--- In [email protected], "Trevor" <listsandst...@...> 
wrote:
>
> > 
> I doubt it - there is an exhibition of old laws at the Law Society 
Library
> which are still on today's Statute Book:  it includes the Licensing 
Act
> 1872, which says being drunk in charge of a horse, cow or steam 
engine
> incurs a £200 fine and possibly jail for up to 51 weeks.
> 


Ah ! But drunk and over 80 emithingies per watsit are far removed 
from 
each other !
Incidentally - I wonder what the penalties are for blowing a bad bag 
with the new boaty rules.

Regards
Pete
With cars it is your licence gone - what will they threaten with 
overlimit boat driving ?

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