In "Trailer Park Boys". Mr. Lahey loses his job after crashing his car and labeled as being intoxicated with a police cover-up. Years later in the "Christmas Special" episode. we discover that Ricky, Julian and Bubbles crashed the car by accident as kids, while Jim Lahey got liquor spilled on his clothes. With this new video evidence Mr. Lahey gets his job back as an officer.
That kind of thing couldn't happen in real life..could it??
Sacked drunk cop wins job back
15:30 AEST Sun Mar 27 2011
A South Coast police officer sacked for asking a colleague to fake an alcohol breath test after smashing his car has won his job back.
Constable Adam McDonald, 35, from Kiama was so intoxicated after attending a ping-pong competition that he totalled a parked vehicle and smashed into a retaining wall, the Sunday Telegraph reports.The Industrial Court of NSW heard Mr McDonald was taken to Kiama Police Station where he initially asked another officer to take a breath test in his place, before returning a blood alcohol reading of 0.205.
According to police, the constable and father-of-three was abusive and tried to use his position to have officers cover-up the incident in January 2009.
He was subsequently suspended without pay for 15 months in December 2009 by NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.
On the day of the crash, Mr McDonald had been at a golf and poker event at the Kiama Golf Club where he drank four schooners of beer over four hours.
He then went to a ping-pong event located "two to three kilometres" from his home, bringing with him a 750mL bottle of bourbon.
After passing out at the competition, he woke up and attempted to drive home when he hit the parked car.
When officers arrived at the scene on Meehan Drive, Mr McDonald had "F--k the police" written on his back, a drawing of a penis scribbled on his left cheek and left leg with a black marker, and his fly was undone, the court heard.
Police found a parked car had been "extensively damaged" with the bumper ripped off and the engine exposed.
Mr McDonald told the court he couldn't recall much from that night, telling the court his drinks could've been spiked with drugs or mixed with large qualities of alcohol.
The constable has now won his job back after challenging his sacking in the industrial court, in which the judge ruled the suspension was harsh.
Judge Wayne Haylen said Mr McDonald would have felt "fear and concern" when he awoke to find people drawing on him.
He went on to say the circumstances may have "caused him to drive his vehicle when he otherwise would not have done so".
He said Mr McDonald was remorseful, had apologised for his actions and attended alcohol counselling.
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