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Thu 9 Mar, 2006 01:53 pm
Driver Must Pay for Putting on Makeup
NORTH WALES, England (AP) - The roadside camera was supposed to catch speeders. Instead, a British woman is in trouble after she was videotaped with a compact in one hand and a brush or pencil in the other hand while driving on a hazardous road in North Wales.
A top North-Wales police official says he "can't imagine a more dangerous act than to be driving along the road, take your hands off the wheel and to put makeup on."
The 22-year-old was fined about $340 and given six points on her driver's license.
good, she should have been fined more than that.
I hope that they have a law or regulation to cover it. If people can be punished because important people want them to be without violating any written rule, then we are going back to a time before the Code of Hammurabi, no matter how justified the punishment.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too.
If there is already a rule, fine.
If she got in an accident and it turns out that's why, some sort of punishment is in order because of the accident of course.
But if she didn't actually hurt anyone and is in trouble just because of the cameras and what authority figures decided was smart or stupid... eek.
Dangerous driving, or driving without due care would certainly already appear on the statute books as a viable charge in the case of this stupid woman.
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