A man who drank six glasses of Guinness before deciding to drive to get a takeaway ended up crashing three times and barely made it out of his own road.
James Bove was involved in the triple crash after he had drunk 'six glasses of Guinness', he then slept for a few hours and decided to go out for a drive to get some food because he had none at home.
But the 43-year-old Jaguar Land Rover worker barely made it out of his road in Solihull, crashing his Mercedes into a fence, a cable box and then another car, a court heard.
Boozy Bove eventually thought better of it, abandoning his car and walking back home but not before a neighbor had called the police, Birmingham Live reports.
Cops arrived at Bove’s home to find him with his keys still in his hand, he was breath tested and found to be nearly twice over the limit and was arrested.
At Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Thursday, October 20 he admitted drink-driving.
The court heard he had 'six glasses of Guinness' on Saturday, October 10 before going to sleep around 3pm and waking up between 7-8pm when he went out for a drive.
Prosecutor Navneet Ahluwalia said: "The defendant drove off his drive and hit the fence. He drove off and then collided into an electric box. The defendant continued and collided into a Vauxhall Corsa."
She said a neighbour reported Bove to the police who arrived to find him holding his keys. At the roadside he blew 61 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath which had reduced to 52 microgrammes when he was tested again in custody.
Ms Ahluwalia added: "In interview the defendant has admitted the offence. He struggled to remember the details of the collision. He remembered hitting something.
"He said he left the vehicle because he realised he shouldn't be driving. He said he made a mistake."
Mumtaz Mirza, defending, said: "When he got up he realised there was no food at home. He's a single man so he decided to go and get some food from a takeaway. He doesn't exactly remember but obviously the prosecution suggest there was some incidents."
Bove was fined £583 and ordered to pay a £233 victim surcharge and £135 costs making a total bill of £951. He was disqualified from driving for 16 months.
The Chair of the Bench said: "There were three incidents involving you on that day and your vehicle. The aggravating features are the accidents, the location where residents were and the possibility of injury. The standard of driving was unacceptable."
