''You expressed to the report writer you were unwilling to address your behaviour in any way, preferring to go to prison,'' he told the Dunedin District Court yesterday.
''That's an appalling attitude, Mr Te Rauna. What you're saying is you don't care about the law, you don't care about drinking and driving ... You will, and too bad for everybody else.''
Police spotted the defendant get into his ute outside Milton's White Horse Inn and followed him along Union St.
The circumstances, the judge said, were ''generally unremarkable''.
That was until police activated their lights and sirens.
Te Rauna stopped but, rather than wait for the officers, he got out of the vehicle and popped into a nearby restaurant.
Initially he stood at the counter and refused to accompany police to the station.
Eventually he acquiesced.
After a breath test gave a reading of 653mcg — more than twice the legal limit — he made his audacious comments about his long record of drink-driving.
Judge Flatley said it was not just those convictions blotting Te Rauna's ''lengthy history''.
Despite that, he had been assessed as a low risk of reoffending and harm to others.
''I'm not sure I accept that, given your history. If you continue to drink and drive you are a real risk to others because you put everyone on the road at risk,'' the judge said.
Defence counsel Andy Belcher explained his client's dismissive comments to Probation might have been the result of persistent pain he suffered.
He argued a prison term of three months would be enough but Judge Flatley jailed Te Rauna for five months.
The defendant's attitude to rehabilitation meant counselling post-detention had not been recommended, but Judge Flatley imposed six months of conditions to run from Te Rauna's release.
''I have to try everything for the sake of everyone on the road,'' he said.
