Pienaar nicked for drunk driving

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Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
he won't go to jail lid, he'll just get a driving ban, which for someone with his dough won't really affect him, it's not like he can't afford taxi's and the bigger insurance premiums when he gets his license back.
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Is that what they do over there, your first offense and you lose your license?

I wish they were that tough over here. They don't seem to get tough until somebody ends up dead.
 


i'm in no way condoning what pienaar allegedly did, but just so i can have some perspective to weigh the situation, how stringent are drunk driving laws in the uk?

i'm only asking because in virginia, since i am under 21, if i've just had one beer i can be charged with a dui, even if i show no signs of impairment. obviously driving when you're impaired is a terrible thing to do, but maybe he had just had a couple and was only pulled over for something routine. is there a minimum blood alcohol content he had to blow in order to be charged? if not, i really can't judge him too much for this one slipup.
 
toffeestillidie said:
i'm in no way condoning what pienaar allegedly did, but just so i can have some perspective to weigh the situation, how stringent are drunk driving laws in the uk?

i'm only asking because in virginia, since i am under 21, if i've just had one beer i can be charged with a dui, even if i show no signs of impairment. obviously driving when you're impaired is a terrible thing to do, but maybe he had just had a couple and was only pulled over for something routine. is there a minimum blood alcohol content he had to blow in order to be charged? if not, i really can't judge him too much for this one slipup.
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in your case, you don't drink then.

really, anything over a pint and you could test positive, thats the way I look at it, if you've necked a 2nd pint and got straight in the car then it could give you a pos. reading so not worth chancing.
 
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
I had to have an INTERNATIONAL driving license to drive legally in Australia, i had to get that here, not take a test over there to get it. In N.Z, as a resident i was able to drive on my U.K. license for 1 year before having to take their test or stop driving, if i was on a tourist visa I would have to have an INTERNATIONAL license to allow me to drive.

You seem to have inside knowledge on a lot of things including what i have done, could you shed some insight into what i did on christmas day 1995 please as it's a little hazy.

The international drivers license was a grey card affair obtainable on production of a valid uk license from the RAC or AA.

THIS LOOKS REMARKABLY LIKE IT...
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Correct Reidy and you can only use the international licence for 3 Mths if you have a Resident visa,Then take a test for a your Aussie Licence(y)
 
bobbyrob said:
Correct Reidy and you can only use the international licence for 3 Mths if you have a Resident visa,Then take a test for a your Aussie Licence(y)
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wow, they gave me a year in n.z. then i had to do the written test, i questioned why and the lady said that driving was different there, I asked if she had ever heard of Thelwall viaduct, more cars in an hour than the man south island "highway" has in a year.

* highway being just a normal road like we use every single day, except with a lot less traffic, just another way of getting money from immigrants basically.
 

Had Pienaar phoned up and said I'll give any taxi driver who picks me up £100, there would have been a rank outside his hotel within minutes.
If he's on £50,000 a week, that would have been the equivalent of about 50p for him compared to average wages.
No excuses really.
 
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