| Usually motorists get pulled over by the Police for | | | | Once the alcohol had worn off I'm sure the reality |
| driving way over the speed limit, but for one man in | | | | struck as the driver now faces a three year driving |
| Colchester, who was caught and arrested for driving | | | | ban after being caught behind the wheel of a toy car |
| way under the speed limit in a toy Barbie car, is now | | | | – imagine having to explain that one to your |
| faced with losing his license for travelling at a shocking | | | | insurance company. According to the Daily Record |
| speed of 4mph. | | | | website, "officers warned the driver not to drive the |
| The Telegraph website has reported that the man in | | | | car when they found him in the road earlier this month, |
| question was "pulled over by police as he drove an | | | | but he ignored them and made a slow getaway". The |
| electric Barbie car, which moves slower than a mobility | | | | man's defence to the charges against him were that |
| scooter and while under the influence of alcohol". This | | | | "he had been drinking while working on the car, but |
| takes drink driving to a whole new level if you ask me! | | | | when he took it out, he didn't realise how drunk he |
| The man from Colchester has admitted to being a | | | | was". |
| "complete twit" and has also said "you have to be a | | | | Chairman of the bench Neil Munson revealed that he |
| contortionist to get in, and then you can't get out". | | | | had "never seen the like of it in 15 years on the bench", |
| Although this is clearly a serious driving offence, you | | | | according to DailyRecord.co.uk. Now the driver has |
| can't but help to see the funny side of it – imagine a | | | | been sentenced and fined £85 he is hoping to get |
| grown man stuck inside a Barbie car that had been | | | | the Barbie car back, after it was confiscated by police |
| ‘pimped' with bigger wheels, travelling at 4mph! | | | | at the scene of the crime. |