British man banned for drunk-driving in toy Barbie car

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 20, 2010 | The Sun staff writers

[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.

[myknowledge]

To British cops, even this battery powered toy Barbie jeep is a car.

[GeronL]

Not a headline you see everyday

[max americana]

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

[Othniel]

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.

[JoSixChip]

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

[Berlin_Freeper]

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

[kbennkc]

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 .

[justlurking]

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.

[garyhope]

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

[Molson Labe]

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[Huskrrrr]

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

[Molson Labe]

Barbie Jeep

[Republic_of_Secession.]

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.

[The Cajun]

Yeah right, like we're looking at the damn jeep ;^)

[rdl6989]

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

[Enchante]

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 :^)

[lowbridge]

Yeah right, like we're looking at the damn jeep ;^)

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

[myknowledge]

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