{"id":614932,"date":"2026-06-01T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614932\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:54:28","slug":"he-is-thinking-the-whole-thing-is-a-great-joke-david-warner-slammed-for-his-instagram-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614932\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He is thinking the whole thing is a great joke\u2019: David Warner slammed for his Instagram post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Australia opener David Warner<\/a> has been criticised for an Instagram post that appeared to be making light of his drunk-driving offence back in April.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Warner in the soup again! (AFP)<\/p>\n

Warner was playing in the Pakistan Super League at the time, and a long break between matches gave him an opportunity to fly back to Australia, where he found himself embroiled in a drunk-driving situation. Warner was caught by the cops in Sydney, and later he failed a breath-analyser test.<\/p>\n

In the Instagram post in question, Warner is in a car with his daughter. The caption with the post read: \u201cMy DD [designated driver] for the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also Read: David Warner is not so much to blame for drink-driving; freedom-controlling Pakistan can make one lose their head<\/a><\/p>\n

To some, it may come across as an innocuous, light-hearted post, but there are also many who think that such posts belittle the horrible offence of drunk driving.<\/p>\n

Drive to Survive founder Ian Luff took strong exception to the post. \u201cPeople look up to high-profile sportspeople and have an expectation that their behaviour sets an example,\u201d Luff told the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need a wake-up call, and public figures should be setting a better example, not dismissing it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Victims\u2019 advocate Howard Brown had a similar stance on the matter. \u201cWe’re trying to save people’s lives, and he is thinking the whole thing is a great joke,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

Warner, who captains Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League, was charged with a mid-range offence.<\/p>\n

Warner returned to Pakistan shortly after the incident, and things went from bad to worse for him. Before the incident, Warner\u2019s Karachi Kings had won all three of their matches; however, once he returned, their world came crashing down. Their form dipped so badly that they even failed to reach the play-offs.<\/p>\n

It’s a problem for sure!<\/p>\n

One can\u2019t help but agree with those two gentlemen\u2019s observations on the matter. Drunk driving has taken many innocent lives, and it\u2019s a big scourge. It should be taken very seriously. Warner may not have meant to offend people, but as said before, it\u2019s a serious issue, and he should have been careful.<\/p>\n

Warner hasn\u2019t entered a plea yet, but it is expected he will go for a guilty plea. His lawyer Bobby Hill had earlier said, \u201cHe knows what he did was wrong. He accepts that it was a reckless decision, a foolish decision to get in his car instead of taking an Uber. It’s not a crime to have a glass of wine on the day of the lord’s resurrection. In fact, some would consider that completely appropriate. His crime is, as I said, choosing a foolish plan A instead of a plan B.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australia opener David Warner has been criticised for an Instagram post that appeared to be making light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[209272,1721,26316,48917,55274,209273,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-australia-opener","tag-cricket","tag-david-warner","tag-drunk-driving","tag-instagram-post","tag-mid-range-offence","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}