A disabled man has been convicted of drunk driving in his electric wheelchair - and banned from the roads.
Michael Schneider, 20, was seen "weaving all over the road" at 3mph in the early hours of the morning. He told police who pulled him over in his home town of Hagen, Germany that he had been at a carnival.
Schneider told his local court this week: "I didn't know I wasn't allowed to drive my wheelchair while drunk." Disabled since birth, he said a ban would be "devastating" and stop him getting to work in a shoe factory.
But a judge fined him £80 and banned him - and his wheelchair - from the roads for a month.
He told Schneider: "Ignorance is no defence. This is a hard judgment for him but I would have applied the same penalty to a truck driver. In my opinion such a sentence is necessary."
Michael said: "I admit I was sozzled but I don't think I was a menace. If I hit anything the wheelchair would come off worst."
1 comment:
This is a hard judgment for him but I would have applied the same penalty to a truck driver, its not the same, unless you cut that truck drivers legs off. what a joke, no wonder people no longer have any respect for the "just us" system. when you see whats happening in the middle east, i wonder how long the British people will put with a cruel uncaring dictatorship. one nation under cctv comrades. you lost your freedom and civil rights a long time ago, the only way you will get em back is take them back......
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