A disabled pensioner was pulled over for drink driving by eight policemen and three police cars as he made his way home from the pub on his mobility scooter.
The man was pulled over when he failed to stop after being ‘blue lighted’ by police. Police then took further action which resulted in one car mounting the pavement to block the driver’s path. Only then were police able to seize the vehicles keys.
Eamonn Donohoe, 62 of Chesterfield was travelling at around 4mph on a pavement near his home when police surrounded him, preventing him from completing his journey home. Mr Donohoe, who is disabled due to blocked arteries in his lower legs, was pulled over after spending a pleasant evening at his local pub playing dominoes with friends. He had consumed around six or seven pints before leaving for home.
The pensioner was understandably shaken and somewhat peeved after the incident, he commented “I can’t believe how they treated me – anybody would think that I was a bank robber or a member of Al-Qaeda,” Donohoe told the Daily Mail. The pensioner was kept in police cells for 12 hours, fingerprinted and had his DNA taken.
He continued; “They must have known, like I did, that the rules of the road don’t apply when you’re riding a mobility scooter down the pavement at three and a half miles an hour, but it didn’t seem to matter one jot.”I didn’t stop at first because I wanted to get home, and I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”
The pensioner failed his roadside breath test where he was alleged to have been three times over the limit. He was given a ban from driving which bizarrely means he can continue to drive his mobility scooter as it is not classed as a car.
Recently there have been several cases of unusual drink driving offenses, the most publicised being Welsh rugby star Andy Powell after he was convicted after driving a golf buggy the wrong way down a motorway, in another case a milkman was convicted for being drunk in charge of a milk float.
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