Chad Kroeger may be a rockstar, but he’s not untouchable.
The Nickelback frontman was ordered to pay a $600 fine as a part of his drunk driving sentence by a BC judge.
“Don’t drink and drive,” Kroeger told Canadian Press outside the courtroom after he was sentenced. “I don’t condone drinking and driving. I don’t think you should do it. Everybody makes mistakes.”
“I don’t condone drinking and driving,” he said before sliding into a car driven by an unidentified man. “I don’t think you should do it. Everybody makes mistakes.”
And Chad might want to give his tour bus driver a call since he’s also been told not to drive for a year.
His lawyer, Marvin Stern, reminded reporters that his client had been acquitted of impaired driving earlier.
It was more a matter of a technical convention for having a blood-alcohol reading over 0.08 as opposed to how he was driving and behaving on the night in question or, colloquially, whether he was drunk or not.” Mr. Stern said he felt that was “an important distinction.”
In June 2006 Kroeger was pulled over by cops for speeding and found to have a blood alcohol reading almost twice the legal limit.