A Villager has lost his driver’s license as the result of a New Year’s Eve motorcycle crash near Palmer Legends Country Club.
Malcolm Parnass, 72, of the Village of Summerhill, pleaded no contest this past week in Sumter County Court to a charge of driving under the influence. He will lose his driver’s license for six months, has been placed on probation for one year and has been ordered to perform 50 hours of community service.
He was found by a Sumter County sheriff’s deputies at about the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve in the roundabout on Buena Vista Boulevard near the country club.
Parnass told deputies he was riding his motorcycle when he “missed the curve of the roundabout and jumped the curb.” The first deputy on the scene noted that he could “smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage” and that Parnass had “extremely slurred speech.” Parnass also had difficulty retrieving his motorcycle’s registration and insurance information from his wallet “due to the poor dexterity of his fingers.”
The Washington native struggled through field sobriety exercises and finally announced, “It ain’t working.” He said he couldn’t finish the exercise. He provided breath samples that registered .144 and .143 blood alcohol content.