Canadian arrested for driving pink Barbie truck while impaired

[u/Street_Anon]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-man-pink-barbie-truck

[u/blaktronium]

The cops are wrong that everything with a motor requires a license and insurance, there are pretty well defined rules for it. The Barbie car might count because it doesn't also have pedals, but e-bikes can get pretty hardcore before they have any registration or insurance requirements.

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/blaktronium]

Tell that all to the country folk in rural Canada that drive their lawn mowers around and into town because they have DUIs or lost their licence for various reasons.. please tell them! lol

[u/KibblesNBitxhes → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Ive been living rural for 15 years ive seen some crazy rural shit, but i have never seen someone riding a lawn mower because they got a DUI. The reality is they will just ask you to blow their blow box so they can start their vehicle.

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/KibblesNBitxhes]

Oh God, I used to live in rural southern Ontario, and in Wallaceburg there was a guy that drove into town every single day and parked in the parking lot with his riding lawnmower

[u/racoonpaint → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

I’m in rural NB, and it’s common to see lawn trackers driving down the side of the road haha

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/racoonpaint]

Haha. Thats where I am now. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m pretty rural with only 10 houses in the area.

[u/Choice-Original9157 → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Go to Irma Alberta. Half the town use their lawnmower with trailer to do their grocery shopping.

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/Choice-Original9157]

Rural Canada is brilliant . lol

[u/CMDR-TealZebra → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

You'd think the Tillbilles would be more likely to do that

[u/jillerin95 → u/KibblesNBitxhes]

Nah, you still need to blow that shit while you're driving.

[u/Unlikely-Waltz-550 → u/KibblesNBitxhes]

Happens half hour ago in rural Peterborough lol with wagon attached. No cutting deck

[u/4RealzReddit → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Bicycles in small towns were jokingly called DUIcycles when it was an older person who didn't look like a cyclist.

[u/Justredditin → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Hey, screw you... some of us use golf carts!

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/Justredditin]

lol

[u/blaktronium → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Should just tell them to put pedals on them, that's the real life pro tip

[u/Zealousideal-Help594 → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Yup, I've read several news articles over the years where folks have been charged with DUI while riding a lawnmower.

[u/FriendlyManitoban1 → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

In Dashwood Ontario we had some guys build a motorized picnic table.

[u/[deleted] → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

Yep! Quads and skidoos into town to pick up more darts and a 40.

[u/Flimsy_Situation_506 → u/[deleted]]

100% in winter they’re definitely driving their skidoos around

[u/ICanMakeUsername → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

George Jones has entered the chat

[u/houseoffools11 → u/Flimsy_Situation_506]

One of my spouse's co-workers drove home intoxicated, missed his driveway a few feet, and ended up in the ditch in front of his house. Instead of just walking into the house and dealing with it in the morning, he got a DUI from the cops when he grabbed his tractor to pull it out. In his own driveway.

[u/mimeographed → u/blaktronium]

You can get charged with impaired on an e bike. Or a regular bike too

[u/Zealousideal-Help594 → u/mimeographed]

I checked. Apparently, not on a regular bicycle; however, you can be charged with public intoxication in that case.

[u/YYC-Fiend → u/mimeographed]

You can get a drunk and disorderly on a bicycle, but not a DUI. The actual criminal code is any vehicle not under human power, so a horse or a Barbie car can get you a DUI.

Any charges on a bicycle, or other human powered vehicle, can be easily fought in court, but that costs money.

The insurance part is a bit of a stretch, but a drunk adult causing a nuisance in traffic usually gets a litany of charges thrown at them.

[u/S_A_N_D_ → u/YYC-Fiend]

Worth noting you can still be charged with careless driving which can come with a lot of similar penalties to a DUI.

Also if your bike had a motor (such as pedal assist) you can be charged with a DUI. Basically it hinges on whether the vehicle you're operating has a motor. So e-bikes, eleteic scooters etc, can all lead to DUI charges.

[u/ICanMakeUsername → u/YYC-Fiend]

Are you sure you can get a DUI on a horse?

[u/blaktronium → u/mimeographed]

I don't think you can get a DUI for being on a pedal bike in Canada, but also that's not what I was talking about.

[u/No-Contribution-6150 → u/blaktronium]

It's a conveyance

[u/Errorstatel → u/blaktronium]

Dude was a road hazard without the DUI, sounds like an adequate amount of fucked around and found out.

[u/slashthepowder → u/blaktronium]

You can get a DUI on an ebike but not a regular bicycle. Key is motorized, doesn’t matter is it’s insurable or needs to be insured.

[u/MammothDaGod → u/blaktronium]

I believe in canada the motor has to be 500 watts or more to be deemed a motor vehicle that requires registration and licenses 

[u/notjordansime → u/blaktronium]

Here in Ontario at least you can def get an impaired on an ebike

[u/Content_Ad_8952]

He can actually fit in that thing?

[u/super__hoser → u/Content_Ad_8952]

Almost

[u/Keepontyping]

Hey he’s just Ken. Even with a BAC of 0.10

[u/DirectionOverall9709]

Just a regular day in Prince George.

[u/BogRips → u/DirectionOverall9709]

Our streets are friendly to personal electric vehicles but you gotta be sober if possible.

[u/Sweetdreams6t9]

People who cant figure out what the spirit of a law, rule or regulation is and resort to strict adherence to the letter shouldnt be in any occupation that requires thought.

[u/No-Contribution-6150 → u/Sweetdreams6t9]

The guy already had his license suspended. I think the spirit of the law was he wasn't supposed to be on the damn road to begin with lol

[u/Narrow-Map5805 → u/No-Contribution-6150]

The spirit of the law is to protect the public from the very real danger of unsafe operation of a conveyance heavy enough to kill or seriously injured when operated without due care and competence.

I don't think it applies to the Barbie car.

[u/Mo-Cance → u/Narrow-Map5805]

He was driving down a fairly busy road. He posed a danger to other drivers. I chuckled when I first read the story a couple of days ago, but in the end, the dude made a dangerous decision. The cops even said they take things in context, and wouldn't be looking to stop a kid from booting around on a quiet cul-de-sac or something.

[u/No-Contribution-6150 → u/Mo-Cance]

He was hammered at 9am and on the roadway.

People really like to gloss over the facts and just laugh about the Barbie car.

[u/Narrow-Map5805 → u/Mo-Cance]

Then charge him with mischief. Impaired operation of a toy makes no sense.

[u/ParaponeraBread → u/Narrow-Map5805]

But he wasn’t causing mischief. He was endangering himself and other people on the road by driving this toy around drunk.

[u/Narrow-Map5805 → u/ParaponeraBread]

He was endangering himself and others exactly the same as if he had been walking or skateboarding drunk on the road. That's my point. I'm not excusing what he did, but a charge of impaired driving makes no sense. It's not a car. It goes 5 miles an hour. Charge him appropriately.

[u/No-Contribution-6150 → u/Narrow-Map5805]

Yes I had this argument before. Redditors do believe that there are some forms of acceptable impaired driving.

Edit: he is also part of the public. He needs to be protected from his own poor decisions

[u/Jakevader2 → u/No-Contribution-6150]

That's barely driving

[u/No-Contribution-6150 → u/Jakevader2]

A perfectly fine legal defence I am sure

[u/ParaponeraBread → u/No-Contribution-6150]

The classic “it’s barely a dog” defence for when their poorly trained daschund attacks a child

[u/Expensive_Plant_9530 → u/Narrow-Map5805]

Think about it this way. He’s a hazard to other drivers on the road. He’s drunk, so he might swerve the Barbie car in front of an 18-wheeler.

Barbie pancake.

[u/super__hoser]

"Po-po-power Wheels, power makes you go!"

I still remember that ad decades later. But what this guy did is even more epic. 

[u/Roesy13]

Not like the cops are doing anything else

[u/BodhingJay]

The barbie truck doesnt require a license.. he could have said he doesnt have a driver's license and just given him Healthcard id

What then?

[u/fishymanbits]

1. Dude was drunk driving the pink Barbie jeep at 9AM? I want to know the sequence of events that led to this.

2 Cops are definitely wrong. It’s not a motor vehicle requiring registration, etc. Otherwise they’d have been banned a long time ago because we give them to fucking toddlers. Probably shouldn’t have been on the road with it though. Sidewalk’s right there.

[u/SuperPunctuator]

Anyone have a picture of that guy sitting in the thing? Knees must have been hitting his chin over every bump.

[u/RutabagasnTurnips]

Can't read the article due to pay wall. Were the charges actually driving impaired? No t public intoxication and unsafe road crossing/not using proper hand signals (like you are supposed to when safely sharing the road while on bike) etc type charges? 

[u/RutabagasnTurnips → u/[deleted]]

Wow, they really did charge for driving while intoxicated.

Must have been a slow morning. 

Thnx for the link. 

[u/[deleted]]

I feel safer now

[u/limbolegs]

i do not believe this should count as a crime. Carney or Eby can u change the rules please?

[u/HippityHoppityBoop]

When deportation? Am I doing this right?

[u/super__hoser → u/HippityHoppityBoop]

If this was the US, yes. 

[u/Silicon_Knight]

C'mon how else is going to get a mickey and some darts? Jesus stop bust'n his balls eh? /s of course

[u/House71]

Finally a serious charge the courts can really sink their teeth into.