The Telegraph reports that Britain's worst driver - 50-year old "mobile DJ" Thomas Feely - has been jailed for five months and banned from driving (yet again...) for an additional 12 months. Here are the numbers: more than 110 pulls (or, "offenses"), with 58 BANS.
John Pickering, magistrates chairman, said this to Feely: "This is undoubtedly the worst driving record any of us on the bench have ever seen. From 1982 onwards you been convicted of 89 offenses. Just a few days before being suspended from driving you were stopped again... You have no compunction about driving while disqualified. This is such an appalling record that custody is inevitable."
And get this: his representative, Lindsey Lobley, claims he was a "victim of poor decision-making." And she goes on. "He accepts that he shouldn't have been driving. He accepts that he makes poor decisions and that his judgment is poor in relation to whether or not he should drive."
Nowadays you can be a victim of poor decision-making? Sorry, I guess I come from a more realistic era; yeah, back when they would call you "stupid and irresponsible" and slap the cuffs and fines on ya.
- By Phil Alex (Photo: Carscoop)
Via: Telegraph
