Posted on 03/05/2009 8:04:11 AM PST by BGHater
When Gary Sanders was pulled over by police he was sure he had done nothing wrong.
The company director was obeying the speed limit and not driving dangerously.
But to his astonishment he was told he had been stopped for excessive laughing.
Mr Sanders had been talking on a hands-free kit and was chuckling at what his friend had said.
But the officer who ordered him to stop at the exit to the Mersey Tunnel told him: ‘Laughing while driving a car can be an offence.’
If that had been the end of the matter then Mr Sanders, 47, would probably have laughed the whole thing off.
But he subjected him to a 35-minute grilling, with questions about everything from his ethnic group to details of distinguishing scars on his body.
And despite not being charged with an offence, he still had to waste a further 90 minutes of his time producing his driving licence and other documents at a police station.
Due to the delay Mr Sanders,the managing director of Liverpool-based Spontex Workwear,missed an important business appointment.
He said:'I couldn't believe it when he told me I'd been pulled over for for laughing.I was driving very safely in the Birkenhead Tunnel and took a call from a friend on my hand-free phone.
'He said something funny and I was laughing-simple as that.I never took my eyes off the road and was in full control of the car.
'Then I noticed the police car flashing its lights and the officer signalling me to pull over.I definitely wasn't speeding so I asked what the problem was and he told me I was laughing too much.
'The officer accused me of throwing my head back in a dangerous way, which I denied since it is definitely not something I do.
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Charlie X
It’s stories from England like these, that no matter how bad we have here in the USSA, I’m glad we revolted from the crown.
Justifiable homicide.
This officer will see a rather large number of drivers laughing over the next few months - all laughing at him.
Socialism and stupidity(But I repeat myself).
At one time it was unusual ghost stories, now the horror is real.
Coming to a town near you:(
I know of a professor using the university’s motor pool car that got turned in once (as in someone called to complain) that he was laughing too much. He & his passenger were driving to a meeting & were apparently having too much fun for the complainer’s druthers. People can be very weird out there.
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