You say it best when you say nothing at all

Heavily bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and talk of dragons worked against Jay Danny Crawford, 22, when he was pulled over by police for a random breath test at Babinda last month.

The Cairns man returned a negative blood alcohol reading.

But suspicious police then asked him to get out of his car and Crawford’s unsteadiness on his feet sparked a fresh round of inquiries, the Innisfail Magistrates’ Court was told yesterday.

"They saw he was unsteady, his speech was slurred and when they asked him simple questions he took long and unusual pauses," police prosecutor Sgt Scott Moon recounted.

"He began talking about mystical dragons."

Crawford was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and possessing a dangerous drug.