This is the level of intelligence we are up against:

**Ixion** · 27th January 2006, 11:16

From teh harold today

A Northland man may face jail after being charged with drink driving for the 10th time.

He also faces his 22nd charge of driving while disqualified.

Kawakawa police stopped the 57-year-old on State Highway One at Towai at 6.15pm on Wednesday because he was not wearing a seatbelt.

He was breath tested and blew 670 micrograms (mcg) of alcohol per litre of breath, police say. The legal limit is 400mcg.

The man already has nine drink driving convictions and 21 convictions for driving while disqualified, police said.
{snippy}

Now, I'm not one to get too hot and bothered about someone who's been disqualified sneaking out on the road. And whilst I don't condone drunken driving, I'm not going to get too worked up about it either. But , wouldn't you think that anyone with an ounce of grey matter, getting in the car and thinking "Hm, need to drive home - but I'm half seas over AND disqualified" would have the simple sense to do what he could to NOT draw attention to himself. By, for instance, not putting on the seat belt.

I mean , if you're going to drive without a licence/WOF/rego;disqualified ;outside conditions of licence; etc etc , then common sense says to keep a low profile - especially visible things like seat belts that any passing copper will notice. Sort of like a biker who decided to ride disqualified not bothering with a helmet. Way to go, draw attention to yourself.

What hope is there of someone that stupid being able to comprehend road rules, give way rules etc.

**MSTRS:Me** · 27th January 2006, 11:23

maybe he is just taking the long way to purifying the gene pool..

**dawnrazor** · 27th January 2006, 11:32

pissing in the gene pool more like

**oldrider** · 27th January 2006, 11:32

Could the police members of this forum please explain to me how and why these guys are so prevalent on our roads?
I am not attacking police, I just want to know how this can keep on happening!
A young first time offender here where I live in a small country town, was sent to jail as an example, so how in the name of hell do "these" examples keep popping up in the city? Oops I see it is in small town NZ sorry city people.

I am getting really pissed off with so called "justice" in NZ.

Cheers John.

**MisterD** · 27th January 2006, 11:32

Originally Posted by MSTRS

maybe he is just taking the long way to purifying the gene pool..

Hmmm. More like the human equivalent of an antibiotic-resistant infection...

**Sniper** · 27th January 2006, 11:41

What a walley. Its people like that that should be pushed off a cliff

**JWALKER** · 27th January 2006, 11:43

i agree totally, but there are always some that want to attract the attention of the police

**TLDV8** · 27th January 2006, 11:49

Originally Posted by oldrider

Could the police members of this forum please explain to me how and why these guys are so prevalent on our roads?
I am not attacking police, I just want to know how this can keep on happening!
A young first time offender here where I live in a small country town, was sent to jail as an example, so how in the name of hell do "these" examples keep popping up in the city? Oops I see it is in small town NZ sorry city people.

I am getting really pissed off with so called "justice" in NZ.

Cheers John.

The people that set the sentence need to be accountable? It has nothing to to do with the Police?......Infact who would want to be a cop when some pillock judge may let them walk..........perhaps in this case the offender was to pissed to walk.
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There was that case before christmas where some old !@#$ who had been doing the same thing for 30 odd years was locked up..hopefully the same thing will happen to this git..it would no doubt be a case of,if they took someone else out due to their self centred ignorance they would be crying in their beer!!....and we wonder why there are so many laws.... Derrrr

**Motu** · 27th January 2006, 11:50

Sorta reminds me of a guy who pumped gas at a station I once worked at - He passed a marked cop car on the motorway,and when he got pulled over the cop looked into the back of the uncovered ute and saw the crop he had just harvested lying there.Some people defy the definition of stupid....

My Bro in Law has had countless tickets and discalifications - he reckoned he had an account with LTNZ,whenever he got stopped they just added another one to his bill.He's not a dangerous or drunk driver,just never has a licence,WoF,rego,parks in the wrong place and often speeds...not dangerous speeding,his shit heap cars would never go fast anyway.Finally with a bill in the 10s of thousands they just wiped his slate clean.....Drives a truck these days....um,like do you need a licence for them too?

**Lou Girardin** · 27th January 2006, 11:56

What should be done with him then?
If they jail all these morons the jails will be too full for real criminals. Why hasn't his car been confiscated?

**HenryDorsetCase** · 27th January 2006, 11:58

Originally Posted by Ixion

What hope is there of someone that stupid being able to comprehend road rules, give way rules etc.

not only that, bet he has spread those good genes far and wide, too.

**dawnrazor** · 27th January 2006, 12:00

Originally Posted by oldrider

Could the police members of this forum please explain to me how and why these guys are so prevalent on our roads?
I am not attacking police, I just want to know how this can keep on happening!
A young first time offender here where I live in a small country town, was sent to jail as an example, so how in the name of hell do "these" examples keep popping up in the city? Oops I see it is in small town NZ sorry city people.

I am getting really pissed off with so called "justice" in NZ.

Cheers John.

Why am I suddenly humming the theme tune to "dukes of hazard", "he's just a good old boy, never meaning no harm.....etc"

**pritch** · 27th January 2006, 12:08

A guy I know was an indefinitely disqualified driver with a lengthy list of drink driving, and driving while disquallified convictions, to the extent he'd done time for same.

He'd probably had at least one car seized as well but he would have had a new one within a day or two as he would only pay maybe $150 the vehicle being sans warrant or rego. (And look it!)

He called to see his lawyer one day (pissed) as he was leaving the lawyer told him that he really had to stop driving while disquallified. He called back
"I know." As he laughingly climbed into his car yet again.

Oh, and he recently got his licence back....

Maybe somebody thinks leopards change their spots?

**Pixie** · 27th January 2006, 12:11

Originally Posted by MSTRS

maybe he is just taking the long way to purifying the gene pool..

In the wild it wouldn't be a problem,because by the time these people reached reproductive age,they would have already tried to swing on a leopard's whiskers
or some similar act of stupidity.

Why is eugenics generally viewed as a bad thing?