Street Smart Sukhumvit

Snooker star Stephen Hendry drunkenly drove a taxi along one of the most dangerous city roads in the world (guess which ROAD~!!!).

The Scot admitted he bribed a cabbie in Bangkok to let him get behind the wheel.

It happened on a boozy night out with fellow snooker star Mark Williams.

Hendry, 39, said it was "the craziest thing" he had done and "totally out of character".

Hendry, seven times world champion, said he was dared by Williams - both were drunk.

He said a dozen cabbies refused his offer of cash to let him drive.

But finally, one took his offer and he drove drunk along Sukhumvit Road - Bangkok's main thoroughfare and known as the world's busiest.

He said: "Mark Williams dared me to do it.

"We hailed about a dozen and they wouldn't let me, so we were creating an even worse traffic jam than you would find, even in Bangkok.

"Finally, we found a guy and paid him a few baht - the Thai currency - and he sat in the back and let me drive it back to the hotel. It sobered me up. I was concentrating harder than I ever have in any match.

"Looking back, I laugh but if anything had happened, my God, I don't know."

He also revealed in a Radio Scotland interview that his wife Mandy and his manager Ian Doyle have never got on since Doyle banned him from seeing her when he was a teenager.

Road safety campaigners yesterday slammed Hendry.

Neil Greig, director of the IAM Motoring Trust, said: "There is no excuse for drink driving. It should never be used as a challenge or some kind of life experience to try.

"He has been very lucky."

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