Cooper Couch was fined $750 for his January shenanigans in which he arranged road cones in central Dunedin which allowed people to bypass a breath-testing checkpoint.
The Dunedin District Court heard this week the 45-year-old roofer had no such reprieve when he was stopped by police in Middleton Rd on June 29.
Couch recorded a breath-alcohol level of 558mcg — more than twice the legal limit.
The next night he doubled down.
The court heard Couch was pulled over in Gordon Rd for travelling 79kmh in a 50kmh zone.
This time his level was 851mcg.
He was just picking up his uncle from the pub, Couch explained.
On July 13, just two weeks after his first drunken transgression, he committed his third — on the same road.
Police saw him make an abrupt turn into a dead-end street to avoid a routine stop.
Court documents described officers finding him outside the vehicle eating a "freshly made ice cream".
Couch was arrested after it was discovered he was on bail, and had agreed not to drive.
And it got worse.
A blood sample showed the defendant was driving at almost double the drink-drive limit.
The court heard the incidents were book-ended by two episodes of alcohol-fuelled violence.
The first came in May when Couch stayed at a Wanaka Airbnb with his partner.
After downing several bourbon and cokes, the defendant argued with the woman then smashed crockery, ripped out a light fitting, smashed a table and smeared his blood across the walls, causing nearly $10,000 of damage.
The homeowner said it was "gut-wrenching to think someone would come into their house ... and treat it like a battleground", Judge Jim Large said.
The final incident came in July when he was kicked out of his central Dunedin home.
Before he left, Couch ripped a cabinet door off its hinges, smashed a laptop, kicked and punched holes in the wall, destroyed a television and shattered a window.
Counsel Brendan Stephenson said his client accepted he had an alcohol issue.
"You really must get it that you can’t drink because when you drink you offend and when you offend you’ll end up in jail," the judge said.
Drinking in combination with a head injury was also "a recipe for disaster", he told Couch.
The defendant was convicted of six charges and sentenced to two months’ community detention and 18 months’ intensive supervision and ordered to pay $3441 reparation.
He was banned from driving for 28 days with alcohol-interlock provisions to follow.
