{"id":18578,"date":"2015-11-02T21:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2015-11-02T21:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:31:02","slug":"darwin-awards-candidate-tries-to-take-driving-test-for-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18578","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Awards Candidate Tries to Take Driving Test for Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that all my \u201cDarwin Awards\u201d posts are my own take on situations and have no connection with any real award. I just like the term, as it describes people who are idiots very appropriately. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> A new candidate for the 2015 Darwin Awards. An <a title=\"20-year-old arrested after man tries to take driving test for a friend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/20yearold-arrested-after-man-takes-driving-test-for-a-friend-a3105006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as yet unnamed 20-year old was arrested at the Barnet Test Centre<\/a> whilst trying to take the test on behalf of a friend.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evolution rollback\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/199;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Evolution rollback\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/devolution.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>The deception was successful until you take into account the fact that he was caught. And that he had no insurance. And that he was \u201cover the prescribed limit\u201d suggesting he was drunk. And that he tested positive for drug-driving (that may have been the positive test they refer to). And that he was in possession of a prohibited lock knife.<\/p>\n<p>His friend is also now a nominee for the 2015 Darwins. I mean, how could anyone be so stupid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that all my \u201cDarwin Awards\u201d posts are my own take on situations and have no connection with any real award. I just like the term, as it describes people who are idiots very appropriately. A new candidate for the 2015 Darwin Awards. An as yet unnamed 20-year old was arrested at the Barnet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,84,99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dvsa-related","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}