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A man who hitched a ride in the backseat of a police cruiser late Wednesday cracked open a can of Hurricane malt liquor as the officer began to drive, police say.

The officer had found the man stumbling and apparently intoxicated near 17th and A streets shortly before midnight. The man, 38, told the officer he was trying to get to his brother's home a few blocks away, so the officer offered him a safe ride, police spokeswoman Officer Angela Sands said Thursday.

When the officer heard the can crack open in the backseat, the officer told the man to stop, Sands said. Instead, he kept drinking.

"Guess you should have cuffed me," he said, according to police.

The man was cited on suspicion of having an open alcohol container and consuming alcohol in public. And, when no one was home at the address the man gave for his brother, the officer took him to detox.

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