Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
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> The article makes it sound like the cops were silly to arrest her for
> this, but making a left hand turn while holding an apple in one hand is=

> dangerous to everyone else nearby.

Because they drive on the other side, in the UK the left turn is just
that -- no crossing of traffic lanes.
yD
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/arti...397837,00.html
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> Woman charged with holding an apple while driving
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> Martin Wainwright
> Tuesday January 25, 2005 The Guardian
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> A woman tempted by an apple while driving set off a Kafkaesque chain of=

> events, a court heard yesterday, including aerial photography by a
> police helicopter, nine preliminary court hearings, and a trial lasting=

> more than 2 hours.
> Unlike Eve, nursery nurse Sarah McCaffery, 23, had not taken a bite out=

> of the forbidden fruit when she was stopped by PC Lee Butler on
> December 4 last year, but she was holding it in her right hand whilst
> swinging her Ford Ka into a left turn.
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> Apple or not, the manoeuvre at a junction in Hebburn, South Tyneside,
> free of pedestrians and other traffic, was carried out "perfectly" said=

> her solicitor, Geoffrey Forrester, but it was spotted by a patrol car
> parked nearby.
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> PC Butler pounced, initially because he thought that Ms McCaffery's
> apple was a mobile phone. He then issued the nurse with a =A330 fixed
> penalty notice as part of a Northumbria police drive against food or
> drink at the wheel.
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> Ms McCaffery was found not to have been in proper control of her car by=

> South Tyneside magistrates yesterday, but Mr Forrester said that her
> real offence had been to fight the case.
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> "This is all about trying to crush her because she is the one who stood=

> up and said 'This is silly'," he told the court. "The police service
> and the Crown Prosecution Service do not like to be told they are
> silly.
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> "Nothing illustrates the nonsense of this case more than the resources
> that have been thrown at it." The magistrates heard that after Ms
> McCaffery had the "temerity" to challenge the fixed penalty, police
> used a helicopter to film the junction. A sergeant and constable in a
> patrol car made a video.
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> Mr Forrester claimed that offences such as drug-dealing, burglary or
> assault on children would not have been lavished with such attention.
> He added that Ms McCaffery was of "impeccable character".
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> Prosecutor Chris Kay, whose evidence included a second video taken from=

> the helicopter as well as aerial photographs, said that the proceedings=

> had cost =A3425, excluding the aerial work. The court heard that the
> helicopter had not been sent specifically to film the junction, after
> Ms McCaffery's decision to go to court, but had taken the video and
> photographs in the course of another job in the area.
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> Ms McCaffery, of Hebburn, was fined =A360 plus =A3100 costs at the 10th=

> court hearing in the case. The chairman of the bench, Ken Buck, said:
> "We accept that there are times when you can drive with one hand, but,
> in holding an apple while negotiating a left hand turn, we consider you=

> not to have been in full control."
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> A spokesman for Northumbria police said costs did not have any bearing
> on decisions to prosecute. "The defendant chose for the matter to go to=

> a court trial rather than accept a fixed penalty notice, so we were
> obliged to gather all appropriate evidence to present our case."