Pushing the enevlope

A bloke in an Invercargill court for a defended drink-drive hearing was noticed by the beak to be asleep and turfed out when it was found he was actually under the weather.

The man in question when addressed by the judge said

"I'm not drunk in your court . . . You want to see me drunk in your court?"

After a short adjournment, when it was found near impossible to keep the defendant awake, he was remanded for proceedings at a later date.

As the original charge was for being asleep over a motor scooter on service station forecourt, maybe this bloke does not have a drink problem, but a sleep disorder? Needs a medical report, followed by the usual soft sentence.

As an aside, I note that Stuff is reporting the date of the offence as being the same as the future remand date. Good one Stuff! Copying the Southland Times?