Drinking eight Heinekens and then driving cost a 33-year-old Southampton man $1,000 and a year off the road yesterday.

Maurice Masters, of Sunny Side Park, pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence when he appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Crown counsel Robert Welling told the court that Police stopped Masters on suspicion of impaired driving on Crow Lane, Pembroke.

They notice that his speech was slurred and ask him if he had been drinking. Masters said: "I drank eight Heinekens."

Police arrested Masters and took him to Hamilton Police station. There Masters said: "F**k man, I am Bermudian and you're not even from here."

In court Masters, a self-employed graphic designer, had nothing to say.

Senior Magistrate, Archibald Warner, fined him $1,000, disqualified him from driving for 12 months and issued him ten demerit points.