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 Arrested For Refusing Sobriety Test Gets $70,000

Falling asleep at the wheel could be very dangerous, for both the driver and any unfortunate passengers or pedestrians nearby; the degradation of one’s mental state could be comparable to the effects of alcohol, and being tired could even cause you to fail a field sobriety test, should you agree to take it. (USA)

Used by police officers to enforce DUI laws, roadside sobriety tests are oftern used before Breathalyzer tests. These tests judge your balance, physical ability and attention level. Some police officers have demanded such strange “performances” as reciting the alphabet… backwards. Try doing that anyway!. I suspect the cops get a kick out of it, regardless of your mental state.

Knowing your rights can really help you avoid becoming “entertainment”. One man who knew his rights refused to take part in a field sobriety test or any of the officer’s further demands, as the officer began to claim that the man was required to follow his commands by law. This resulted in his unconstitutional arrest, based only on the fact that he had “blood-shot eyes”.

The man in the video has been awarded $70,000 two years on for the false arrest

When the man was taken to jail he was forced to take a blood test which proved he was just exhausted

Please note that commonsense dictates that you should just take a quick nap on the roadside if you are tired

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Clothes That Tells People How Drunk You Are?!

I have to admit when I came across this news story title I was thinking about a much more discreet concept like a t-shirt that changes colours or something.

Image by: ©Younghui Kim

The  "smart clothing" reached a new milestone with the demo of Metamorphosis, which is a prototype capable of reacting according to the quantity of alcohol drunk by the wearer.

The unveiling happened at a hackathon in Seoul, South Korea, the Metamorphosis concept  was developed by IT developers and artists in collaboration led by Younghui Kim. Currently it consists of a shirt for women and a jacket for men.

As the wearer's blood alcohol level rises, the shirt's sleeves lift and inflate accordingly. With the jacket, it's the collar that lifts gradually as the wearer continues to drink. ( I wanted to find a video on you tube so that we could see what "inflating shirt sleeves" looks like as it sounds wierd to me to be honest! alas I could not find anything)

The surprising concept stands out for being both useful and artistic at once. In addition to improving the drinker's awareness of his or her alcohol level, the clothes allow others to determine at a glance just how inebriated their conversation partner is. In this way, the wearer of Metamorphosis clothes clearly displays to others exactly how uninhibited he or she is.

Alcohol Abuse in Pregnancy Could Soon Be a Crime

Widely reported at the minute is this speculation about the fact that drinking might soon become a crime for pregnant women in the UK. This is following an unprecedented court hearing to decide on the right of a child whose mother drank "grossly excessive quantities of alcohol" during pregnancy to receive compensation.

The local authority in the north-west of England, which cannot be named for legal reasons, is seeking to show that the mother of a six-year-old girl who was born with foetal alcohol syndrome committed a crime (under the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861 by drinking during her pregnancy). if the court agrees with the council, "it would set a precedent that could be used in criminal prosecutions of mothers whose babies are born with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder". The British Pregnancy Advisory Service and legal charity Birthrights have applied to address the court on the case. They believe the ruling could undermine women's freedom to make decisions for themselves while pregnant. The organizations are also afraid that it might deter women who need support from seeking help during pregnancy and put health professionals under pressure to report women suspected of drinking to the police.

An earlier tribunal hearing of the same test case ruled that the child was the victim of a crime. Judge Howard Levenson found that there had been "administration of a poison or other destructive or noxious thing, so as thereby to inflict grievous bodily harm". However, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority appealed against this decision and was backed by the upper tribunal of the administrative appeals chamber. It ruled that a crime could not have been committed because the girl was unborn at the time and therefore "not a person". The court of appeal will hear the case later this year.

Foetal alcohol syndrome is a complex condition which includes retarded growth, facial abnormalities and intellectual impairment. Children who display certain psychological aspects of the syndrome – including learning difficulties and an inability to connect emotionally with their peers – but do not have the physical manifestations, are said to suffer from foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.Other factors, including nutritional status, genetic makeup of mother and foetus, age and general health, are believed to play a role in the syndrome. The number of cases of foetal alcohol syndrome has tripled since records were first kept 16 years ago. with 252 diagnoses of the syndrome in England in 2012-13. Experts say that the figures suggest an improved ability to diagnose the condition and a failure to deal with alcohol abuse.

The Department of Health advises that alcohol is to be avoided in pregnancy, while the independent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence advises women to avoid alcohol in the first three months of pregnancy because of the risk of a miscarriage.

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Man that Gets Drunk Eating Bread

Food that man eats turns in to alcohol. He gets hammered on eating bread

What if your body produced its own alcohol, that would be great wouldnt it? Dont be silly some of you are thinking how rediculous an idea is that! Well believe it or not that's what happens when you're a victim of "auto-brewery syndrome" also known as "gut fermentation syndrome".

gut fermentation syndrome in which an excess of yeast trapped in the small intestine creates alcohol that is absorbed directly into the bloodstream. Sadly, the syndrome isn't a 24/7 party, as it causes its suffers to be constantly hungover.

Matthew Hogg who is 34 has had the syndrome for almost 20 years. Every time he eats sugar or carbohydrates, his body converts them into ethanol (pure alcohol), and he ends up either tipsy or hungover (as an example a slice of pizza to him is like doing several shots). Imagine if you ate a hamburger which makes you drunk and then the next day you are nursing a hangover. It makes it extremely hard to hold down a relationship, job or even drive a car.

Matthew was always tired and disoriented as a teenager before he was diagnosed. Once a straight A student and Athlete, he found himself exhausted after few jogs and lost focus during exams. $80,000 is all it took for Hog to be diagnosed with the auto-brewery disorder by a Mexican doctor. He now follows a strict diet to manage his condition.

His chronic fatigue affects him in many ways and it becomes hard to sometimes hold a full time job. He runs the Environmental Illness Resource website that’s about disorders like his for income. He lives with his girlfriend Mandy who is a teacher.

“Stubborn disbelief” from those around him is one of the difficult things Hogg has to deal with. "I'm constantly reading messages from visitors to my website who suffer from the condition, saying their doctor, boss, co-workers, and even friends, family and partners, just don't understand, People think we're just making this condition up."

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