Talk about announcing your entrance at the bar with a bang. Jacksonville Beach police say William Halford drove a golf cart through the front windows at Mango’s Beach Bar that sits in the heart of it all along the beach party street and apparently where Bill thinks his parking spot is literally inside the bar.
A man crashed a golf cart through the glass front of Mango’s Beach Bar on Sunday night as he was trying to leave after a night of drinking White Claws and Bud Light, according to his arrest report.
William Halford, 45, was trying to back his friend’s golf cart out of a parking space at the bar on First Street near Fifth Avenue North just before 11 p.m., but sent forward instead, according to Jacksonville Beach police.
“I drove it. I was trying to back it out for them,” police quoted Halford as saying.
Ain’t no laws in DUUUUUVAAAALLLLLLL. Look, this is definitely an easy one to get yourself involved in when drunk. You forget to throw it into reverse, then you hammer it and the next thing you know you’re driving through glass. Halford told police he’d been drinking for about 4.5 hours and takes the blame for what he’s done. Looks like this case is cut and dry. Bill gets the DUI and Mango’s gets new glass windows.
A golf cart crashed into the front of Mango’s Beach Bar Sunday night.
Police say 3 people were hit and expected to be okay. The driver was arrested for a DUI. @ActionNewsJax @WOKVNews pic.twitter.com/xyJmyLst6B
— Elizabeth Pace (@PaceAnJax) December 9, 2019
"If you can’t drive, don’t. Get on a bicycle. Be a local."
We talked to a man who was inside Mango's when the golf cart crashed. Hear how he helped stop the driver from getting away NEXT at 5:30 on @ActionNewsJax pic.twitter.com/60bqj41Qw1
— Elizabeth Pace (@PaceAnJax) December 9, 2019
