PEI man charged with DUI while on lawnmower

[spaminator]

PEI man charged with DUI while on lawnmower
QMI Agency
First posted: Saturday, November 01, 2014 01:41 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, November 01, 2014 01:49 PM EDT
A man in P.E.I. was charged Friday for driving a ride-on lawnmower while impaired.
Police say they received a call from a resident of the West Covehead area Thursday afternoon informing them that "an intoxicated male was driving a ride-on lawn mower around the community."
Police found him and he was arrested for impaired driving.
They say the 54-year-old provided breath samples over two-and-a-half times the legal limit.
He will appear in court in December.
West Covehead is located in Queens County in the central portion of P.E.I.
PEI man charged with DUI while on lawnmower | Weird | News | Toronto Sun

 

[CDNBear]

There's a clown on our street that does the same thing.

 

[MHz]

Here too, only 'mowers' were called 'Cuda AAR' and other muscle car names and 2 tanks a day a day was a 'slow day'. Highway patrol had 383 interceptor engines. Now lawn-morer man needs swat to pull the plug-wire. Who would want to invade Canada?

 

[SLM]

There's a clown on our street that does the same thing.

Does he at least mow your lawn while he's at it?

 

[grumpydigger]

sounds like George Jones years ago

 

[lone wolf]

There's a clown on our street that does the same thing.

Got one around here too. He can't seem to accept he can get dinged in the middle of his own field for impaired - only because he gets away with it on the highway

 

[MHz]

Got one around here too. He can't seem to accept he can get dinged in the middle of his own field for impaired - only because he gets away with it on the highway

You serious? The acreage owners here won't like that change.
If I supply booze can I get extra coverage to cover them when they get the chainsaw started or fall out of a tree, or both at the same time. If they have to quad in do they have to sign a waiver and bring their own beer? So many questions for the new sleep over rules.

 

[damngrumpy]

Why is it we want everyone punished for everything no matter how trivial
In the same breath we have cops who can steal from the lockup be it drugs
or money or whatever and the first thing that happens is the crown thinks they've
suffered enough in the end after all some spent months on paid leave waiting for
court
I think someone driving anything should be held responsible for their actions yet
we start with this one should be punished harshly and that one should be punished
with less time or fines or both

 

[DaSleeper]

You serious? The acreage owners here won't like that change.
If I supply booze can I get extra coverage to cover them when they get the chainsaw started or fall out of a tree, or both at the same time. If they have to quad in do they have to sign a waiver and bring their own beer? So many questions for the new sleep over rules.

 

[MHz]

From all reports it is still safer than being a reporter, . . . you know, . . . over there.

That would be the look that makes somebody 65 act like they are 30. They also have a credit card that still works, do the math. I would hate to say 3 fatal HA on a long weekend would only make it a sell out next long. What would be the equal to the 'pool boy' in what is essential a house of your own demise. That alone requires a premium be paid to somebody, I prefer it not be me after losing a court case.

I think someone driving anything should be held responsible for their actions yet
we start with this one should be punished harshly and that one should be punished
with less time or fines or both

How about top speed capability be a factor, 12mph and under, $10 and you have to pull your ride home yourself. 120 and over you get to sponsor an impaired driver at a driving facility (injury cases) or a VR simulator where they program you loved ones in as being the potential victim and you drink and drive until you have killed them all due to booze impairment. VR cost about $10/hr, live track, $1,000/hr. degree of impairment, the same. (distracted driving seminars as well as transport rules with NY,NY being the destination is a 3d world. That level is available on medium priced desktops. The one where you (and 5 friends) are the live NHL puck might be in that mysterious black trailer that arrives every Friday night at 7PM and is gone Monday morning at 7AM kind of system.

It would be easy to see that Russia should have plates color coded to the safe condition of the vehicle. The ones where the wheels do fall off should be their version of a town-car.

 

[Ron in Regina]

PEI man charged with DUI while on lawnmower
QMI Agency
First posted: Saturday, November 01, 2014 01:41 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, November 01, 2014 01:49 PM EDT
A man in P.E.I. was charged Friday for driving a ride-on lawnmower while impaired.
Police say they received a call from a resident of the West Covehead area Thursday afternoon informing them that "an intoxicated male was driving a ride-on lawn mower around the community."
Police found him and he was arrested for impaired driving.
They say the 54-year-old provided breath samples over two-and-a-half times the legal limit.
He will appear in court in December.
West Covehead is located in Queens County in the central portion of P.E.I.
PEI man charged with DUI while on lawnmower | Weird | News | Toronto Sun

This is a conundrum. Dude is all pissed up, on his ride-on mower, and
gets a DUI. So he'll get a large fine, & they'll yoink his drivers license,
but will that prevent him from mowing lawns? His own or others? Will
he have to get an Interlock device installed on his mower?

What if this was a Mobility Scooter instead of a ride-on mower?

 

[DaSleeper]

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This is a conundrum. Dude is all pissed up, on his ride-on mower, and
gets a DUI. So he'll get a large fine, & they'll yoink his drivers license,
but will that prevent him from mowing lawns? His own or others? Will
he have to get an Interlock device installed on his mower?

What if this was a Mobility Scooter instead of a ride-on mower?

How about posting when drunk or stoned......?
Example....the post just before yours?

 

[SLM]

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This is a conundrum. Dude is all pissed up, on his ride-on mower, and
gets a DUI. So he'll get a large fine, & they'll yoink his drivers license,
but will that prevent him from mowing lawns? His own or others? Will
he have to get an Interlock device installed on his mower?

What if this was a Mobility Scooter instead of a ride-on mower?

You may be onto something, dude can still also get tanked and operate a push model mower. No lawn may be safe. 8O

Joking aside, if said drunk idiot is on a roadway, then said idiot should get bitch-slapped by the law.

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[Sal]

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This is a conundrum. Dude is all pissed up, on his ride-on mower, and
gets a DUI. So he'll get a large fine, & they'll yoink his drivers license,
but will that prevent him from mowing lawns? His own or others? Will
he have to get an Interlock device installed on his mower?

What if this was a Mobility Scooter instead of a ride-on mower?

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while humorous at first read, I know of a kid who lost a leg due to a riding mower. I don't know whether or not her father was drinking when he ran over her because I don't know the family personally, only the girl's story. She wears a prosthetic and to see her walk you would never know. None the less, he could seriously injure someone. Guess he will need to use a push mower for a while.

 

[Ron in Regina]

That's just it. If they yoink his drivers license for being drunk on a
ride on mower, he wont be able to drive his car....but he will still
be able to drive his ride-on mower as you don't need a drivers
license to operate one....& it might become his primary means
of transportation.

We had a similiar situation here in Regina a few years back but
with a mobility scooter. I've heard of similiar with bicycles as they
are also technically a vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act and yet
you don't need a drivers license to operate one, but you can loose
your drivers license when operating one drunk.

 

[SLM]

That's just it. If they yoink his drivers license for being drunk on a
ride on mower, he wont be able to drive his car....but he will still
be able to drive his ride-on mower as you don't need a drivers
license to operate one....& it might become his primary means
of transportation.

We had a similiar situation here in Regina a few years back but
with a mobility scooter. I've heard of similiar with bicycles as they
are also technically a vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act and yet
you don't need a drivers license to operate one, but you can loose
your drivers license when operating one drunk.

Maybe what we need are moron collars. You know, kind of like the collars for dogs they use with invisible fencing? I'll bet we're 95% there technology wise, we could be preventing a lot of stupid sh*it.

In needs to be done because, thanks to advances in medical science, they just aren't offing themselves in the numbers that have in the past. Lol.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Here's similiar to the O.P. from days gone by here.
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/91755-british-man-banned-drunk-driving.html

 

[Sal]

That's just it. If they yoink his drivers license for being drunk on a
ride on mower, he wont be able to drive his car....but he will still
be able to drive his ride-on mower as you don't need a drivers
license to operate one....& it might become his primary means
of transportation.

We had a similiar situation here in Regina a few years back but
with a mobility scooter. I've heard of similiar with bicycles as they
are also technically a vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act and yet
you don't need a drivers license to operate one, but you can loose
your drivers license when operating one drunk.

what he likely needs is some form of AA and the courts can sentence one to counselling, I don't know how often they do it but I do see your point in the futility of removing the driver's license.

 

[shadowshiv]

Here's similiar to the O.P. from days gone by here.
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/91755-british-man-banned-drunk-driving.html

I think when he sobered up he'd be more worried about what his friends thought of him for getting caught driving a Barbie toy car than getting that ban.