See no evil,...or the Law is an ASS!!

Some of you may remember the 1989 film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, "See no evil, hear no evil", about a deaf man (Wilder) and a blind man (Pryor) who witness a murder.

One scene in the film involves Pryor driving a car, under the direction of Wilder. At one point Wilder remonstrates with Pryor and demands that he "looks" where he's going, to which the "blind" Pryor retorts "OK, if it makes you feel better!".

Well it appears that the scene from the film has been replicated in real life.

A blind man, Omed Aziz, was convicted of dangerous driving, after police spotted his car on the wrong side of the road, and was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison suspended for a year.

Aziz, who lost his eyes in a bomb blast in Iraq, was driving through Oldbury on 23 April.
He was arrested along with a 21-year-old Iraqi at about 2300 BST, after police followed their car along Oldbury Ringway and into West Bromwich Street, the court was told.

Iraq-born Aziz, from Birmingham Street, Darlaston, denied dangerous driving but had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to driving with no MOT, no licence and no insurance.

However, in yet another example of the law being an ASS, Magistrates said they were required by law to order Aziz to take an "...extended driving test", if he ever decides to apply for a driving licence.

HELLO!! The man is BLIND!!