Auckland, New Zealand - (UPI) - Rhiannon Mabbett said she and her new husband, Jeff, were being driven to a hotel in a friend's car when another vehicle rear-ended them at a traffic light.

"We pulled around the corner, and my mate (the driver) got out of the car and asked the guy where his license was," she said. "The guy was too drunk, and all he could really say was, `I'm a criminal, I'll pay you now."'

She said the man tried to drive off as she phoned the police. "He tried to drive forward -- and ran over my wedding dress, the prat," Mabbett said.

She said the drunken driver started fleeing on foot, and she pursued him while still wearing her full wedding gown. Then he started running, so I started running after him in my wedding dress, up the street," she said.

Mabbett followed the man to a dark alley, where police arrested him.
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LMAO nice!

Go Girl! She wasn't going to let her wedding day be spoilt.

the husband better watch out with a wife like that

The only thing that would have made that MORE ridiculous would have been if the drunk driver would have been on the way to a wedding to.

What baffles me is why her new husband let her go after the guy? Why didn't he? Though it does sound like she's the type of woman who doesn't take crap from anyone..... she probably would have chewed him out if he tried to keep her from chasing the guy.

LOL, something tells me the wedding night is gonna be a little more adventuous than the groom thought it would be.

Bride The Bounty Hunter.

Oh yeah!! The bride is now 'PUMPED UP!!', full of adrenalin. Just caught herself a drunk driver!

The groom's honeymoon night has just got started!

That would've been the funniest thing to see! Woman in wedding dress chasing man up street! People would've been thinking "geez she's not letting him get out of this wedding
". And yeah what was her new husband doing? Is he now her ex after that?