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British man banned for drunk-driving in toy Barbie car
The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 20, 2010 | The Sun staff writers

Posted on 04/19/2010 9:46:17 PM PDT by myknowledge

A BRITISH man was banned from driving for three years after getting behind the wheel of a pink toy Barbie car when drunk.

Paul Hutton, 40, leaped into the seat of the tiny electric car, which has a top speed of just over 6km/h, when he was over the UK legal limit, The Sun reports.

But a police patrol car spotted Hutton crammed behind the steering wheel crawling along the road near his home in Essex, southeastern England, and pulled him over.

Hutton admitted being a "complete twit" after he ended up in front of Colchester Magistrates' Court, in Essex, charged with drunk-driving.

(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: barbiejeep; drinkdriving; dui; uk
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To British cops, even this battery powered toy Barbie jeep is a car.

1 posted on 04/19/2010 9:46:17 PM PDT by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge

Not a headline you see everyday


2 posted on 04/19/2010 9:47:51 PM PDT by GeronL (Cargo Cult Liberalism isn't going to work.)
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To: myknowledge

You mean the drunk wasn’t arrested in England for the global warming caused by the “vehicle”?


3 posted on 04/19/2010 9:49:33 PM PDT by max americana
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To: myknowledge
Wow. Good thing they didn't nail him for driving without a helmet, otherwise it'd be 10-20 in the slammer!

Stupid wankers. The fact that he was caught driving a BARBIE CAR is punishment enough for most guys.

4 posted on 04/19/2010 9:51:01 PM PDT by Othniel (Meddlng in human affairs for 1/20th of a millennium.......)
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To: myknowledge

Well, if you can get a DUI on a 10-speed or a horse why not a toy.


5 posted on 04/19/2010 9:59:51 PM PDT by JoSixChip (It's time to embrace the madness! The sooner we default the sooner we can reorganize.)
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To: myknowledge

If he was on the road then he could have been killed if the police did not bring him in.


6 posted on 04/19/2010 10:01:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Next.)
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To: myknowledge
Don't drive you child's car when drunk , teach your daughter to drive your car while you are safely drunk in the back seat . Sometimes it takes two of them , one to push the accelerator and one to steer .
7 posted on 04/19/2010 10:15:54 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: myknowledge
The actual car, after modification:

If you this the article, what apparently got him in trouble is that he ignored the officers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267136/Father-banned-driving-getting-wheel-toy-Barbie-car-drunk.html

He was arrested when he ignored warnings for him to stop and tried to make a very slow getaway.

8 posted on 04/19/2010 10:18:41 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: myknowledge

Thank God it wasn’t one of those dangerous Hello Kitty SUV’s


9 posted on 04/19/2010 10:27:38 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: myknowledge
Barbie Car Pictures, Images and Photos
10 posted on 04/19/2010 10:39:00 PM PDT by Molson Labe
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To: Molson Labe
Barbie car Pictures, Images and Photos
11 posted on 04/19/2010 10:40:56 PM PDT by Molson Labe
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To: myknowledge

Might have been a Smart car. Or as I like to call them...Smart-ass cars.


12 posted on 04/19/2010 10:47:58 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: myknowledge
Barbie Jeep Jeep Barbie Pictures, Images and Photos
13 posted on 04/19/2010 10:48:13 PM PDT by Molson Labe
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Talk about embarrassing for BOTH sides: for the person charged with drunk driving in a toy car & for the genius cop who thinks the toy car is a real car.


14 posted on 04/19/2010 10:52:04 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: Molson Labe
Yeah right, like we're looking at the damn jeep ;^)
15 posted on 04/19/2010 10:59:04 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: Molson Labe

Very nice! Oh the jeep, it’s okay too.


17 posted on 04/19/2010 11:31:29 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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Hutton admitted being a "complete twit"

A reminder that a prohibition on behaving as a "complete twit" could be a nice addition to criminal law....

(j/k, although it would apply nicely to so many liberals it would of course be sooooo easily abused in return :^)
18 posted on 04/20/2010 1:05:46 AM PDT by Enchante (Obama and Brennan think that 20% of terrorists re-joining the battle is just fine with them)
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Yeah right, like we're looking at the damn jeep ;^)

Wait a minute. There's a jeep in the picture?

19 posted on 04/20/2010 1:46:09 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: GeronL

Definitely one we won’t see regularly, but once in a while. That’s why I posted this article on FR.


20 posted on 04/20/2010 4:59:34 AM PDT by myknowledge (B.H. Obama's just a frontman. A frontman for who? The globalist elite, stupid!)
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