This Man Blamed His Drunk Driving Charge on Homemade Rum Cake

People will try anything to wangle their way out of a drink driving charge. There's the old toilet paper trick and the guy who cried beer-battered fish. Or how about the woman who claimed her body naturally produces its own alcohol? (OK, that last one is actually true.)

And now Oral Campbell from Nottingham has been inducted into that same hall of DUI fame. His excuse of choice? Rum cake.

Campbell claims that all he indulged in before getting behind the wheel after a party last month was one beer and the Caribbean spirit-soaked cake. But when pulled over by the police, a breathalyser test showed that he had 47 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, which is over the legal driving limit of 35 micrograms.

Despite insisting on having only consumed a single beer and boozy cake, Campbell was banned from driving for 12 months and fined £265. He told Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Monday: "I was aware of what I was doing. I didn't know I was over the limit."

Campbell isn't the first to blame alcohol-doused bakes when under fire from the law. Another driver (Julie Wynne, also from Nottingham—maybe there actually is something in the water there?), almost got off on a drink-driving charge after putting her breathalyser results down to three large slices of Christmas pudding made with half a bottle of whisky. On an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions however, the High Court ruled that Wynne should face disqualification.

So, next time you're mid-mouthful through a rum ball or mojito cupcake, take a long hard look at the baker. Because if they're anything like "bubbly" Aunt May who brought her special sherry trifle over for that family barbecue last summer that no one really remembers, you might want to get a taxi home.