"A pub landlord was booked for not being in control of his car when police spotted him eating an ice cream at the wheel."
"Mr Maltby said he had no idea he was breaking the law and was stumped when the officer pulled him over on Sunday and asked him if he knew what he had done wrong."
"I stopped, thinking he was trying to get past, and I was surprised when he pulled up behind me."
DOH!!!!!!!!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/375340...m
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Maybe the fine was for him not wearing his seatbelt, and the ice-cream 'angle' is his excuse!
Mmmm - strawberry sauce.
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I was following a Nova earler this week and the driver was eating a choc ice at 8 o'clock in the morning - presumably breakfast - I was quite keen to avoid him when he got out of the queue for the roundabout and shot off down the main road at 60mph + steering one handed with a gob full of ice cream.
Incidentally the local ice cream man was found dead last week in his van covered in chocolate sauce and nuts - The inquest concluded that he'd topped himself......
I'll get me coat.
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LOL + groan
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Acknowledgments to Frank Carson
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Dangerous things, ice creams.
Many moons ago SWMBO took delivery on a new Chevette on a Saturday, on the Sunday afternoon she took me for a spin, got two miles down the road when someone pulled out in front of her. She stopped suddenly, sadly the guy behind didn't, he got out of his car removing the remains of a ice cream cornet from his shirt front. Chevette was a write off, unfortunately he could afford the ice cream but not his insurance premiums, but thereby hangs another tale......
Cockle
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There is a steadily growing legal anomally in the kind of things you can do in a car.
Mobile phones, shavers, Yorkie bars, road maps and now ice creams are illegal.
Yet similarly distracting activities like inserting tape cassetes, tuning the radio, navigating with GPS are apparently perfectly OK.
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Are those activities legal, or just less obvious?
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Any activity which means you are not in full control of the vehicle is illegal, it does not need to be explicitly defined in law. It isn't the activity itself, just the fact that you do not have full control. Reminds me of when my father dropped a lighted cig in his lap. Not recommended.
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I still remember cringing in the back as my dad drove off when I was a teenager. He used to be able to reverse off the drive onto a main road and thence onto a side road opposite the house, and drive up the side road, steeply uphill, with the sun directly ahead, negotiating a tight left/right bend, all whilst putting his seatbelt on and filling & lighting his pipe.
The relevance of the sun's position is that the pipe smoke left a layer of muck on every surface including the inside of the windscreen. Visibility in those conditions was roughly the distance from eyeball to windscreen.
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