Is it just me or would this be the basis for a good pinball machine?

we gotta thing called cop-car love.....we gotta way in the air.....radar love

it was the marijuana that caused all the problems.

Better hide ma stash, looks like another witch-hunt starting.

He will most certainly use the first 'yard' day to call one of his mates to fly by and pick him up.

Low marks for craziness. Not a very creative psycho. Could have come up with better stories, and let's face it, he just wasn't on enough different kinds of drugs to be a 'veritable pharmacy' (or pharmacopia?) I really hope the next time he wigs out, he's better prepared. There will be a quiz.

"Patrinostro was booked into the county jail, and his bail set at $50,000. If convicted, he faces more than three years' jail. "

Thats if he is ever seen again after revealing his work...

People are so suspicious nowadays!

Yep!

Just like the story (stories) in the papers about Mr X doing something crazy after downing 10 pints of extra-strength lager and having 2 tokes on a joint- its all obviously the fault of EVIL CANNABIS!

It's not as though weed makes you relaxed, passive, giggly and somewhat hungry....

"Got pulled over by the cops once on acid... Don't recommend it. Cops don't appreciate fish driving around."

...he is obviously a high flight risk.

Where's the IT angle???

Sorry, I couldn't help it, keep up the good work, IT angle or not (but no Paris unless it's coverage of something very unpleasant happening to her).

only ?

...I thought this was going to be the Friday afternoon mashup of this weeks stories.

"It's not as though weed makes you relaxed, passive, giggly and somewhat hungry..."

... paranoid, irritating to those around you, generally antisocial...

Oh wait, the guy drove whilst intoxicated, with no thought for anyone's safety, hit three cars, then claimed Area 51 was involved?

Not able to say which drug caused the biggest problem for this astronaut, but I'm 99% certain that the guy's a dick.

And that's the real reason drugs are illegal. Nothing to do with health or tax, it's purely that weed turns you into a whiney dick, cocaine turns you into an irritating dick and heroine turns you into a Glaswegian. I've seen Trainspotting.

Well, it is.

An order of Schizophrenia with a side of stupid, please.

Top marks that man.

Trainspotting was set in Edinburgh...

it's spelt "Heroin" rather than "Heroine" which is the feminine version of Hero

Also, alcohol and tobacco (or lack of the latter after the addiction has set in, anyway) have always seemed to me to be pretty bad for making people dickish.

But yeah, I have to agree that the guy's a dick for driving while intoxicated. And not having a decent cover story.

I CAN'T DRIVE 55!!!

<quote> ""told the [arresting] officer that the vehicle could fly if he went fast enough"

True, if it is a DeLorean and the speed is 88mph in an electric storm.

Poor sod probably just took the wrong car by mistake

Paris - because I'd like her to come over and regenerate my flux capacitor

btw - the Hans up the top of the page wasn't me.

Has my Reg identity been stolen?

Dammit . . . and I told El Reg not to put that unencrypted CD in the post

( there's your IT angle. Happy now?)

the decaying alien bodies in the boot? I guess not, or not yet.

the guy thought he was playing Burnout Paradise alpha PC on his Alienware box, the wee bit of extra medication in his bloodstream was to soothe the £3624 pain.

Lightweight.

Love from,

Withnail

I'll buy maybe that the feds had him drugged up for some experiment. Maybe even possibly his car could fly... But the notion that the government wanted to cure AIDS. That's beyond credulity.

"3 years

only ?"

"The charge of DUI with injury carries much more serious consequences than simple DUI. If the prosecutor charges it as a misdemeanor, the defendant faces up to a year in jail (plus the other standard DUI penalties). If the prosecutor charges it as felony DUI, the defendant faces up to 3 years state prison (plus an additional year for each additional person who is injured).

Worse still, if any of the injured parties is seriously hurt, the DUI defendant may be charged with a "great bodily injury" enhancement. This adds up to three additional years of state prison. Moreover, the "great bodily injury" enhancement makes the DUI offense a strike under California's Three Strikes law."

they could aslo charge him with assault which would be a second strike and he would be looking at 15 years.

"Assault With Deadly Weapon: Motor Vehicle

13351.5. (a) Upon receipt of a duly certified abstract of the record of any court showing that a person has been convicted of a felony for a violation of Section 245 of the Penal Code and that a vehicle was found by the court to constitute the deadly weapon or instrument used to commit that offense, the department immediately shall revoke the privilege of that person to drive a motor vehicle.

(b) The department shall not reinstate a privilege revoked under subdivision (a) under any circumstances.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the department shall terminate any revocation order issued under this section on or after January 1, 1995, for a misdemeanor conviction of violating Section 245 of the Penal Code.

Added Ch. 1221, Stats. 1994. Effective January 1, 1995.

Amended Sec. 15, Ch. 606, Stats. 1998. Effective January 1, 1999. "

Its odd that if i'm just charged with a DUI and I hurt some , six months I can drive. If i;m charged with assault and a car was used, I lose it for life.

Because with a story like that, he must be Dubya's main foreign and domestic policy adviser!

Yes, far better that he be in withdrawal.

Like it would be better for you to drive to work without having had your first cup of coffee and/or fag. Love to have a bunch of people like that on the road.

Waste of an article, waste of a click.

....bow to our Dodge driving, drunk, stoned and crazy alien overlords!

Give the guy a break... He got nabbed on Sunday evening... He was probably on his way to work and left early so he could get there in time Monday morning... That Highway 101 commute in San Rafael is H*LL.

Seriously though, hope he has an enjoyable stay at the iron bar hotel...

/getting my coat and heading for work in San Rafael

Wondered when the boffins at Area 51 would come up with a working "Mr Fusion" unit.

Mines the yellow coat with the radiation shield....

Going to keep on posting these, guess one day the editors might decide to focus on QUALITY not quantity....

No, really, your point is?

I'll reiterate my previous comment:

"guess one day the editors might decide to focus on QUALITY not quantity"

Because even if you keep on posting non IT related 'stories' they should at least be up to a certain standard...if a few paragraphs about some bloke mashed up to high heaven is supposed to be a standard then I guess El Reg must be in dire straights?

I take my hat off to Joshua: "Waste of an article, waste of a click." and I'll add "waste of bandwidth"...perhaps I should report you to Tiscalli?* They may wish to start charging...

*Now you have an IT angle.

Aww, poor Stephen.

I guess you came to this story expecting it to be a real flying car. I can understand your disappointment there I guess.

Either that or you're just trolling because you're a dick.

Stephen has a Bee in his bonnet today.

California has all types (look it has me!). This guy is a little bit off the wall. Been watching way to many movies.

So this guy must've heard "Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly" and decided to give it a try? Except he forgot either to fill the tank up with cannabis, or got into the wrong DeLorean!

Mine's the self-drying one, next to the hoverboard.

Aha! Sarah's blown her past - a Mark Knopfler groupieeeeeeeeee!

Yeah! Sultana of Swing!