Paul Butoyi: Five-times over drunk driver urinated on his own car
A Dandenong meat factory worker was so plastered he treated his own car as a toilet in full view of PSOs at a nearby station.
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A drunk driver arrested after he had been seen by PSOs urinating on his own vehicle was so plastered he couldn’t perform a breath test, a court has heard.
Paul Butoyi then went to hospital to have his blood taken, revealing an alcohol content of .252.
The 41-year-old meat factory worker pleaded guilty to dangerous and drink driving and acting indecently in public charges at the Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
The court heard at 6pm on November 20 last year a witness saw Butoyi drive his car out of Dandenong servo and onto the wrong side of the road.
He then stopped in the middle of an intersection, causing traffic to have to wait, before driving off and parking in the Dandenong railway station carpark.
PSOs watched as he got out and decided to urinate on the side of his car.
When they came to have a chat with him, he slid under his vehicle and began hitting the car’s underside.
The officers pulled him out and called police.
Butoyi was taken to a cop shop for a breath test, but couldn’t perform the task so was taken to hospital for a blood sample to be provided, which came back with a reading of .252.
He couldn’t be interviewed due to his intoxicated state.
Defence lawyer Sabinus Robi said this was Butoyi’s first time in court and he was very remorseful for his actions.
He said his client had drunk too much due to the “craziness and excitement” of lockdown ending, and has since stopped consuming alcohol.
Magistrate Andrew Halse said his behaviour went against the grain of what the Covid restrictions were trying to achieve.
“One of the main purposes of the lockdown last year was to ensure public safety,” Mr Halse said.
“What you did ‘celebrating’ the end of lockdown was to risk the lives of members of the public and yourself.
“Your driving was quite clearly dangerous and it was lucky there were not more significant adverse consequences, such as someone being killed or seriously injured.”
Butoyi was fined $1500 and disqualified from driving for 24 months.
No conviction was recorded.
