And he would have gotten away with too if it wasn’t for… the guards.
A man who attended a wedding in Fermanagh last month has been disqualified from driving for 14 months and fined €350 after drunkenly driving a golf buggy down a road for four miles before being apprehended by the police.
According to the Fermanagh Herald, Jonathan Coen (24), who has an address in Loughrea in Galway, was caught on the Lough Shore Road in Silverhill, Fermanagh, having taken a buggy from the Lough Erne Resort and driven it towards his hotel in Enniskillen.
Police apprehended Coen at approximately 4.20am on the morning of Saturday, November 7 after responding to reports of the buggy being driven on the road.
Coen, who also had a passenger with him, had made it four miles from Lough Erne resort in the buggy, which was “weaving” when caught by police.
Coen was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and taken to Enniskillen Police Station, where the level of alcohol in his system was found to be twice the legal limit.
When interviewed the following morning, Coen accepted full responsibility for taking the buggy, which he had taken from outside the Lough Erne resort with the keys inside.
Coen’s defence solicitor Barry Lynam said that he was a man of good character and handed in a letter from his employer and a reference from the Gardai in Sligo in Enniskillen Magistrates Court.
District Judge Noel Broderick said that a golf buggy was “in no way fit for the public road, particularly in the hours of darkness” and that Coen, his passenger and others could have been killed if there had been other vehicles on the road at the time.
Coen has been disqualified from driving for 14 months and fined £250 (€346) for drink-driving and fined £100 (€138) for taking the buggy without authority.
