http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100128/tuk-stunned-driver-fined-for-blowing-his-45dbed5.html

He would have been in jail if it was a sneze !!

If the story is true, as is reported (and I expect that it is a big IF) then what is going on.

I give up.

There has to be more to it than that?

i best theres more to that story......

Can be done for driving without due care and attention if you're not looking at the road while moving, but that doesn't really apply if parked, BUT you have to have the engine off to use a mobile without getting a ticket iirc so I suspect the policeman used that logic in this case.

I'm guessing that when the prosecutors see all the press interest it might quietly go away. The letter sounds like a boilerplate "let the courts make the decision/clarify the law/facts" fob off.

A case for common sence... the gentleman blew his nose when it was safe to do so, rather than waiting for it to build up into a distracting blob which he may well sneeze all over the windscreen at an inapropriate moment....

because there are no other, more pressing issues for the pigs to be dealing with, as the PCSO's that we are all paying for are out doing half their job for them.

second to that^^^

Well, he *claims* he was blowing his nose. Perhaps the policeman thought, rightly or wrongly, that there was not a nose involved?

So does this mean that when someone who smokes while driving, drink coffee, increase the volume of the stereo is driving without due care and attention?

Damn!!!

A couple of months ago, someone was getting back home at about 11 at night and decided to roll a cigarette while driving as the road was clear hence decided to do 25mph instead of the usual 30-35. 200 yards down the road, a PO was trying to get him speeding with a radar gun which he got away with cause of rolling the cigarette.