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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050125/80/fazi0.html

"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. "
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how can she have both hands on the wheel while eating an apple?
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emilystrange wrote:how can she have both hands on the wheel while eating an apple?
she might have a big mouth and strong teeth? :lol:
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it didn't say she was a horse..
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emilystrange wrote:it didn't say she was a horse..
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She had both hands on the wheel while driving, but what about her feet ?
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What a waste of rescources, I mean here they don't even bother dispatching all of that, even for murders, rapes and hi-jackings :roll:
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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.


That last sentence doesn't make sense.

That reads as when she chose to fight the fine in court THEN the police went and gathered the evidence (filming with helicopters & stuff). How? Did they have a time machine?

Of perhaps they mean
When she chose to fight the fine in court, police and public prosecutors said she was not in control and they were obliged to gather evidence.


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would it be a test case or something? so they had to get as much evidence or accident probability info etc as poss?

i know what i mean. sorry if that came out garbled.
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Hey! I can drive, talk to my cellphone, listen to music and wank at the same time :P
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COAT!!!!!
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HEY!!! Somebody knows that woman. Did you know it's nasty to joke about things likt that? <shakes head disapprovingly>
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emilystrange wrote:COAT!!!!!
Nah, without a coat!

:lol:
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rian wrote:
emilystrange wrote:COAT!!!!!
Nah, without a coat!

:lol:
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the coat just gets in that way while driving and you could loose control of the car :lol: :wink:
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Burn wrote:
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emilystrange wrote:COAT!!!!!
Nah, without a coat!

:lol:
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the coat just gets in that way while driving and you could loose control of the car :lol: :wink:
exactly. you got it, emeily, hmm... didn
't :twisted:
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