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Police: Ford Model T Driver Was On Meth, Cocaine, CannabisA Ford Model T driver in Australia is in big trouble after police concluded he was on meth, cocaine, and cannabis. These days the Ford Model T has a squeaky clean image in the car world, so to hear someone who was driving one was allegedly on multiple drugs is really something else.
Rich kids in an Audi A3 go 140 mph trying to ditch police.
But The Hills Police Area Command says the unnamed 24-year-old male driver was “accelerating aggressively” in Castle Hill, New South Wales while behind the wheel of a Model T hotrod. That last detail is all we need to know, because those hotrod drivers are pure trouble (that’s sarcasm, for those who can’t tell).
Anyway, the guy was also allegedly going 83 kmh in a 60 kmh zone (that’s 51 mph in a 37 mph zone) and so was pulled over by officers. We’re guessing as they talked to the guy, they became suspicious he was on something.
Little did they know he was on a few things. After using a roadside “breath test” which we didn’t even know was a thing, that came back as negative. But a roadside drug test showed positive for cocaine and cannabis.
After collecting some of the guy’s spit, which was analyzed in an actual lab, the conclusion was the guy also had meth in his system.
Understandably, the driver has a court date and will be doing some explaining to a judge.
But here’s where we have an issue: police gave the driver a “defect notice” because the Ford Model T had been modified “beyond factory specifications.”
We’ve seen other cases out of Australia where drivers have been dinged for any sort of mod on their vehicle, although cops there seem to really despise hotrods and the like.
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