A convicted North Albury drug supplier facing jail over repeat disqualified driving has admitted he'd be "mad as a cut snake" to get behind the wheel again.
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This came after magistrate Richard Funston warned the 31-year-old not to jeopardise a chance he could serve his sentence in the community.
"If you drove between now and (the sentence date of) October 14 or committed another offence ... you're walking yourself into jail," he said, to which Josh Beau Sweeney made his "cut snake" analogy.
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"Well," Mr Funston replied, "I've seen people as mad as a cut snake.
"On the face of it, Mr Sweeney, you're facing a jail sentence, you know that."
When he heard that, Sweeney slumped in his chair and dropped his head towards his knees.
Earlier, Mr Funston expressed his dismay at Sweeney getting previous convictions and disqualifications for driving when he was banned, only to go out a short time later and do it all again.
"That was such a complete thumbing of the nose at authorities," he said.
Mr Funston told Sweeney that "at best" he would be getting an intensive corrections order, which was a sentence of custody served in the community.
"It's my stuff-up," Sweeney said in reply to the threat of jail from Mr Funston. "And I have to cop it".
Sweeney - who in March of 2015 was jailed in the District Court for supplying five grams of amphetamine and knowingly taking part in the supply of 9.4 grams of ice - pleaded guilty to charges including second offence disqualified driving, driving with an illicit drug in his blood and driving while licence cancelled.
He was detected driving when his licence remained disqualified, until mid-June, on April 1 and then April 17.
The drug-driving incident happened on November 4, when Sweeney's car was found stopped in the middle of the road in Mutsch Street, Lavington.
Police saw Sweeney slumped in the driver's seat and it took them "several bangs" on the window and yelling to make him wake.
He was taken first to the Albury police station, then to Albury hospital for a blood test.
Police said Sweeney was unable to maintain concentration "and continually went in and out of sleep".
"I was driving around catching up with a mate," he had told police. "I got tired so I stopped to have a sleep."
He had MDMA, cannabis and amphetamine in his system.
When he was pulled over by police in North Albury on April 1, he was surprised he was still disqualified.
"I thought it had finished."
