This is weird ... (I've actually been in this small upstate NY town, and apparently so has Max Wright, the actor who played the Dad on Alf. I never got stopped for drunk driving though. I did almost fall asleep on the road driving back from it to Framingham because I was so tired from the first week whirlwind of college.)

from the Associated Press ...

Wright, best known as bespectacled bundle of neuroses Willie Tanner, patriarch of ALF's adopted family on the hit 1980s sitcom, has lost driving privileges in New York state following a guilty plea to a drunken-driving charge.

The 60-year-old actor, whose TV credentials include guest stints on Friends, Murphy Brown, Cheers and WKRP in Cincinnati, appeared in a courtroom in the Albany suburb of Valatie Thursday to enter his plea, according to the Hudson Register Star.

Wright, who was sentenced under his given name, George, will not be able to drive in the state for six months. Valatie Village Justice Edward J. Williams also fined the actor nearly $1,200--$750 for the drunken-driving charge, plus a $125 court surcharge and $345 in restitution.

A resident of California, Wright was visiting his adult daughter upstate when he ran afoul of local authorities by running into some mailboxes and a traffic sign. Wright had been trying to mail a letter, but instead wound up wiping out in his Volvo. Police said Wright's blood-alcohol level was 0.22--nearly three times the legal limit.

[well, at least he wasn't doing crack; something the National Enquirer caught him on film doing a few years ago with homeless men he befriended]