle of a street, reports Perth Now. He told police, reasonably, that he figured it would be safer than driving a car. The cooler, or "esky" as it is known in Australia, had been rigged to putt along at a top speed of about 12mph thanks to a small motor, wheels, and a steering column. Bizarre yes, but news.com.au recalls at least two similar arrests in recent years, enough to christen the stunts as "esky-pades."