A St Leonards man caught Legionnaires Disease from the water in a cannabis smoking device, the Launceston Magistrates court heard on Friday.
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The evidence came in a submission by defence counsel Fran McCracken on behalf of 37-year-old Bradley James Judge.
Ms McCracken told Magistrate Simon Brown that cannabis and alcohol had played their part in his offending which included three counts of failing to appear in court after contracting the disease.
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Judge pleaded guilty to driving while exceeding 0.05 (0.113) in October 2015 and a further count of driving with an illicit drug (THC) in his oral fluid in March 2019.
The court heard that Judge had a good work record as a landscape gardener.
But Mr Brown said his record was not a good one.
"You have managed to delay this for a long time which has resulted in much time and resources being wasted," he said.
He said it was Judge's fourth drink driving offence but that it was not appropriate to send him to jail.
He sentenced him to two months jail which was suspended on the condition that he commit no imprisonable offence for two years. He also disqualified him from driving for nine months and fined him $900.