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Swann in drink drive arrest

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
There's probably some somewhere....but in an emergency I'd probably run over the shop
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Don't think I own a screwdriver either actually, unless one of those novelty sets you get in christmas crackers are still lying around.
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
I for one own a huge-ish spanner and a couple of big bolts. Never know when they might come in handy. Keep 'em with me at all times...:ph34r:
 

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Haha, all you boasters. I know all you guys do is close the curtains and use your tools with your hands.
 

four_or_six

Cricketer Of The Year
England cricketer Graeme Swann makes drink-drive claim to court | Mail Online

So its a technical defence he's running and nowt to do with duress of circumstances and the neurotic moggy - wish someone would tell me which defence it is - these days its actually quite tricky for the constabulary to **** these things up
Nah, he'll have one of these massively expensive lawyers that finds a technicality so that he doesn't end up with a driving ban. Flintoff did the same a couple of years ago iirc when he was way over the speed limit and the police sent some paperwork through a day late. Something like that anyway.
 

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
The "popular" technical defence for borderline cases is that the police don't properly explain the statutory option for those who blow under 50 to have blood or urine substituted - always worth taking up because it usually takes ages for the FME to turn up - anyway it can't be that as Swann clearly had that option given to him as he took it up - Thinking about it I suspect they may be challenging the analyst's evidence - difficult to envisage what other witnesses might be involved - Swann would have been given his own part of the sample which he no doubt had analysed independently
 

nick-o

State 12th Man
Personally, when I've had too much to drink and want a screwdriver, I go to a ****tail bar, not Asda.

[gets coat, etc.]
 

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