Ridiculous? Maybe, but it’s being considered “down under.”

Politicians in Australia are supporting a proposal to require members of parliament (MPs) to take a breath test before voting on any bills.

Several MPs are supporting the proposal after a state parliamentarian resigned his post for pushing a colleague after a Christmas party.

The same MP, Andrew Fraser, was suspended from the New South Wales parliament in 2005 after chasing a minister around the chamber and grabbing him by the shirt before being restrained.

In September, as HRB told you, state police minister Matt Brown was sacked after allegedly dancing in his underpants on a sofa at a drunken post-budget party in his office.

“If you are going to have breathalyzers for people driving cranes, you should have breathalyzers for people writing laws,” Green Party MP John Kaye told The Daily Telegraph.

The Speaker and opposition leader have also supported the idea.

The Telegraph editorialized, “If our politicians are drunk on the job, we’ve a right to know.”

A watchman was caught drinking beer and falling asleep on a British nuclear submarine. The same sub crashed into rocks in the Red Sea last month, but the British Ministry of Defense says the two incidents are unrelated.

The sleepy, drunk watchman incident came to light after newspaper, The Sun, gained access to cell phone footage of an officer warning his crew about “unacceptable” behavior.

The crewman has been removed from the HMS Superb pending an investigation.

The crash in the Red Sea damaged the sub’s sonar equipment and forced it to surface. The Superb’s future is uncertain, but it might have to be scrapped due to the damage it suffered.