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liner
03-07-2011, 03:09 PM
That must have been one real interesting book....what a dumb ***!!



NORTH PERTH – A 68-year-old man reading paperwork while driving with two young children buckled in car seats in the back seat of his car faces a charge of careless driving.

A Perth County Ontario Provincial Police officer stopped the man at about 1 p.m. last Thursday after the officer saw the man reading what appeared to be a book while driving on Highway 23 in Atwood.

In the back seat of the car were two young children buckled up in car seats, said Const. Kees Wijands of Perth County OPP.

The officer was conducting radar patrol on the highway when the officer saw a northbound car weaving in and out of traffic, striking the gravel shoulder and veering into the incoming lane.

Police say the driver was too absorbed in his task that he did not stop his car even though the officer had his emergency light and sirens on. The driver eventually stopped a kilometre away.

bikerboy
03-07-2011, 03:23 PM
haha ya i read that this morning too

ralph
03-07-2011, 04:05 PM
Downtown Atwood...so much to see I'm surprised he would need to read a book!

end of the road
03-09-2011, 08:31 PM
Somebody here in Red Lake got charged with driving with the interior light on. They just bought a cat and were driving home with it and it puked, the passenger quickly turned the interior light on and whamo.

How's them apples?

bikerboy
03-09-2011, 08:32 PM
never heard of it being illegal to drive with interior light on, what is that charge called?

end of the road
03-09-2011, 09:05 PM
Driving with your interior light on. I think.

Mr Bee
03-10-2011, 06:01 AM
Downtown Atwood...so much to see I'm surprised he would need to read a book!

He was reading to the kids in the back seat.