Pomersbach shouldn't be on the roads

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Luke Pomersbach is a privileged young man. He’s also a dill.
They are the only conclusions we can draw from yesterday’s court case, where the WA and international cricketer was granted an extraordinary driver’s licence after losing his regular licence for drunken driving.

Pomersbach was arrested in August after crashing a four-wheel-drive vehicle into a skip bin and a pergola in City Beach, and then pushing a police officer through a window.

He was subsequently fined $3500 by the court and $10,000 by the Western Australian Cricket Association, which also barred him from representing his State until 2010, dependent on his response to counselling. He was allowed to continue playing with his club Gosnells.

This week Pomersbach turned up in court again to apply for an extraordinary licence to allow him to travel from his home in Scarborough to training and games with the club.

He claimed he’d been forced to catch taxis when his father couldn’t drive him.

Questioned by the magistrate why he didn’t use public transport the elite sportsman claimed it was inconvenient waiting for buses in Gosnells.

Anyway, he reckoned he did not know how to catch public transport, having not used it since school.

Given that every day tens of thousands of Perth commuters use trains and buses to travel to and from their destinations and that Scarborough and Gosnells are on main routes, Pomersbach’s case had little credibility.

The court should also have taken into account his mammoth earnings from his contracts with Australian cricket and the Indian Premier League that would have easily covered taxi fares.

The decision that has allowed this irresponsible young man back on the road confirms there are different rules for the rich and famous.


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