Michael Camp had wet himself and was found to be three-and-a-half times over the limit when he was pulled over by police.
They had spotted his car weaving down a road in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in November 2015.
He was taken to a police station for a second breath test, but was unsteady on his feet and collapsed while trying four times to blow into an intoximeter machine, meaning he couldn’t give a sample.Cue 'OUTRAGE' at the lenient, ineffectual court system!
District Judge Peter Veits had decided at Lincoln magistrates’ court that his drunken state was a ‘reasonable excuse’ for his failure.
He was allowed to carry on driving because the judge said he had not ‘wilfully’ refused to co-operate.Disgraceful! Outrageous! These soft judges who....
Wait. Hang on. I've seen 'Police Interceptors'. I know what you're supposed to do when you can't get a breath sample.
Rules state that police can request urine or blood samples if the breath test device is not available or is not working correctly or if the driver is medically unable to give a breath test.
It is not known why one was not taken in this case.Hmmm, let me guess. Sheer incompetence?
...an appeal, costing thousands, is now under way.It should be taken out of the wages of the idiots who didn't follow procedure!
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“It should be taken out of the wages of the [police] idiots who didn't follow procedure! "
Exactly. Public sector employees must be personally financially resposible for their failures.
"Let me start, M'Lud, with the very first of a long list of errors by the apprehending orificer. At no point, especially at the initiation of the process did Constable Plod utter that phrase so well know as to identify him as an orificer of the lore. "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello ". As the memories of sitting in the classroom at Hendon decended into the foggy pit of disremembrance, so did the mountain of his errors grow.
No idea about the urine sample (shurely his jeans...?), but doesn't a doctor have to be called to take a blood sample? That used to be the way of things...mind you it's been two decades since I was last drunk and disorderly. If that is still the case and a doctor was not available , might not be entirely the police's fault...?
"Not the fault of the Police?" Perish the thought! What would Melvin say?
"Public sector employees must be personally financially resposible for their failures."
If only...
" As the memories of sitting in the classroom at Hendon decended into the foggy pit of disremembrance, so did the mountain of his errors grow."
Heh!
"...but doesn't a doctor have to be called to take a blood sample? "
Yes, and there's always one on call for such. Or blood can be drawn at hospital.
"Perish the thought! What would Melvin say?"
I call 'em like I see 'em!
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