I blew 0.175 and pinged for dangerous driving back in the late 80's. A mate and I were on a shitty old gsx250, on a stormy night, though i did have good local knowledge of the roads I was on (twisty mountain roads).
Anyway, i had this car trying to close in on me but it couldnt get much closer than 200 metres. But he was shitting me off within high beam, so as you do, you give it more stick. This shit went on 10 minutes until I got to a tricky section going downhill to which I decided to pull over and let the fuckwit past. Unbeknown to me it was the fuzz were trying to pull me over.
That's when two cop cars boxed me in, got out and were trying to kick the bike out from under us. I thought me mate got off the back by then, and just stepped off the bike and down it went with the DC's still kicking at the bike. As it turned out, mate was still on the back and went arse up with the bike. Cops grabbed him, threw him in the back of the car, and me into bonnet. They soon realise me mate had claret pissing out of his melon, and the blood was everywhere through the back of the cop car, which then had two coppers bitching with each other about who was going to clean it up (piss funny). They then ripped me mate back out of the cop car and sent him on his way. I guess they weren't up for the extra paperwork.
Anyway, took me to the cop shop and booked me. Once they released me, I said to one wanker "how about a lift home?", to which he responded "find your own way home". Then I came back with "You're right, that's probably the safest option, because none of you can drive for shit". Got back home, mate had cleaned himself by then and wasnt looking too bad. He had stashed the bike in the bush and we collected it the next day.
Finally getting to the Duty Solicitor bit. I was offered the option of one and being naive to the system I thought it'd be the better route to take. My name eventually is called out and I'm up, this DS turned out to be a bumbling fool that didn't bother reviewing the charge sheet and was dribbling all sorts of nonsense. She was that bad, even the judge pulled up twice during the time. And basically both of them sent me down.
Judge slaps me 2.2k fine, suspended for 22 months for the two charges.But still pisses me off to this day, I'm yet to see anyone with similar offences having to cop anything close to me to this date (with traffic offences that you read about in the papers).
So yeah, fuck Duty Solicitors.