I’ll have a $1200 fine with that: KFC fan’s expensive error

A man who was caught unconscious at the wheel at a Brisbane fast food drive through has paid a high price for a feed.

An electrician has been disqualified from driving after he blew three times the limit and collapsed at the wheel at a Acacia Ridge KFC drive through.

If you get the munchies after a long session at the pub, don’t try to drive to your nearest fast food drive through.

That is the hard life lesson learned by a high-paid mining worker who copped a $1200 fine after collapsing at the wheel at an Acacia Ridge KFC on New Year’s Eve.

Yussef Robert Kader Damali, 33, was nabbed by police who noticed he was stopped at the Beaudesert Rd drive through with his windscreen wipers on about 4.30am on December 31, Richlands Magistrates Court was told.

The court Damali, a Bremer State High School graduate who now earns $135,000 for only five months’ work a year as a fly-in, fly-out electrical technician, was fined $1200 for the incident.

A police prosecutor told the court Damali was recorded with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.177, more than three times the legal limit.

The court heard Damali was pulled over in 2012 with a BAC of 0.162 and in 2009 with a BAC of 0.109.

His lawyer, Andy Bazzi, said Damali was deeply remorseful and embarrassed.

He had since completed a QTOP driver education course and had lodged an early guilty plea to one charge of being in charge of a vehicle while under the influence.

Mr Bazzi said Damali, who had an excellent work history, had planned to catch a ride share service home after a drinking session at the nearby Acacia Ridge Hotel.

He had no recollection of how he came to be stopped in the KFC drive through.

Damali was disqualified from driving for 12 months. A conviction was recorded.

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