Teen admits golf course burn-outs
A teenager who did burn-outs in a car on the fairways at the Temuka Golf Club has been fined $1000 and ordered to pay $1608 to repair the damage.
Police said the two or three minutes of burn-outs on May 17 tore up the three manicured fairways and damaged two sprinklers.
Barnabas Ben-Canaan, 18, pleaded guilty to charges of wilful damage and driving while his licence was suspended, at an appearance before Judge Barbara Morris in the Christchurch District Court.
Judge Morris told him one conviction for an 18-year-old could be explained away as a misjudgement, but she warned: “If you do it again, it starts to define who you are.”
She said: “There needs to be a deterrent sentence for such cases, which are just designed to cause destruction.”
She imposed the $1000 fine, ordered Ben-Canaan to pay $1608 reparations at $50 a week, and disqualified him for driving for six months.
Police said his licence had been suspended in March for three months for accumulating too many demerit points.
At 9.20pm on May 17, he drove a Toyota Corolla on to the Temuka Golf Course from Domain Terrace, and did the burn-outs on the fairways. He was found by the police leaving the golf course.
Asked to explain, Ben-Canaan said he did not realise he was on a golf course.
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