Thread: Drink Riding

Not long ago a man from Hemmant in Brisbane was arrested and charged on separate occasions over several months with being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle, a bicycle, and a horse and sulky. In the latter case he was passed out at the reins. Each time he was attempting to get home from Fisher's Hotel at Wynnum.

There was another drunk idot story on the newcastle news yesterday

Apparently the local man walked towards the moving train and in his drunken state failed to stop, he fell in between the platform and train, he survived but got his pinky finger deboned

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Yep. I personally know of 1 charged with being in excess of 0.08 on a horse (in days where 0.08 was WA limit). 2 on push bikes (1 excess 0.08 and more recently 1 excess 0.05). These laws are not new.
Failing that they can book you for being under the influence in public or drunk and disorderly and I know a few this has happened to as well because they left their car at the hotel after drinking, started to walk home and the police were waiting outside for them to get in their cars and when they did not were annoyed, so booked them for above.
Also personally know 2 mates that were booked for DUI when they got into their car for a sleep, no intention of driving. I know as we lived in Kambalda and was 55kms to Kalgoorlie for the nightclub we used to do this often as, as apprentices could not afford a night out and a hotel room. Back when apprentices made squat.

Yep the generally conceived impression is that you can not operate a motor vehicle whilst intoxicated, so you think you are doing the right thing and ride your push bike to the pub.....'til the cops get you for "drunk in charge of a push bike" I know of a NT guy who was done for 'drunk in charge of a camel' his arument that the camel knew its way home held very little water with the beak who sentenced him (no pun intended), similarly with horses, those of us who are old enough can remember the baker and the milkman coming around in a horse drawn dray, horse would walk by itself, stopping where required and turning down streets all without direction. BUT try to ride the mongrel home drunk and you in a whole world of hurt

Originally Posted by JDNSW

No word as to what police did with the horse.

Under the new "hoon" laws, they probably had it crushed.

I used to work with a guy, he used to ride his donkey to work, his Donkey would receive an apple and walk home, 20 mins before the end of his shift the donkey would be seen walking through the paddock to our workplace, receive an apple for it's troubles walk him to the pub, again the donkey would return home and come and get him a few hours later for yet another apple.

Amazing sight, he owned an old orchard so apples were in abundance.