South Africa:
Man fined for drunk-driving donkey cart

Hans du Toit was fined nearly $300 for drunk driving a donkey cart in a small town north of Johannesburg and then telling police he was unconcerned “because the animals knew the way home”.

Traffic officials noticed his donkey cart swerving all over Philipolis main road on Wednesday. He was told not to continue driving, “But when the policeman left, I decided: ‘I know this road and so does my donkeys. If I don’t find it, my donkeys will,” Du Toit said in a statement before court.

Traffic officials and the court took a stern view and sentenced Du Toit to the fine or two years in jail, of which 21 months were suspended for four years.