Woman Gets Fined $200 for Eating a Banana While Stuck in Traffic

[Miles Archer]

http://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/woman-gets-fined-200-eating-banana-while-stuck-traffic/012816

A U.K. woman who ate a banana while stopped in traffic in her car has been fined £145.00 (approximately $206 USD) for “not having proper control of the vehicle while driving.”

Christchurch resident Elsa Harris actually received the ticket last year, when she “pulled down a little bit of banana skin momentarily and carried on eating and driving” while stopped at a roundabout, and was quickly corralled by an unmarked police car.

Harris told ITV last year that she had already partially peeled the fruit before driving off to work, but was observed “peeling a banana whilst driving with no hands on the steering wheel, risking the safety of other road users,” according to Dorset police.

Harris was given a £100 fine and option of receiving three points on her license or the completion of a driver safety course, but chose to challenge the case in court. Later, Harris decided to plead guilty on the advice of an attorney, and subsequently received the license points, as well as a bigger fine.

[Skittles]

1. sounds like it was for driving without hands on the steering wheel

[rug]

2. She's going to be a recidivist.

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2015-06-29/its-bananas-motorist-astonished-for-being-fined-for-eating-the-fruit-in-traffic-jam/

[LiberalElite]

3. I thought this was satire -

because of "thedailymeal.com" But it isn't.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I wonder if she'll a-peel it?