Chris Tarrant - Drink Drive

[boyse7en]

WCZ said:

no. in the countryside people drink drive. I'm not saying 10 pints and drive home but 4-5 is extremely common and lots of the pubs would die if people didn't do this as there's not many taxis and no public transport. rarely hear of crashes too and the police aren't bothered. it's more built up areas that cause problems

They do. And they are just as guilty as anyone in a city, and just as crap at driving when drunk. Living in the countryside doesn't somehow make you immune to alcohol's detrimental effects.

I live in the countryside and manage to get home from the pub without driving if I've had a few. Walking home works just fine, or a bicycle, or getting a lift.

[IanCress]

Hatson said:

For me it would be the question of how bitter the "bitter planning feud" was.

As bitter as 10 lemons

[hooblah]

You're sat at the pub, the only way to get there is to drive. You're telling me you would grass someone up for having 2 pints and driving home, after having done exactly the same? Hypocritical much?

And let's face it, 2 pints is nothing. And being famous has nothing to do with this. I've driven pissed before, I don't make a habit of it but I know my limit and what I can get away with.

[Rawwr]

hooblah said:

I've driven pissed before, I don't make a habit of it but I know my limit and what I can get away with.

Good luck with that defence.

[Agent XXX]

One of the old farmers I knew when I lived WAY out in the sticks literally used the hedgerows between the pub and his farm to guide his car ( orig 2 dr Range ROver that he'd owned since new and didn't have a single straight panel on it). That was after several pints of Harvey's and several of the Gold Label Barley Wine.

[TheAngryDog]

While bang to rights, what I want to know is if the member of the public told the Police that CT was driving, how can they prove that he was? A breath test is only proof of being over the limit, not that he drove. 2 miles in a car takes no time at all on a country road. If CT had have gotten home and opened the scotch and had a drink, therefore putting him more over the limit, how can the Police / CPS prove that he was over the limit at the time of driving, of which as far as I know, they didn't observe?

Or am I missing something?

[randlemarcus]

TheAngryDog said:

While bang to rights, what I want to know is if the member of the public told the Police that CT was driving, how can they prove that he was? A breath test is only proof of being over the limit, not that he drove. 2 miles in a car takes no time at all on a country road. If CT had have gotten home and opened the scotch and had a drink, therefore putting him more over the limit, how can the Police / CPS prove that he was over the limit at the time of driving, of which as far as I know, they didn't observe?

Or am I missing something?

Science. Back calculating based on blood samples. Or a quiet word from his solicitor who listened to the five pint story, and advised him to plead guilty.

[Boosted LS1]

He meant, what evidence was there that CT had driven a car.

I heard on the news just now that CT had been stopped driving home but I've no idea if that's accurate.

[TheAngryDog]

Boosted LS1 said:

He meant, what evidence was there that CT had driven a car.

I heard on the news just now that CT had been stopped driving home but I've no idea if that's accurate.

Yep, that is what I meant. I could have a few pints on my way home tonight, get home and my neighbour dob me in for D/D with no evidence what so ever, especially as I will have walked home from work. I have no issue with CT being done for D/D, he is bang to rights, but it is how the conviction came about that concerns me..

[cybersimon]

The BBC have updated their story from this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-427...

Given the 4 brandy and ports, the stumble on the way out and his discussion about his fitness to drive (as reported), I could well have been that public minded citizen.

[bqf]

WCZ said:

no. in the countryside people drink drive. I'm not saying 10 pints and drive home but 4-5 is extremely common and lots of the pubs would die if people didn't do this as there's not many taxis and no public transport. rarely hear of crashes too and the police aren't bothered. it's more built up areas that cause problems

This, 100%, although I'm now going into my bunker, wearing a full suit of armour.

[carinaman]

The oath police officers take when they take public office says something about applying the law equally to all.

[Agent XXX]

randlemarcus said:

Science. Back calculating based on blood samples. Or a quiet word from his solicitor who listened to the five pint story, and advised him to plead guilty.

AKA The 'Hip flask defence' but yes, more to it than came out in court certainly.

[ChilliWhizz]

Where does this expression 'dobbed' or 'dob' come from? I've not heard it before

[Agent XXX]

ChilliWhizz said:

Where does this expression 'dobbed' or 'dob' come from? I've not heard it before

comes from Australian slang


1950s: figurative use of dialect dob ‘put down abruptly’, later ‘throw something at a target’.

[ChilliWhizz]

Agent XXX said:

comes from Australian slang


1950s: figurative use of dialect dob ‘put down abruptly’, later ‘throw something at a target’.

[TheAngryDog]

ChilliWhizz said:

Agent XXX said:

comes from Australian slang


1950s: figurative use of dialect dob ‘put down abruptly’, later ‘throw something at a target’.

Used I guess more in the North than in East Anglia!

[Pericoloso]

ChilliWhizz said:

Where does this expression 'dobbed' or 'dob' come from? I've not heard it before

First time I ever heard it was on Neighbours.

If only CT had been "just good friends " with his.

[Starfighter]

He should have asked for shandy and gone 50:50.

[Jim AK]

Seems he `confused` his story of what he had actually drunk at the pub, was also alleged he stumbled in there as well.

Living as I do in a small village I confirm BiB don`t bother here very often but both the local Fencing Contractor & Builder have a nice pension pot!!

CT got his just desserts imo