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The lesson there is of course, next time a copper questions you about getting your "cricket helmet"* on in the car, you can just tell them you "had to get to training" and proceed to take the really long, swervy kind of way to training... mind those garbage bins.
*cricket helmet (verb): To get extremely intoxicated at a TWF Paddo Challenge, necessitating donning protective sports wear for the drive home.
when is round 2 of the paddo challenge?
Plenty of people lose their jobs because they've lost their licence
I'm sure an athlete of his ilk could manage the walk to the WACA from the bus stops on the Terrace if the Red Cat was off.
Plenty of people get extraordinary licenses without media scrutiny too, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.
I make a living helping people get extraordinary Drivers' licences.
In my estimation very few serious traffic offenders deserve them.
Having said that, and not speaking in relation to the cricketer's outrageous behaviour, the laws of this state permit the suspension of licences for offences which sometimes have nothing to do with driving and have no relevance to driving ability.
Until licence suspension is related directly to driving behaviour and nothing else, such suspensions will continue to be treated with contempt and ignored by much of the public, and the never ending spiral of offence, suspension, offence, will continue.
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game Uno.
I would need to bite first
If his job and his contractual obligations meant so much to him, he should have considered them before getting behind the wheel while plastered. He could have quite easily hit a person instead of a bin, then he'd be up for a manslaughter charge or would he get off that too because he needs to play cricket?!
If the cat doesn't stop there, he can wait like all the other people who catch public transport have to or he could walk. Surely as a professional athlete a short walk wouldn't be too strenuous and exhausting for him.