WINONA, Minn. – An-board collision monitor alerted police to an accident on the edge of the Winona State University campus. Sure enough, at King and Winona streets officers found a wreck – a white Ford Fusion with a front end crumpled by crashing into a campus landscape boulder. Where was the driver? Not around. Half an hour later and 11 blocks away, police found the car’s registered owner, Nicholas John Brynjarsson, 22. He was walking home. Err, stumbling home. This was about 3:50 a.m. Police said Brynjarsson admitted to being intoxicated and crashing into the boulder. He was booked for drunken driving. The boulder was unmoved. The Ford Fusion bore of scars from the impact. Brynjarsson? Not a scratch.
Brynjarsson. “Yup, was me who hit the boulder.”