Whenever I see these stories about people being banned (or prosecuted) the idiotic mitigating pleas their defence lawyers come out with always make me laugh.
Artur Lobacs allegedly had a row with his girlfriend, shot two red lights in front of an unmarked police car, then reversed aggressively after turning into a dead-end street, wove from side-to-side, and nearly collided with parked cars.
When pulled over, Lobacs was unsteady on his feet and failed the breath test. He was found to be nearly twice the legal limit. He was arrested.
In court, his lawyer said he had argued with his girlfriend and drunk one small glass of whisky.
It must have been one hell of a small glass. Working on the approximation that two pints of beer is the maximum you should drink if you’re driving, that would be equivalent to 4 units. Lobacs was twice the limit, so had consumed 8 units. That means his “small glass” was equivalent to four double whisky measures – or 200mls of the stuff!
That’s nearly half a pint of whisky in his “small glass”.
His lawyer still got paid, no doubt, even though the court didn’t swallow any of it and banned Lobacs for 17 months, and fined him a total of £350.