Jul07
A teenager has been banned from driving after he drunkenly got behind the wheel of his father’s £1,700 lawn-mower. Joel Maunder, 18, boarded the 15mph vehicle with the intention of visiting some friends, but saw his journey cut short by police. The A-level student had driven about a mile from his family’s £500,000 home in the affluent village of Dinas Powys, in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. His blood-alcohol level was found to be more than twice the legal limit when he was stopped on a Saturday night last month. The sixth-form pupil originally faced prosecution for being in charge of a mechanically-propelled vehicle while unfit – the equivalent of drunkenly riding an electric bicycle.
