A Revelstoke man who crashed his car through several fences while driving drunk pleaded guilty in court last week.

Curtis E. McPherson was given a $1,500 fine, a one year driving prohibition and one year probation for the incident that took place Friday, Aug. 15, at around 10 p.m.

Crown prosecutor Angela Ross told the court that McPherson was found passed out at the wheel of his truck after he drove it through two yards on Humbert Street, damaging fences in the process.

Neighbours woke him up and RCMP and BC ambulance were called. When RCMP attended to McPherson, he was visibly drunk. He was arrested and taken to the detachment, where he gave two breath samples of more than 0.19 almost 2.5 times the legal limit.

McPherson told the court he drank six strong beers at a friend's house when he decided to head home earlier than planned.

"It was a screwed up decision I made because of the booze," he said. "The drinking, it doesn't help the decision making at all."

Judge Mayland McKimm said the Crown was being "more than generous" with their sentence offer of only a fine and driving prohibition.

"If there had been someone on the sidewalk when you went careening across it, you'd be going to a federal penitentiary," he told McPherson. "This is not rolling through a stop sign. This is a very serious incident."

Still, he agreed with the Crown's recommended sentence, but added a period of probation that includes mandatory counselling. "The purpose of the probation is entirely to help you," McKimm said.

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Ive really enjoyed two end-of-season events, both of which have been organised by the same families for a long time.

The Nolan family has run South of England for 40 years, doing great service to the sport. They continue to make improvements, and have good arenas for dressage and jumping, and an excellent cross-country course.

The Sturgis familys Dauntsey Park is another to have been going for a long time. I remember falling off Charisma at the final fence in the early 1980s when about to win the advanced!

When I walked the Dauntsey course I thought, great, its nice to have a track with lots of natural features hedges, ditches, banks, water crossings and a lovely, old-fashioned feel.

So I was somewhat surprised to hear a number of people grumbling.

I guess you always look at a course through the eyes of the horse you are sitting on, and I did have two very experienced rides this time, but last year I took a first-time intermediate there and thought it was fair.

The difficult fences did offer options to get horses round. Not all intermediate tracks can or should be easy ones, and I thought it encouraged horses to be bold and forward. The 1,000 first prize in the open intermediate was a great initiative and drew people to the competition. If you wanted to win it, you had to take the direct routes, which is right.

Im not sure why the bank didnt ride very well. Perhaps a ditch in front would help horses get up in the air?

But it does beg the question of course-design. Have we got so far away from natural obstacles that riders have forgotten how to ride them and horses arent trained to jump them? I understand that it is often more financially economical to use portable fences, particularly on a track which lacks natural undulations and features. However, boxes in the middle of fields arent cross-country as I think of it. Using the features the land offers helps slow people down without resorting to unnecessary twists and turns.

Courses ask the same old questions over and over again now the skinny fence in or out of water, the corner with a turn to a skinny, the use of brush on absolutely everything. And skinnies themselves: we are all used to them, so whats next? Do designers make them ever narrower and to be jumped on even more of an angle?

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Fence jumping at Australian music festivals are a common occurrence but recent examples of organised mass gatecrashing has at least one security firm calling for an overhaul.

It was all for one and one for all when large groups jumped fences at two electronic dance music festivals in the past month.

Groups at the Listen Out festival in Sydney and Perth rushed and jumped perimeter fences to avoid paying, leaving event security guards helpless.

Fence jumping has occurred at Australian festivals for years, and both successful and unsuccessful attempts are now regularly posted online from events such as Future Music Festival, Soundwave and Big Day Out.

Fuzzy Events insist fence-jumping at festivals is nothing new: Listen Out Sydney 2014. Photo: Annabel Manning

In Sydney on September 27, a group was filmed charging the temporary fencing at Centennial Park en masse. The video was later uploaded to social media. The jump left a 29-year-old security guard with a ruptured spleen and internal bleeding after a person landed on him.

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Fuzzy Events, the presenter of Listen Out, said mass group fence-jumping is by no means a new trend and that it comes in and out of fashion.

"We assume it is likely at every event ... and we keep our eyes and ears open for groups organising on social media," director of Fuzzy Events John Wall said.

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