Ant McPartlin and drink driving

[C350Carl]

Seems ITV have a sense of humour. They have replaced the gap from the show with.........

 

[LostKiwi]

Seems ITV have a sense of humour. They have replaced the gap from the show with.........

Very good (even if not true)!

 

[Flyinspanner]

Stupid stupid stupid decision to take the wheel.
Passengers who knowingly allow drunks to take wheel should also be taken to task for abetting, and if they have a licence, it should be loaded with points or also removed for a period.

Ffs, he could easily afford taxis!

Drunks should have to have an alcohol meter interlock (if they get licence back, blow in tube to allow start? - with an adjacent eye scanner- to prove it's you, with the test recorded).

 

[C350Carl]

Very good (even if not true)!

It is true. I heard it and had to check. That’s a screenshot from me checking it.

 

[LostKiwi]

Interesting as our guide say The Voice is on?

 

[C350Carl]

At 2215? Check again.

 

[LostKiwi]

At 2215? Check again.

Doh was looking at the wrong time slot

 

[bembo449]

no different to the Jamie carragher incident in the fact the press were only interested in his actions and not the fact the bloke who was goading him was driving while holding a mobile filming the whole thing with his child in the car ! Obvs getting in a car while drunk is unforgivable and there is no excuse

 

[keefysher]

Are we talking about a pleb here? Someone who hosts some ghastly show on the sh1t pump?

FTFY

 

[Craiglxviii]

no different to the Jamie carragher incident in the fact the press were only interested in his actions and not the fact the bloke who was goading him was driving while holding a mobile filming the whole thing with his child in the car ! Obvs getting in a car while drunk is unforgivable and there is no excuse

Or IIRC the Naseem Hamed incident, where they were reporting all about how he’d made off (on foot) after a full frontal with a Golf, and the poor Golf driver who was permanently disabled afterwards barely got mentioned again.

And that’s why I pay little regard to news media.

 

[Naraic]

no different to the Jamie carragher incident in the fact the press were only interested in his actions and not the fact the bloke who was goading him was driving while holding a mobile filming the whole thing with his child in the car ! Obvs getting in a car while drunk is unforgivable and there is no excuse

The bloke with the camera has to do a driving course...but you are right, they did not mention it.

 

[umblecumbuz]

Refusal of alcohol to the driver should be considered/legally binding to the publican bar staff waiters etc etc.
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I seem to remember, when in Holland last a few years ago, that the law there fully supported any bar tender who refused to serve a customer if he was obviously going to drive. The bar tenders had personal licences to serve alcohol, and could be held accountable, with their licence revoked, if a customer was allowed to get intoxicated and subsequently had an accident on driving away.

If that is still the case - a very good deterrent.

 

[Westheath]

I've been quite "merry" in a lot of countries, told not to drive, stayed over at the bar pub restaurant,
also it seems to be age related as to what's considered taboo and what's acceptable.

Most countries are zero tolerance.

 

[keefysher]

Latest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43492842

He's been charged with DD. A custodial sentence should be given for 2 reasons:
1 To get him dry and sorted out properly, think soap stuck to shower floor, without that holiday camp in the woods (The Priory) get out.
2 To send a message that plebism (celebrity) is not kool, and you aint special.

Unfortunately the hand wringers and bleating hearts have been filling the airwaves with soft soap bollox these past few days


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Back in the day I was the designated driver when on site abroad. One Xmas time in the frozen north of Canada there was a 'Designated driver drinks free' campaign. Each night whilst out we would ask for my alcohol charge to be removed from the bill. The following year the 'offer' was more wordy excluding alcohol from the seasonal offer.

After once 'losing' the car on a particularly hard night, the phrase 'when don't you grin & drive? when you are so ****ed you can't find the car!'

A different time

 

[LostKiwi]

He's been charged with DD. A custodial sentence should be given

Well it would put a whole new slant on "I'm a celebrity get me out of here"

 

[Richard Moakes]

Well it would put a whole new slant on "I'm a celebrity get me out of here"

Saturday Night Take Him Down To The Cells ?

 

[Taffy7hfa]

I like Ant & Dec they can be very funny on I'm a celeb, don't know about SNL as I don't watch, my concern is that he doesn't get off too lightly as it seems to be a cut and dried case of DD and reckless driving, the courts need to make an example of him, I fear that his millions will afford him some protection from the full weight of the law.
His punishment must send out a signal to the masses that he appeals to.

 

[EmilysDad]

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He's been charged with DD. A custodial sentence should be given .....

Would the rest of Joe Public be given a custodial sentence? I'm not condoning his drink driving, but you can't have two sets of rules

 

[A.J.]

Would the rest of Joe Public be given a custodial sentence? I'm not condoning his drink driving, but you can't have two sets of rules

That surely would depend on whether he was a first offender or a multiple offender. The son of the guy I work for went down because of his multiple DD offences. I think it was three He went to Hollesley Bay Open Prison in Woodbridge.

 

[EmilysDad]

That surely would depend on whether he was a first offender or a multiple offender......

Of course it would, And AFAIK it's his first offence. And was he 81milligram per whatever or 5 times over?