Driver earns second ticket for giving officer one-digit salute

[eljefe]

By The Canadian Press



PORT HOPE, Ont. - An Ontario driver has learned a hard lesson about respecting authority.


He was pulled over for speeding on Sunday on Highway 401 near Port Hope, Ont., after being tracked by a police helicopter. Police say the driver was stopped and ticketed for travelling 35 kilometres over the posted speed limit.


After he received the ticket and began to pull away, the driver raised his hand and flashed an obscene gesture toward provincial police Const. Bettina Schwarze.


She pulled the unidentified man over again and promptly gave him a $110 ticket.


The offence? Making an improper hand signal.


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0..._driver_salute

[Tarrantula]

HAHA NICE!

[Ntense_SpecV]

What the hell did the driver think was going to happen? Dumbass deserved it.

[flipstah]

BURN!

[2002civic]

haha what a moron

[GQBalla]

key note to self, don't flash a cop the bird....

what an idiot

[403Gemini]

Smart move by the cop ! Improper hand signal FTW!

[Masked Bandit]

Nice! That guy's gonna be steaming for weeks.

[TorqueDog]

LOL.

[Supa Dexta]

Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

I think i've maybe fingered somebody ... twice... in my entire 11 years of driving. If you do it frequently, maybe you should go to a rageaholics meeting.

[mx73someday]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

^^This. I imagine that's an easy one to defeat in court.

[Kona9]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

more so a lesson in respect, rather than power tripping.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

I've seen some dude in the back of a cab finger a cop who had pulled me over. The cop chased the cab down who eventually stopped, he dragged the guy out of the cab, cuffed him and threw him into the back of the squad car. Haha that was a bit excessive, IIRC there it's not agaisnt the law to act like a moron even when it should be.

[Cardinal]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

I don't think I'd ever flip off a cop because, chances are, if he pulled ME over.... I'm probibally the one in the wrong.... imo.

[Sharpie]

Originally posted by Supa Dexta
Why shouldn't you be allowed to? You all wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone else on the road that pissed you off.. Over stepping their power imo.

Apparently its around a $400 ticket to give someone the finger while driving.

[spikerS]

if had not stuck his hand _OUT_ of the window, she could not have given him the ticket, if he had just given the bird through the back window, nothing she could have done.

remember you can signal intentions with handsignals while driving. alot of the early classics like model T's didnt have signals stock, so hand signals were used.

[JordanAndrew]

Originally posted by Sharpie

Apparently its around a $400 ticket to give someone the finger while driving.

is that even in the traffic act?

[Sharpie]

Originally posted by JordanAndrew


is that even in the traffic act?

No clue, I was just told that by a rc after someone reported me for dangerous driving.

[Kennyredline]

I bet buddy's on his favorite car forum, whining about his ticket, and looking for advice on how to get out of it.