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Man loses licence drink driving in pink Barbie car

By Karl Peskett |
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Straight from the “are you serious?” files, a UK man has been banned from driving for three years after being caught drunk behind the wheel of…a toy pink Barbie car.

Paul Hutton, 40, a former RAF aeronautical engineer, had been tinkering with the battery powered toy car, which he found dumped in another suburb. While changing the gearbox with his son, he downed a few drinks, and then couldn’t resist taking it out for a spin.

Quite obviously the urge was strong, because the car has a top speed of 6.4km/h. He was caught twice the legal BAC limit.

“I drove up to the Brooklands and I had to go on the road because there are no pavements “The police pulled up and asked if I was all right”, Mr Hutton told the Colchester Gazette. “I’d had a few drinks but I felt fine. I hadn’t spoken to anyone all day – then I found out I couldn’t talk!”

“You have to be some kind of contortionist to get in and then you can’t get out,” he said, revealing you have to drive with your knees under your chin.

“I was very surprised to get done for drink-driving, but I was a twit to say the least,” he admitted.

With the three year driving ban, Colchester magistrates gave Mr Hutton a 12-month conditional discharge.

  • JEKYL & HYDE

    golf cart,horse,ride-on mower,treadly,it’s all the same.i wonder if one of the conditions of discharge is that he doesn’t frequent those guy-only clubs(he might run into the judge)…

    • Jeff

      Are you referring to a strip club or a gay club?

  • vid_ghost

    nope… people can walk faster then this barbie toy car can go! its not the same as a Golf cart, horse, ride on mower those are all things with power to move and push people over if contact was made those can all hurt others. Especially a lawnmower. this toy couldn’t hurt a child.. that’s why its a toy. those other things are NOT toys! and can hurt if a drunk is operating one.

    Glad he got a 12 month probation but he should have been just let off all together its just a joke really.

  • Carl

    This guy is definitely a fool HOWEVER IMO no common sense was used when dealing with him.

  • Wayne Kerr

    I don’t think a kid’s electric cart counts as a vehicle – it truly is a toy. I mean, he’d be fine if he was riding a skateboard.

  • Nelson

    Here in Australia it’s the same thing, Why?
    Because we copy and follow exactly the same driving rules and political rules that the UK does.

    It’s time we Voted out with the monarchy and get on with things the Australian way.

    Even our stupid speed limit is the same as the UK, funny thing is that UK drivers are considered the worst in Europe. Funny thing is here in Australia we are probably the worst drivers in the western world!

    We even drive on the same side of the Road that they do, we even miss out on the best cars; because the mass production is left handed. So to build a couple of thousands right handed just no worth it, when it is you end up paying a fair bit more.
    These is no reason in being associated to a country like England anymore they have lost their pride and glory. You can’t even put up merry Christmas signs in Manchester any more.

    Get the Queen out of Land for once and for all!

    • Flying High

      Actually a huge number of countries drive on the left. india with 1.2 Billion people and a massive ever more sophisticated market is no small playet

      Here is a list:
      Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda Australia Bahamas Bangladesh Barbados Bermuda Bhutan Bophuthatswana Botswana British Virgin Islands Brunei Cayman Islands Channel Islands Ciskei Cyprus Dominica Falkland Islands Fiji Grenada Guyana Hong Kong India Indonesia Ireland Jamaica Japan Kenya Lesotho Macau Malawi Malaysia Malta Mauritius Montserrat Mozambique Namibia Nepal New Zealand Pakistan Papua New Guinea St. Vincent & Grenadines Seychelles Sikkim Singapore Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka St Kitts & Nevis St. Helena St. Lucia Surinam
      Swaziland Tanzania Thailand Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Uganda United Kingdom
      US Virgin Islands Venda Zambia Zimbabwe

      Btw Australia does things because Australians accept this is the way things are to be done and are simply to laid back to really care more than they do. Consolidated Revenue needs be financed in some way, so why not fine drivers here at any opportunity. I highly doubt that a change to the republic would alter the driving laws as revenue is a key driver to many of the laws in place.

    • Duff

      Amen brother.

  • http://www.sutcliffe.com/blog Michael Sutcliffe

    He may have been ‘disturbing the peace’ or even ‘drunk in a public place’ or whatever, but it has nothing to do with his license. If I get pissed with my mate and push him in a shopping trolley down the road should I lose my drivers license? What about if I ride a skateboard while being dragged along by a model aeroplane?! I don’t think so because I’m not doing the things things my license authorises me to do. I’m just being an idiot. The police should act appropriately in the name of public safety but to give a license ban is just an excessive abuse of power.

  • http://www.sutcliffe.com/blog Michael Sutcliffe

    Even our stupid speed limit is the same as the UK, funny thing is that UK drivers are considered the worst in Europe.

    They’ve got blood alcohol limit of 0.08. We’re more totalitarian than them.

  • Valet Dabess

    i heard this guy got done for dd because he was sleeping in his car with the keys in his pocket

  • Andrew M

    You dont need a licence to drive the thing in the first place, so I dont see how they can penalise him with a suspension.

    Its kinda like suspending his licence for J-walking. The punishment doesnt fit the crime.

    You dont even need a licence for riding some pocket bikes and they would leave this thing for dead

  • Fat Tony

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

    Typical traffic laws of the UK.

  • Tiberius P Cowberry

    The article fails to reveal an important detail that explains the severity of the penalty. Mr. Hutton attempted to evade pursuing police, and led them on a lengthy low speed car chase.

  • maxwell86

    So all you people saying he should’ve got off scott free – would you be feeling the same way when he swerves (albeit quite slowly) into the path of a soccer-mum with kids on board…? alcohol does not belong on roads fullstop.

    • Wayne Kerr

      The soccer mum and her kids would be safe because her massive 3000kg SUV would totally crush the man in a 10kg cart.

      Alcohol or not, he was just a hazard to himself, how is driving at 6km/h in a kids cart any different from walking ?

      I don’t like it when people exaggerate things out of context. Bit like saying “I had 10 drinks and hit a girl”, when really I had 10 sodas and high fived her.

      • maxwell86

        so what happens when the soccer mum swerves to miss this imbecile and lands in the path of a bus…?

        the difference between driving a kids cart and walking is that he was on the road…

        • Wayne Kerr

          With the number of urban cyclists on our roads, she’d have swerved and died many times over.

  • maxwell86

    touche