A man is due to appear in court for driving with excess breath alcohol \u2013 after his car’s “extremely loud exhaust” echoed through the car park of a Christchurch mall and attracted the attention of police.<\/p>\n
Officers were out on foot patrol in Cashel Mall on Wednesday when they said they heard a “particularly loud car accelerating and reverberating through the nearby indoor carpark”, police said.<\/p>\n
Senior Constable Scott Agnew said the noise also drew the attention of members of the public pointed out the black Holden to officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe stopped the vehicle inside the car park and issued the driver with a $600 fine for driving, causing annoyance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver admitted the offence but it was an expensive bit of fun. He also had an excess of breath alcohol, and it wasn\u2019t his first time.”<\/p>\n
Agnew said the car had a modified exhaust and was issued with a green sticker for defects.<\/p>\n
\u201cExhaust noise can\u2019t be noticeably and significantly louder than the original exhaust.”<\/p>\n
A 56-year-old man is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on March 25 charged with driving with excess breath alcohol for a third or subsequent time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is due to appear in court for driving with excess breath alcohol \u2013 after his car’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-315402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}