A drink-driver was caught behind the wheel after going to buy cocaine then ran off and hid in bushes.
The incident happened in the early hours of the morning at a 24-hour restaurant in Dunfermline when Kerr McGouldrick was more than three times over the limit.
McGouldrick , 22, of Rosebud Place, Dunfermline, admitted drink-driving on December 29 at McDonald’s car park, Duloch Park.
His reading was 67 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 22 microgrammes.
He also admitted that with the intention of evading detection and prosecution for drink-driving he made good his escape from police officers with intent to pervert the course of justice and attempted to pervert the course of justice.
He further admitted that at Dunfermline police station he was in possession of a controlled drug, cocaine.
Depute fiscal Dev Kapadia said at 4am police officers on mobile patrol were flagged down by a male who told them there was a 16-plate Land Rover Discovery nearby being driven by someone under the influence of alcohol.
As the officers went to check, the vehicle was “driven aggressively past them”, the depute told Dunfermline Sheriff Court. “They followed the car and saw the accused attempting to park it.”
It was parked outwith the bay and McGouldrick ran out of the car straight into McDonalds.
A PNC check showed it was a company-owned vehicle. One of the officers went into the restaurant and asked McGouldrick to go outside.
The officers could smell alcohol from him and McGouldrick admitted he had been drinking, having been “stupid”.
He then ran off and later admitted he had been hiding in the bushes. A McDonald’s employee phoned the police at 5.30am to say that McGouldrick had returned. The worker also told officers that car keys had been found hidden in a bin in the toilets.
Police went back to McDonald’s and McGouldrick was detained after giving a positive breath-test.
Defence solicitor Russel McPhate said his client was now unemployed having lost his job because of the incident and his girlfriend had also ended their relationship.
“This has all brought home to him how stupid he has been,” he added.
He said his client had been to Edinburgh with friends earlier and someone else was driving. However, he had then decided to drive to buy the drugs.
Sheriff David Griffiths disqualified McGouldrick from driving for 18 months and fined him a total of £800.