Some people are just beyond words. Jin Su – a learner driver – was so desperate to pass her test that she tried to bribe a driving examiner by handing him nearly £500 in cash. The story is also covered by the Daily Mail.
When he refused, she attacked him.
When Driving Standards Agency examiner Keith Ashcroft refused the the cash and terminated the driving test, Su got angry and attacked him in the street.
She grabbed his wrists and tried to push him back into the car, shouting: “I want the test to continue!” When quizzed after her arrest she said the money was to bring good luck, but later admitted it was a bribe.
She’s been found guilty. But the usual mitigating circumstance – she’s pregnant – was bandied about and so she’s gotten off with 50 hours of unpaid community work and has to pay £100 compensation to the examiner.
I’m surprised she wasn’t handed a test pass as well.
It’s not much of a deterrent, is it? The DSA quite rightly takes abuse of its staff very seriously, but how can it matter if people like Jin Su get away with these paltry punishments?
But the biggest irony is that – as is usual among these idiots who try to cheat their way through life – she could have used the money to pay for a few more lessons and learn to drive properly. She can’t be much of a mother if she is prepared to drive her kids around, and yet is not a good enough driver to pass the test legitimately.