Too Drunk to Drive? DrunkRescue Will Get You Home Dirt-Cheap

So it's another Saturday night in Laguna Beach ...

Maybe your significant other dumped you ...

Maybe you've just had your 25th annual 21st birthday party ...

Maybe you've been celebrating the Angels' 2012 World Series victory way, way prematurely ...

Maybe you just like the taste of a tall cold one. Or 17 ...

Whatever the reason, you're sloshed to the gills in one of Laguna's many fine drinking and eating establishments, and you've got to get home somehow.

Heeey, you can drive home, right? You're not really that drunk, despite the fact that you're currently picking your teeth up off the floor because that guy punched you in the face for directing five of George Carlin's seven dirty words at his girlfriend.

So ... yeah, you are that drunk. And alone. And you need help.

That's where DrunkRescue comes in, so says this story in Costa Mesa's Daily Pilot. For a fee they claim is cheaper than a cab, one of DrunkRescue's drivers will come out to whatever bar it is that you're threatening to attempt karaoke in and take you home in your own car. One of DrunkRescue's owners—Davlyn Sousa De Freitas or Robert Herron—then comes to pick their driver up.

From the story:

"People are hearing about us with very little advertising, just social networking websites and word of mouth," said Sousa De Freitas, who worked as an investment banker for Wells Fargo before starting his new endeavor.

DrunkRescue employs 15 drivers who situate themselves around popular after-dark areas between midnight and 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. If a customer calls the business' main number needing a ride, the operator relays the message to the driver closest to the customer's location.

Operating only since January, the service has blown up big time, the story says.