It was a hard fought contest and the competition was fierce. I assumed the winner would be someone famous like Paris Hilton or Mel Gibson, but the Drunk Driver of the Year award winner is another Aussie… a 54-year old woman from Brisbane.

On December 11 of last year the woman was charged with drunk driving, registering a blood alcohol level of 0.25 which is five times the legal limit. The legal limit in Australia is 0.05. The U.S. legal limit is 0.08.

When she arrived at Cleveland Magistrates Court for sentencing yesterday, she crashed into several cars in the court house parking lot. This time she blew a 0.262 and her license was suspended. At this point she was considered one of the front runners, but not a shoe-in.

Show of hands. How many of you have guessed what happened next? Excellent… all of you but the guy asleep in the back row. Yep, the grand prize winner was arrested for a third time last night and is currently in custody waiting to find out just what she’s won.

When asked how she felt about coming in first the woman said, “It was a shurprise to me and who the fuck ish Parish Hilton?”

To think that all this time I thought when my Aussie friends said “cheers, mate”, it was just a way of saying hi or bye.

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