A 21-year-old timber engineer was caught travelling through town with laughing gas in his car.
Rudolfs Simkuns appeared at Lynn Magistrates’ Court on Thursday charged with possession of a Class C drug, and pleaded guilty to the offence.
He was travelling along London Road in Lynn on January 27 when the police pulled him over due to his manner of driving.
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He told officers he had recently inhaled laughing gas, and three canisters of the nitrous oxide were found during a search of the vehicle.
At the time, he accepted they were his but offered no explanation as to why he had them.
Simkuns, of Tinkers Drove in Wisbech, told magistrates: “I was with another occupant.
“They were actually his, but they were in my car, so it was my problem.
“That is all I have got to say.”
He informed the court that he works as a timber engineer and lives with his parents.
Magistrates fined Simkuns £112, while he will also pay £85 in court costs and a £45 victim surcharge.