A guest worker who enjoyed too many drinks on Christmas Day spent the night in the cells after making the mistake of getting on his bike.

Delfin Agulto, 30, collided with a wall on the road where he lives in Valley Road, Paget, at 10.30 p.m. on Christmas night. He was arrested by the Police who noticed that he appeared to be drunk.

A breath test showed he had 119 mg of alcohol in his bloodstream when the legal limit is 80 mg. Agulto told the Police: "I was only parking the bike."

He was charged over the matter on Boxing Day having been kept at the Police station overnight.

At Magistrates' Court yesterday he pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and also driving while disqualified, because records showed he'd already been banned from the roads for the period March 15, 2007 to March 14, 2008.

Agulto, a waiter from the Philippines, explained to Acting Magistrate Edward Bailey that he was planning to go home to the Philippines on Boxing Day. He'd hoped to buy the bike when he returned.

Apologising for getting on it when drunk, he said: "It was Christmas Day. I'm really sorry for that."

Mr. Bailey fined him $2,000, banned him from driving for 12 months, and meted out eight demerit points.