{"id":6640,"date":"2011-08-02T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:48:04","slug":"one-small-whisky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6640","title":{"rendered":"One Small Whisky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6642 lazyload\" title=\"Single Whisky\" alt=\"Single Whisky\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/whisky.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/240;\" \/>Whenever I see <span style=\"color: #800000\">these stories about people being banned (or prosecuted) the idiotic mitigating pleas their defence lawyers come out with always make me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In court, his lawyer said he had argued with his girlfriend and drunk <strong><em>one small glass of whisky<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;re driving, that would be equivalent to 4 units. Lobacs was twice the limit, so had consumed 8 units. That means&#160;his &#8220;small glass&#8221; was equivalent to four double whisky measures &#8211; or 200mls of the stuff!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nearly half a pint of whisky in his &#8220;small glass&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer still got paid, no doubt, even though the court didn&#8217;t swallow any of it and banned Lobacs for 17 months, and fined him a total of \u00a3350.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related"],"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\/6640","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=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}