This is the excuse given by the Croatian Catholic Church when they found out about the scandal involving one of their Priests.

Apparently Josip Stefancic, known as "The Sheriff" in his local parish, went on a drunken rampage in downtown Slunj that ended up with him being arrested after he crashed his car into a tree.

Witness reports indicate that Stefancic hit the bottle big time before getting into a argument members of his Parish, beating the crap out of a few of them up and then to top it off, pulling out a rifle and threatened to kill them everyone.

But of course it wasn't all his fault. The Slunj region's bishop, Mile Bogovic, explained;

"Stefancic did not act alone. The wine was with him,"

Croatia's Catholic Priests aren't too happy about the new zero-tolerance drink-driving law either, arguing that they have to imbibe wine as part of their work.

Yeah sure