A routine police stop has revealed the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs, especially if your car is unregistered and especially if you have a very strange excuse.
A Victoria police officer recently stopped a Toyota Camry without registration plates in Shepparton and filmed the encounter for the popular Channel Nine Show RBT.
The officer said, “I just saw the Toyota Camry driving down a street with no license plates, so I decided to pull it over to see what was going on.”
The officer approached the driver, Mohammad, and asked if he had been drinking alcohol. Mohammed replied that he had not.
But when the officer asked for a drug test, Mohammad admitted to smoking methamphetamine.
The officer responded, “Mate, you can’t have methamphetamine and drive.”
It seemed an indisputable fact, but the 33-year-old had other ideas, saying: ‘But I have permission for Covid research’, and that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison had given him permission.
The officer ignored the strange justification and asked him how much methamphetamine he had taken
A police stop video (pictured) has shown the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs, especially if your car is unregistered and especially if you have a very strange excuse
‘Half, something like that. Half a gram. Yeah, maybe I smoked something like that,” he replied. “This is medicine for me.”
Not only was his car not registered, he also had no driver’s license. Add methamphetamine to the mix and he was in serious trouble.
To check his sobriety or otherwise, the officer had Mohammad pass a medical swab around his mouth and then tested it.
“The second test shows you have methamphetamine in your system,” the officer said.
At this point the gravity of the situation finally seemed to dawn on Mohammed.
‘Methamphetamine. I have to go to court?’ he asked.
‘Maybe you should go to court. Yes. Do you understand,” the police officer said.
He nodded his head and said he understood, the seriousness of his position showing on his face.
The officer said, “YYou were approached by the police a number of times because you did not have the car registered and did not have a driver’s license,” to which Mohammed agreed.
However, the police officer saw the funny side of the encounter and said to the camera: ‘he will have to go to courtand explain to the magistrate that Scott Morrison gave him permission to use methamphetamines.”
Mohammad then told the office he was “so sorry” for what he had done.
“Well, I’m sorry too, because we’re going to take your car away from you,” the police officer replied. ‘You’ve already had two warnings. Two warnings.’
Clutching at straws, a smiling and very chatty Mohammed asked if he could ‘please’ get another warning, but was told: ‘No, I can’t. I’m sorry’.
‘I can’t do it either. I’m so sorry,” he replied.
When driver Mohammad (pictured) was stopped in Shepparton, Victoria, the police officer told him: ‘Mate, you are not allowed to have methamphetamine and drive’
The officer turned back to the camera and said, “The important thing is that he won’t have a car to drive for the next thirty days.
“So he has some time to think about what he did today.”
Now that what was happening finally dawned on Mohammed, he opened up about the problems he had with his drug addiction.
“Methamphetamine is what I used to use. But if you ask me to stop doing this, I mainly try to solve this, because it has caused me a lot of problems…
‘I’m sorry I went crazy. I’m telling you (methamphetamine is) not good for people. It can damage the brain, you know? Not good,” he said.
The pOlice connected Mohammad with treatment and support services.