A 33 year old man who drinks more than 80 pints of cider a week ended up in court charged with damaging a police vehicle.
But alcoholic Peter Thorpe was so drunk he could not remember putting a dent in the police car one night in September in Tiverton, Devon.
Exeter magistrates were told that Thorpe lives on £89.60p a week incapacity benefits.
His lawyer Peter Seigne said:"He drinks six litres of cider a day. He spends £45 a week of his benefits on drinking and smoking."
Thorpe, from Tiverton, Devon, admitted criminal damage and was fined a total of £170 with costs.
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