An inebriated 22-year-old Frenchman tried to resuscitate a rubber dinghy he had mistaken for a drowning person . Officers found the man kneeling by an inflatable boat in a shipyard in Vannes , in Brittany near a string of nightclubs and went to investigate . 'He was underneath a boat , on his knees , trying to resuscitate a rubber dinghy , ' police told Le Télégramme de Brest newspaper . Officers found a man kneeling by an inflatable boat performing CPR on the vessel ( stock picture ) Police took the young Frenchman to prison to sleep off his hangover and recover his senses . The man told officers someone was unconscious inside the vessel . He reportedly told them the man 'is n't moving , does n't reply and must be saved ' . But on closer inspection , officers discovered the man was in fact performing CPR on the inflatable boat itself . To make matters worse , he had already called out firefighters to the scene - an emergency call that the police swiftly cancelled . Police took the young man to prison to sleep off his hangover and recover his senses .
Officers found man by inflatable boat in Vannes , Brittany , and investigated . Comment: But on closer inspection officers found man was performing CPR on boat . To make matters worse , he had already called out firefighters to the scene .