Drink-driving teen crashes dad's £100k sports car into house

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Harry Bishop has admitted crashing his dad's £100,000 sports car into a house in Sutton Coldfield while twice over the drink drive limit.

The teenager ploughed the Audi R8 into the front of the property causing more than £5,000 worth of damage.

The 19-year-old appeared before Birmingham magistrates and pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while above the alcohol limit, using a motor vehicle without insurance and taking it without the consent of the owner.

The teen took the car after his father had left the keys to the R8 down stairs and had gone to bed, then at about 5am he was awoken by his son who told him ‘I have just crashed your car into a house.”

The Father and son then went back to the location and Police arrived on the scene to carry out a breath test, he was found to have 83 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

After the incident Harold 72, and Janet, 71, who had been asleep less than 2ft from where the car landed, told how the white sports car destroyed the front fence and wall and smashed down their front door and part of the porch.

We were asleep when all of a sudden ‘boom!’ there was a massive bang and I thought a bomb had gone off. We looked out of the window and saw this white car was next to the house sideways on to the pavement.”

– Harold Perry

The case has been sent to Crown Court and Bishop was bailed to appear there on June 26.

Drink-driver ONLY 100 metres from his home decides to take the car - and gets caught!

Drunk driving is always stupid, but if there were levels of stupid this is probably the dumbest example ever!. In Boston, Lincolnshire, a 34-year-old man named Przemyslaw Szulc was arrested for driving under the influence.

Szulc told police that he had been drinking at a barbecue only 100 meters (328 feet) from his house. Rather than walk (which would have taken two minutes), he decided to drive.

Ironically, because the town of Boston is a maze of one-way streets, the drive home was actually a mile and a half long. It was during that mile and a half that police saw him swerving into the kurb and pulled him over for drink driving.

The man was fined £275 and ordered to pay costs of £85, as well as a victim surcharge of £28. He also got a 20 month driving ban.

Defence solicitor Carrie Simson said:

"He admits that what he did was a foolish decision and he has shown remorse. He is a hard working man and luckily will not lose his job after losing his licence but he will have to arrange transport."

Sources: The Lincolnshire Echo

Man dies after drinking 56 shots of alcohol

The owner of  a bar in France is being charged with Manslaughter after being accused of allowing a man known only as Renaud (57), to drink so much that he died.

The Le Starter bar allegedly had a blackboard on the wall of the bar informing people about the world record for drinking shots, this is thought to have given Renaud the idea about  his extreme drinking session.

Witnesses say that Renaud had already had 14 shots before starting his world record attempt, which he kicked off by doing 30 shots within one minute.

Renaud's daughter claims the bar owner whispered ’12 more to go’ into the inebriated mans ear.
 

After 56 shots he went into cardiac arrest and died the next day in hospital.

The prosecuting lawyer Antoine Portal said ‘inciting someone to consume’ is an ‘extremely serious mistake for a bar owner’.

The bar owner has insisted that patrons are ‘responsible for themselves’ while drinking at his establishment.

 

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Turned away from McDonald's for failing a breathalyser test

A 25-year-old teacher has become the first person to be turned away from McDonald’s in Cambridge for failing a breath test. The branch has just signed up to a police scheme to curb alcohol-related violence.

The teacher was in need of some sustenance after a day at the races and a night on the town. So, like many revellers in the small hours, he sought out the burger chain’s famous golden arches – only to be refused entry because he had drunk more than three times the drink-drive limit.

‘I went to McDonald’s at 2am to get some food and security staff said I had to blow into a breathalyser if I wanted to get in,’ he said.

‘They said I could have got in if I was three times the drink-drive limit or under. I was well over that but I couldn’t believe they said no.’ The man, who insists he did not act aggressively in any way, added: ‘How do you get turned away from McDonald’s for being too drunk?

‘I don’t know why anyone would be there at 2am if they hadn’t been drinking.’ His plans for a Big Mac meal thwarted, he went for a snack at a burger van instead. 

 

141 people were arrested for being drunk in Cambridge last year and 263 were arrested for public order offences.

 

McDonald’s said: ‘At the request of Cambridgeshire Police we are taking part in their pilot scheme. A person’s behaviour will determine the likelihood of them being breathalysed and this should have no impact on the majority of customers.’

The police-funded scheme, which began last Friday, is believed to be the first of its kind in the country. A handful of venues are understood to have signed up,

Cambridgeshire Police said the breathalyser kits were not designed to be used as an entry requirement but as a tool to clamp down on drink-related incidents.

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