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Man caught drink-driving on lawnmower


A German man has lost his driver's licence after he was caught drink-driving on a lawnmower.

Reiner S, 46, from Düsseldorf, parked his lawnmower in a pedestrian area after work and went for a drink.

After several glasses of wine, he agreed to move the mower after passers-by complained it was in the way.

The Express newspaper reports he was stopped by police and found to be well above the permitted alcohol level for drivers.

Even though the mower's top speed is less than 4mph, his licence was revoked for three months.

Reiner S appealed, but a judge ruled the mower qualified as a motor vehicle, although he reduced the fine from £280 to £140.


Story filed: 12:23 Friday 17th October 2003
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Don't "drink and walk"

Fri Oct 17, 6:58 AM ET


LONDON (Reuters) - Drink-drive campaigns have been so successful at getting people out of their cars that there has been a record rise in deaths of drunk pedestrians.


The number of pedestrians over the drink-drive limit who were killed in road accidents has leapt by 50 percent since 1989, according to a study carried out by the Transport Research Laboratory.

Young men and women, aged 16 to 34, drink one third more than 10 years ago, with 70 percent of deaths in this group drink related.

The number of women under 30 killed on the roads after drinking heavily has doubled in the past 10 years -- a fact attributed to more women under 30 drinking than ever before.

A separate survey on Friday found women, older people and affluent mid-life singles are drinking more.

"Investment in female and older consumers will create new drinking occasions and new opportunities", said Andrew Russell a consumer analyst at Datamonitor, which carried out the survey.
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Drivers get festive drink warning

"If you are going out and enjoying yourself over Christmas - don't turn your night into a nightmare - leave the car at home, and if you can't use public transport, designate a non-drinking driver. Remember that you could still be over the limit in the morning after a good night out."
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My son was driving home on a Sunday morning after a night out and was stopped and breathylised. He was banned for a year the following Tuesday!:eek!!!!:

His own fault- knew what he was doing. Could have killed somebody.:(

Please, peeps, take care over the holiday.:)
 
I'm so glad for the "designated driver" campaigns. I hear people say it so often now when a group is going out for drinks. "Who's the designated driver, thanks goodness it's not me, poor you."

The designated driver always has the best stories afterwards, too, because they saw it all... while sober. :eek:
 
escargot said:
Drivers get festive drink warning
My son was driving home on a Sunday morning after a night out and was stopped and breathylised. He was banned for a year the following Tuesday!:eek!!!!:
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Good.

The ad campaigns should also emphasis this kind of drunk driving...a "how much is too much" sort of campaign. A large number of people drive back from places they got tremendously drunk in the night before thinking it's ok. and quite a lot of the time, the attitude is, "well, I'm not driving till the morning, I'll have another."

A lesson learned, I hope.
 
I wish ppl would leave out the drinking entirely when driving. How can anyone say what is too much alcohol, when ppl have different tolerance levels for it anyway?
 
Erm, Hook, this is what I had to say about my son's driving ban-

His own fault- knew what he was doing. Could have killed somebody
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Hook Innsmouth said:
Erm, I know, I read your post. What gives?
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The word "good" in your first post could be deemed a little insensitive. Perhaps you might have expanded a little?

I, like most posters (yourself included I'm sure), am glad that Escargot's son was stopped before he hurt himself or others.

As a parent myself, I know the "guilt by association" one feels when one's offspring do something irresponsible or illegal, and as a worker in a caring profession, I'm sure that Escargot feels it particularly deeply.

I'm sure he's learned his lesson Escargot.

Thanks for reminding us or the reckless stupidity of driving after imbibing alcahol, and for illustrating it with your personal experience.
 
Arthur ASCII said:
The word "good" in your first post could be deemed a little insensitive. Perhaps you might have expanded a little?

I, like most posters (yourself included I'm sure), am glad that Escargot's son was stopped before he hurt himself or others.

As a parent myself, I know the "guilt by association" one feels when one's offspring do something irresponsible or illegal, and as a worker in a caring profession, I'm sure that Escargot feels it particularly deeply.

I'm sure he's learned his lesson Escargot.

Thanks for reminding us or the reckless stupidity of driving after imbibing alcahol, and for illustrating it with your personal experience.
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Well in light of the above I think people have let their sensitivity allow them to jump to the wrong conclusions. Sorry if my explanation of why I felt this was "good" wasn't expansive enough to peoples liking, I didn't just say "good" I said why it was good that people could get caught for drinking the night before...not JUST Escargot's son. Nothing personal was meant by my remark, merely wanted to comment on drink drivers.

Having had such actions effect my family directly, I'm sorry if I didn't come across as "sensitive" as people would have liked.

Have a good christmas.
 
Tulip Tree said:
The designated driver always has the best stories afterwards, too, because they saw it all... while sober. :eek:
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Oh yes, I do indeed ... I especially love it when people get to the insulting each other stage, hilarious! :rofl:

I remember many years ago my friend's dad was nicked for driving over the limit when he drove his car 100 yards up the road to drop someone home after a bevvy. My friend was utterly furious that he was done for driving his car the length of the road, and didn't want to listen to reason - such as, what if a child had run across the road in front of him?

Essy, tell him you've left everyone know what he did and hopefully the shame of that will make him think twice ...
 
I think having a legal driving limit of NIL for alcohol, like they do in Finland, would be the best thing. Also a good idea for Jumbo Jet pilots. :rolleyes:

Bill.
 
just new to this, so if i screw it up, forgive me.

i met this girl who swears that you can drive ok when drunk if you cover one eye.

i told her that it's a load of rubbish, because you would also lose some of your depth perception, as well as being blasted!

but, she was having none of it.

anyone else heard this?
 
http://www.bbr.com/US/db/news-item/551?ID=9J21B56HMSM00B8&first_news_F=1

I suppose this isn't really very funny. And yet.

French Vignerons Encourage Drink Driving - 18-Nov-2003

In an effort to counter a Government campaign against drinking and driving, French winemakers are unveiling their own campaign saying that it's okay to have a drink or two before driving."People are so afraid of the police these days that they're not drinking any wine at all," said Pascal Bobillier-Monnot, director of CNAOC, France's national wine producers' association. "There's no question about it. The enforcement effort and the government's rhetoric have led to a drop in wine consumption in France," Bobillier-Monnot said.
"We believe the government has a duty of providing information which it has failed," said Pascal Rousseaux, director of Afivin, an umbrella group for wine producers, distributors, and retailers. He said drivers should be made aware that they can drink "two or three glasses" of wine with their meal and still be capable of driving.

As part of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's efforts to improve France's appalling road safety record, police have increased road checks and the Government has implemented stricter punishments for drunk driving."In case of doubt, the easiest way to be sure you don't break the limit is to refrain from drinking," said Transport Ministry spokeswoman Emmanuelle Dormond
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Where we sometimes live in France - well we're so far into the sticks that there aren't really any cops. Nearly everyone drinks and drives (well I don't). I've got stuck behind quite posh cars drifting from one side of the road to the other and froggy hopping in 1st gear - early afternoon after an obviously very boozy lunch. And late at night you have to be careful for cars coming towards you around corners on the wrong side.

You have to laugh because there isn't any point getting angry. You just learn to kind of watch out for these loonies. And the roads I'm talking about go through mountains and have quite serious drops.

There was a dinner party for the local hunt in our village. Some of the cops from the nearest local Gendarmerie turned up - friends of the hunt. They all drove home completely blotto.

A friend of mine - a scatty artist was stopped and tested. He was way over the limit. They send him on his way with a verbal warning.

Drink driving is endemic in France. Once in Paris, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, we were driving around the square in front of Notre Dame. My idiot best mate, who was driving, stupidly stuck up his finger at a Police car which went to overtake us. He was certainly well over the limit. There were 3 cops in the car. They hassled him seriously and pushed him around about the finger but it didn't even occur to them to test him for alcohol. Amazingly - they all ended up shaking hands and smiling.
 
IIRC there were moves in the Southern parts for France to Remove those long avenues of trees that line a lot of the roads because drunks kept killing themselves on them...

It was easier than stopping them getting drunk and driving...
 
Re: Re: Only in France! -- French Vignerons Encourage Drink

Windwhistler said:
I can see both sides. Honestly, the whole anti-alcohol thing has gotten so far out of hand here in the States that I'm pleased to see others trying not to fall into the same trap.
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So you think it's ok to drink and drive, check here.
 
Literally in this case. But i don;t get how come it's usually the pisshead who walks away, while some poor sod who just happened to be around gets it:

Sex act fatal crash driver jailed

A drink-driver who killed a father and son in a motorway crash was performing a sex act on himself minutes before the collision, a court heard.

Imran Hussain was driving at speeds of up to 120mph minutes before he ploughed into the back of a Fiat Punto carrying the Proctor family, from Wakefield.

Gary Proctor, 47, and son James, 16, died in the smash on the M62 motorway near Rochdale, on 3 August.

Hussain, of Bradford, was jailed for eight years at Manchester Crown Court.

Death threat

The 32-year-old, of Como Avenue, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one count of driving with excess alcohol at a previous hearing.

The court heard that Hussain's erect penis was exposed when motorists came to his aid after the crash.

This man has taken Catherine Proctor's entire family away from her in one fell swoop
Sgt Phil Robinson
Greater Manchester Police

Judge Andrew Blake told him: "At the least it must have been a symptom you were not giving your full attention to driving."

He sentenced him to eight years for each of the two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, to be served concurrently.

Hussain, a car dealer and father-of-four, was also banned from driving for 15 years.

Prosecutor Andrew Nuttall said Hussain had rowed with his wife hours before the crash and left the family home on Como Avenue for a night out with friends in Leeds.

He later stopped at a service station in Leeds in the early hours, where he was described as "staggering and clearly drunk".

When challenged about ripping open a bag of crisps, he told the cashier: "I'll find out where you live and will kill you."
Catherine, Gary and James Procter
The Proctors were on their way to catch a flight to the US

Police examined his mobile phone and discovered that he had called directory inquiries to request the number of an escort agency about 30 minutes before the crash.

Mr Nuttall said he called the agency - which provides female escorts on an hourly basis - but it was closed.

He said: "His attempts to contact the agency and the finding of him with an erect penis out of his trousers indicates that he was sexually excited and clearly handling his penis whilst he was driving and at the time of the collision."

Hussain's erratic driving in his Audi Q7 was reported to police by three groups of concerned motorists minutes before the crash.

Mr Nuttall said that, moments before the collision, the vehicle was seen lane-hopping, before veering across the carriageway and into the back of the Proctors' Fiat Punto.

Several motorists stopped to help, including Christian Downard and his two friends.

Mr Nuttall said the trio went to help Hussain and saw that his penis was out of his trousers. He tried to run away and hurled abuse.

The Proctors had been travelling to Manchester Airport to fly out to Florida for a family holiday.

Mr Proctor's wife, Catherine, aged 44, survived the crash, but suffered serious rib and arm injuries.

'Life shattered'

In a statement released by police, Mrs Proctor said no words could describe the devastation her family felt.

"No-one should ever go through the nightmare I have suffered over the last four months," she said.

"My whole life has been shattered. My hopes and dreams for the future have been taken away from me and the rest of my family. We will never recover from this."

Speaking after the hearing, Sgt Phil Robinson, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "This man has taken Catherine Proctor's entire family away from her in one fell swoop.

"Not only had he got behind the wheel of his car when drunk, but he had driven so dangerously it is actually a wonder that he did not ruin anyone else's life that day."
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There's a scene in Leonard Cohen's novel beautiful losers very like that.
 
i've not read it. there's a bit in Gaiman's American Gods where a character loses control of his car and gets it after the woman that's giving him a blow job accidentally knocks the gearstick! but i've not heard of it with wanking before.

come to think of it, didn't Emps once say he had a friend who used to wank while driving? :shock: :?
 
Well in beautiful losers the character keeps going through increasingly surreal and extreme sexual experiences, the running joke being that they always stop just before he manages to have an orgasm. Anyway, I think the car crashes too early or something. I liked the book but it's ages since I read it - what I remember most is that all the characters are dead apart from the protagonist, and it's quite similar in feel/tone to cohen's first album, but way more smutty.
 
BlackRiverFalls said:
i've not read it. there's a bit in Gaiman's American Gods where a character loses control of his car and gets it after the woman that's giving him a blow job accidentally knocks the gearstick! but i've not heard of it with wanking before.
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Reminds me of the bit in The World According to Garp that will make all male readers cross their legs.
 
The court heard that Hussain's erect penis was exposed when motorists came to his aid after the crash.
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I'd have thought that being in a crash would have had an immediate detumescent effect.

So what, exactly, had he been drinking? :shock:

(And where can I get some...? :madeyes: )
 
In an accident causing severe trauma, a spontaneous erection can be a sign of spinal injury so parameds may check out that area before starting to remove a male casualty from a wrecked vehicle.

I've heard that mistakes can be made, where a pretty young paramed checks out a crash victim who is not injured, just pleased to see her. :lol:
 
Drunk motorcycle instructor fell from bike three times during lesson
Andrew Norfolk

A motorcycle instructor who was so drunk that she repeatedly fell off her bike during a lesson has been banned from driving for three years.

Sandra Kenyon, 46, fell from her bike three times as a pupil from the Ridesafe Motorcycle School attempted to follow her through central Bradford.

A court was told that soon after the start of last month’s lesson, Kenyon dropped her motorcycle and needed help to climb back on. She fell off again as she approached a set of traffic lights.

Her pupil, Philip Hopkins, arrived at a roundabout to discover that he had lost sight of his instructor. Turning back he found Kenyon lying on the ground, surrounded by onlookers, complaining that her leg was hurting.

When police officers arrived, they opened her motorcycle jacket and discovered two French brandy bottles. One was empty and the other was three-quarters full.

Magistrates in Bingley were told that Kenyon had 131 microgrammes (mcg) of alcohol in 100ml of breath — almost four times the legal limit of 35mcg.

The mother of two, from Hipperholme, West Yorkshire, who had worked for the Ridesafe school for nine years and was employed on a subcontractual basis, subsequently lost her job. Kenyon pleaded guilty to riding a motorcycle with excess alcohol. As well as being banned from driving, she was ordered to complete 200 hours of community work and given a two-year supervision order that includes alcohol rehabilitation treatment.

John Parker, the chairman of the bench, told her that she had narrowly avoided a custodial sentence. “It was not only a high reading on the breathalyser test, but you were in a position of trust when the offence took place. It was a busy period and there were lots of other road users in the vicinity,” he said.

Nadine Clough, for the prosecution, told the court that when Kenyon was interviewed by the police she said that she needed help and was suffering from depression.

Christopher Bird, in mitigation, said that she was a competent and popular instructor who was “well regarded by her pupils and her employers” until the offence happened. In a letter to the court, Kenyon said: “I can only apologise to the people I have hurt and embarrassed. I’m truly ashamed for what I have done. Any counselling you impose will be a blessing.”

Roger Stanley, of Ridesafe, said his company had very high standards and that he had been shocked and disgusted to learn of Kenyon’s conduct.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 089639.ece
 
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