Posted on 01/24/2005 9:33:54 PM PST by Eurotwit
LONDON (Reuters) - Police called in a spotter plane, helicopter and video-equipped patrol car to help convict a woman who ate an apple while driving to work, newspapers have reported.
After nine court hearings and a trial lasting more than two hours, nursery nurse Sarah McCaffery was fined 60 pounds on Monday when a court upheld a police decision to give her a penalty ticket.
Police used the plane, helicopter and car to film road conditions on the route she took in Tyneside, northeast England, after officers pulled her over in December 2003.
"It is a joke they put so much effort into this," McCaffery, 23, told the Sun newspaper on Tuesday. "You would think they had better things to do."
She said she had both hands on the wheel of her Ford Ka and was driving safely.
But police and public prosecutors said she was not in control and they were obliged to gather evidence when she chose to fight the fine in court.
Another nasty felon (feloness?) brought to justice!
No kidding, I'm with you on this one.
They really don't have enough to do in England apparently. Break into someones house and you're the victim, they're the criminal. England is backwards.
"She said she had both hands on the wheel of her Ford Ka and was driving safely."
That's it! Driving while impersonating a suckling pig!"
I'm so glad she took them to court. Maybe they'll think twice before making a fool of themselves again.
Check this out:
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/sportka.wmv
Ordinary people must behave in ways that the state demands or else pay the penalty. That is the law, and it is a right and just law. Deviations and deviants will be punished.
I can only shake my head in disbelief.
Bump!
It's illegal to eat an apple in a Ka?
It's a Kar. Eithout the 'R'!
Ah, as in Boston, where they pahk the cah.
well lets see how cost benificial this little episode was for the spotter plane it would about about Crew cost $580 Fuel & oil $ 596 Dir. maint. labor & material $ 268 per hour estimated it depeds on the type of spotter plane so a estimated total of about 1400 dollars for the helicoptor it would be about 1600- 2000 dolalrs per hour the patrol car would be about 100 dollars per hour so it would be at the minimun 3 000 dollars (1,597.92 british pounds)of operating cost to fine a woman $112.61 (60 british pounds)for eating a freaking apple
the stupidity of socialist nanny state liberals knows no bounds and is only matched by the stupidity o f the sheeple that keeps voting these morons into office year after year after year after year
It takes a brit LEO to really define donut-scarfing-loafer.
It's just a hunch, but I'd bet she had big t*ts or a short skirt on. 5 to 1 they were scoping babes by chopper.
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