Bet even Nugent and Dean couldn't defend this one.
Tony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6724293.stm
Motorist 'had 25 pints of lager'
A motorist who admitted to police he had drunk up to 25 pints of lager
before getting behind the wheel of his car has been spared a prison term.
Stuart Walker could not stand unaided and was unable to give a
breathalyser test when police found him in a lay-by.
Walker, 60, of Ashbury Close, Cambridge, admitted driving while over the
limit.
He was given a three-month jail term, suspended for two years, and was
banned from driving for five years.
Magistrate Elizabeth Cox told the crane operator: "This is totally
unacceptable and very dangerous behaviour.
"This could have had very serious consequences not just for yourself but
for other members of the public."
Walker, who was also convicted of drink-driving in 1998, had driven his
Peugeot to the Woolpack pub in the village of Sawston and then drove
home after his marathon drinking session on 14 May.
He pulled into a lay-by on the A1301 Sawston bypass to phone his son,
but a passing police car pulled in and officers smelled alcohol on
Walker's breath, the court heard.
A breath test later found he was more than three times over the legal
limit with 131 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the
legal level for driving is 35 micrograms.
Interviewed the following day, Walker told officers he had drunk between
20 and 25 pints and could not remember leaving the pub just after 2200 BST.
But Monica Lentin, mitigating for Walker, said: "The 20 or 25 pints,
there is no way he could have had that and lived in one evening."
After the case, road safety charity Brake said Walker should have been
jailed.
"Walker showed no regard for the lives of other road users and could
quite easily have killed or injured someone when he got behind the wheel
after 20 pints," Brake general manager Sarah Fatica said.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said: "This was a very unusual
incident - one of the highest readings our traffic officers have ever
seen if not the highest."
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Tony
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