Misbehaviour in Mooloolaba blamed on alcohol
Wed 27 May 2009
Megan Marks, Journalism Major
Being drunk was their excuse. Maroochydore Court heard at least three cases yesterday where young people used “I was drunk” as the reason they ended up in court.
A drunken Tuesday night out cost an 18-year-old waitress from Mooloolaba $4600 in restitution for damaging a Hilux utility.
The court heard on March 10 an intoxicated Brittany Jean Lemarseny attacked the vehicle parked at an address in Mooloolaba, breaking its windscreen and damaging several panels.
Duty lawyer Clare Sultmann told the court the vehicle’s owner had slept with Lemarseny’s partner and the attack had been in response to that.
“My client cannot remember the incident as she was intoxicated at the time,” Ms Sultmann said.
Lemarseny was ordered to pay restitution and fined $500. No conviction was recorded.
In a separate incident Daniel Sidney King, 22, was fined $150 for public nuisance offences which included abusing and obstructing police at Mooloolaba on March 8.
The court heard about 8pm on the Sunday night police approached King and a group of men as they loitered around their parked cars behind Mooloolaba Esplanade.
As one of the men was being charged King started verbally abusing the police officers, screaming just centimetres from a female officer’s face.
The man being charged told King to leave the police officer alone, telling him “don’t start a riot. If I want to turn it on, I’ll turn it on.”
In response King abused his friend and encouraged him to assault the police officers. King told the court he had acted this way because “I was very drunk on the night.”
A 19-year-old Maroochydore man was also fined $150 after he created a public nuisance on Mooloolaba Esplanade while drunk on a Sunday night.
The court heard on March 1 Andrew Phillip Newham had been waiting at a taxi rank when police heard him screaming obscenities into his mobile phone.
As police approached he stumbled into a group of people, knocking one man to the ground.
Newham said the reason for his actions was he had drunk too much. “To be honest I can’t remember much of the night,” Newham told the court.
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