A 39-year-old father said a 200-pound female passenger on his motorcycle caused him to fall not the Police car he ran into while driving drunk.

Troy Harris, 39, unemployed of Happy Valley Road, Pembroke, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court yesterday to drink driving, but disagreed with the chain of events.

According to Crown counsel Larissa Burgess on September 21 at around 1 a.m. Police officers in a marked car pulled over on Rambling Road, in Pembroke, to allow Harris and his passenger to pass.

As he was overtaking the Police car, Harris fell against the rear door and then fell to the ground immediately. The officers left the car and approached to try and help him.

Harris reportedly told the officers 'I have been drinking all night' and they arrested him.

But yesterday Harris said it was not running into the Police car that caused him to fall, but the weight of his passenger and pleaded with the Magistrate to give him more time to pay a fine.

"I came up on the hill right there around the corner I had the girl on the back and she must've weighed more than me, almost 200lbs and I lost my footing," he said.

"I came up the hill from my cousin's party. She was almost 200lbs and we were both on the ground."

"I have got all these children, five children and Christmas is coming. I need two months to pay any fine."

"Why are the officers not getting charged with wrong things?"

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner, however, explained to Harris that he was not being charged with driving with his hefty passenger, but with drunk driving.

He said: "We are not charging you with driving with a 200lb woman. We are charging you with impaired driving."

He then fined Harris $1,000, was disqualified from vehicles for 12 months and ten demerit points.