A Lowestoft man has been jailed after mounting the pavement in his car when five times over the drink drive limit.
Martin Bolton, 59, was jailed for four months after failing a police breath test in Lowestoft on Sunday.
He pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates' Court to drink-driving.
District Judge Nicholas Watson said no drink-driver had previously appeared before him having had such a high level of alcohol in their system.
Judge Watson said the custodial term was due to the "gravity" of the offence, with the police saying that as a driver the amount he had drunk was "ridiculous".
Bolton provided a specimen containing 184 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 ml of breath, the legal limit being 35 microgrammes.
The court heard how the defendant, of North Denes in Lowestoft, was spotted by police driving "incredibly slowly" along Yarmouth Road in the town just before 9.30 pm.
He then went along Jubilee Way where he mounted the kerb and the pedestrian had to leap out of way of his BMW 316.
Prosecutor Nicola Pope, said Bolton had been banned from driving for 30 months in 1998.
In mitigation, Annette Hall said he knew he should not have got into his car and was "mortified" and "ashamed" by his actions.
He has an alcohol problem and had suffered a bereavement, while his marriage had also broken up and he had lost his home, said Ms Hall.
Bolton was also handed a three-year driving ban and ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge.
Afterwards Insp Chris Hinitt, of Norfolk and Suffolk police's roads unit, said the amount he had drunk was "ridiculous".
"In 20 years... that is the most I've ever heard someone being over the limit," he said.
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