Movie link in driving offences
PA Dunedin Philip . Stephen Payne, aged 17, who saw the film, “Goodbye Pork Pie,” 18 times and then tried out the same driving tactics on a Central Otago highway, has been ordered by a District Court judge to do 100 hours community work. Judge Murray was told that the car Payne had taken from Dunedin was finally rammed by a police car after Payne's driving had forced two other motorists on State highway 8, near Roxburgh, to swerve to avoid a collision.
Payne admitted unlawfully taking a car from Dunedin on July 16 and driving it in a dangerous manner, and two further charges involving unlawfully taken cars in the city. the Judge sentenced Payne to 100 hours of community service on the dangerous driving charge, and disqualified him from driving for the maximum three years. He • said that Payne had seen “Goodbye Pork Pie” so many times that he identified with it, and it became the motivation for the driving incident in .Central Otago.
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