put him on a bus has been banned from driving for a year.

Police spotted Ralph Jones slouching on his motorbike on Bermudiana Road, Hamilton, at 8 p.m. on November 11.

Crown counsel Leighton Rochester told Magistrates' Court that when Police asked Jones if he was drunk, he replied: "No, my team won''.

Mr. Rochester said Jones, 39, of Hillview Road, Warwick, continued to babble and smelled strongly of intoxicants. Police took him to the bus station and told him he would be arrested if he tried to drive home.

Twenty five minutes later, they spotted Jones riding his bike north along Bermudiana Road and stopped him.

A breath test showed he had 223 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams in 100 millilitres.

Jones, a gas attendant at the Shell station in Southampton, pleaded guilty to driving while impaired. He told Senior Magistrate Will Francis: "I had a little too much alcohol at the time and I was on the way home.'' When Mr. Francis asked him why he did not get the bus, Jones said he did not have any money.

Mr. Francis fined Jones $450 and banned him from driving all motor vehicles for 12 months.