Drink driver isn't too bright

A DRIVER who forgot to turn his headlights on was caught joyriding in his friend's car.

Calum Jack had "borrowed" his friend's car keys while they were at a party together. But he didn't get permission to take the car, Livingston Sheriff Court heard.

Police pulled him over in the early hours of December 31 because the car headlights were switched off, prosecutor Wendy McDonald told the court.

Officers noticed Jack smelt strongly of alcohol and he was given a roadside breath test, which he failed. On the way to the police station he confessed that he had taken the car keys from a house in Livingston and admitted the owner didn't know he had taken the car.

At Livingston police station he refused a second breath test.

Jack, 21, of Linlithgow, West Lothian, pleaded guilty to taking a car without the owner's consent and failing to provide police with two breath samples. Sheriff Douglas Kinloch disqualified him from driving for three years and ordered him to do 100 hours of community service.