[h2]It was my wife's vibrator that distracted me, says man accused of impaired driving[/h2] [div class="feed_details"][h4]Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun[/h4][span]Published: Friday, March 16, 2007[/span][/div] VANCOUVER - A Langley man offered a novel defence at his impaired driving trial to explain why his car was weaving on Highway 1, causing him to be pulled over by police.[/p] Kristopher Lind said it wasn't the 10 beers and a double cocktail he had consumed. He said his attention wasn't fully on his driving because his wife was using a vibrator bought that day at a sex show in Vancouver.[/p] "Would it be fair to say that you found this distracting?" asked defence lawyer Bruce Ralston, who took on the case before he was elected MLA for Surrey-Whalley.[a class="additionals" href="jvascript:void%20window.DOH%21%28%27/components/email.aspx?id=0a669ad1-34c4-4752-879a-d8f138a4f03a&referrer=vny!://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=0a669ad1-34c4-4752-879a-d8f138a4f03a%27,%20%27%27,%20%27width=450,height=410,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no%27%29"][span][/span][/a]
[/p][a class="additionals printer" href="jvascript:void%20window.DOH%21%28%27/components/print.aspx?id=0a669ad1-34c4-4752-879a-d8f138a4f03a%27,%20%27%27,%20%27width=700,height=400,location=no,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes%27%29"][span][/span][/a][div class="fontsize_label"][a href="jvascript:setClassName%28%27article%27,%27para16%27%29;%20setClassName%28%27fontsizecontainer%27,%27size03%27%29;"][span][/span][/a]The 28-year-old car rental firm employee agreed.[/div] Crown prosecutor John Caldwell asked: "It never occurred to you at any point to stop over on the shoulder?"[/p] "No," Lind replied.[/p] Lind testified in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court he and his wife were driving in Vancouver, heading for Highway 1, when he and his wife decided to check out the vibrator.[/p] The package proved difficult for his wife to unwrap, so she handed it to him while he was driving. He said he opened the package with one hand, using his knee to help steer the car, and did the same again to insert batteries.[/p] Once the device was working, he said, his wife began using it while Lind drove east on Highway 1.[/p] "She was really enjoying it, obviously, and I was . . . driving along and I saw a car . . . on the shoulder pull out quickly . . . and the police lights came on."[/p] He was arrested after he failed a roadside breathalyser test.[/p] Lind denied he was driving while drunk.[/p] The judge will render his verdict March 28.
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