Jared Hodgson tells ACT Magistrate’s Coutr he drove drunk after defecating in his pants after a spicy curry
A Canberra panel beater has told a courtroom he had to drive home from dinner drunk after eating a curry so spicy he defecated his pants.
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A drunk driver who led police on a high-speed chase says he got behind the wheel after his friend cooked up a curry so spicy it made him poo his pants.
Jared Keith Hodgson, 30, of Conder in Canberra’s southern suburbs, pleaded guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court on Tuesday to driving unregistered, unlicensed and uninsured, as well as mid-range drunk driving and negligent driving.
When asked by Magistrate Margaret Hunter why he decided to get behind the wheel while drunk, Hodgson, said he went to his friend’s place for dinner, where he was storing his car, only to be served up a spicy curry.
“I defecated myself at her place,” he said.
Hodgson said he did not often eat spicy foods.
Ms Hunter said defecating yourself had nothing to do with the decision to drink drive.
He said he had three beers before dinner and another two during dinner.
Court documents show Hodgson, a panel beater, was driving his Mitsubishi Lancer down Ashley Drive in Gowrie well above the speed limit and in both lanes when his driving caught the attention of a police patrol.
Police hit speeds as high as 130km/h during a brief pursuit, and estimated Hodgson was driving faster still.
Hodgson crashed into a gutter and launched over a traffic island, leaving skidmarks behind him, after going too fast through a roundabout
He stopped for police shortly afterwards, on Ellerston Ave Isabella Plains.
According to court documents: “Police observed the defendant’s eyes were bloodshot and glassy, he was unsteady on his feet, slurring his words, smelt strongly of intoxicated liquor and had defecated himself.”
“Police hold the opinion the defendant was well under the influence of alcohol.”
Hodgson ended up blowing 0.145, nearly three times the legal limit for normal drivers, although he was required to have a zero blood-alcohol reading.
Ms Hunter said: “His behaviour in terms of his driving was clearly a result of his intoxication”.
She said Hodgson was visibly drunk when police pulled him over “and he’d soiled himself”.
Hodgson, she said, would have got his license back on Tuesday had he not been driving drunk.
She convicted him and fined him $1600 and disqualified him from driving for another three months.