Sam Hunt gets ticket
PA Auckland New Zealand poet Sam Hunt could lose his licence after being given a ticket for drunken driving in Auckland last weekend. Hunt was approached by traffic officers when he stopped at traffic lights in Ponsonby on Saturday.
He was with a friend in his well-known black Chevrolet and failed to move when the lights changed to green. He was breathalysed and found to be over the legal blood-alcohol limit. He later admitted he had been drinking. “The traffic officer said
I was the most pleasant drunk he’d encountered,” Hunt said. Although he was not “swearing off the bottle,” the incident had a sobering effect on him and he would moderate his drinking. “I’ll probably always enjoy the ‘hoonier’ things of life.”
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