COMEDIAN Mark Banks’ aggression towards a policeman offering to drive him home led to an arrest for drunken driving, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. Banks pleaded not guilty to the main charge of drunken driving as well as not guilty to an alternative charge of driving with a blood-alcohol count of 0,13%. The limit is 0,05%. The hearing was postponed to October 26 for the testimony of the doctor who drew Banks’ blood for analysis. Constable Christopher Skippers told the court he had stopped Banks on the Western Boulevard in the early hours of October 10 last year, after noticing the erratic manner in which he kept changing lanes. Asked if he had been drinking, Banks told the policeman he had been drinking at a party, and then became aggressive. Skippers said he offered to drive Banks home but, instead of accepting this, Banks had an angry outburst in which he accused Skippers of being more concerned about drunken driving than the drug lords in the city. Skippers said Banks’ attitude induced him to arrest him for drunken driving. He said Banks had to steady himself against his car when ordered out of the vehicle, and that he had appeared to be strongly under the influence of liquor. Defence counsel Mark Kenny told the court Banks would testify that he had told Skippers he was on his way home from work, and had not been to a party – Sapa