Motorist stopped by police for laughing .

A motorist was stopped by a police officer and questioned because he was laughing at the wheel.

Gary Saunders, a company director, was using a hands-free phone when
he burst out laughing at a joke told by his brother-in-law, who he was
talking
to.A few moments later he noticed a traffic officer flashing his lights
at him and gesticulating at him to stop his Renault.When Mr Saunders
got out of his car, the policeman told him: "Laughing while driving a
car can be an offence."The officer spent half an hour questioning his
suspect before reluctantly allowing him to carry on his way.However,
he took another hour-and-a-half of Mr Saunders' time by ordering him to
produce his licence and other documents at a police station.Mr
Saunders, the managing director of Spontex Workwear, of Liverpool, said
the
delay meant that he missed an important appointment."I couldn't believe
it when he told me I'd been pulled over for laughing," he said."I was
driving very safely in the Birkenhead Tunnel and took a call."He
said something funny and I was laughing - simple as that. I never took
my
eyes off the road and was in full control of the car."I definitely
wasn't speeding so I asked what the problem was and he told me I was
laughing too much."He
went on: "The officer accused me of throwing my head back in a
dangerous
way, which I denied since it is definitely not something I do."It
became a bit ridiculous when he wanted to know the colour of my hair as
I have alopecia and there isn't a hair on my head."When I pointed this
out he asked: 'What colour was your hair when you had some?'"It went
from ludicrous to unbelievable. He definitely had a bee in his bonnet
about something and I got the brunt of it."In
the end he reluctantly admitted that he had nothing he could accuse me
of,
but still required me to take my documents to the station."Supt Kevin
Hagger, of the Mersey Tunnels Police, said: "I wouldn't want to make a
comment as I don't know the full details."There
is no record of the incident in the system so it seems the gentleman
was just spoken to by the officer and the matter not taken any further."A
spokesman for the Association of British Drivers said: "This is a
shocking example of the police harassing innocent motorists simply
because they are an easy target."To suggest that a driver could
be prosecuted for laughing is ludicrous beyond belief. What next? Can
we expect to hear of people being stopped for sneezing or coughing
while they are at the wheel?"



You couldn't make it up could you !

I wasn't sure whether to put this post here or in the joke thread

lmao....there's nowt as queer as some folk !!

So when I pull a face for letting go a big one I risk getting pulled over by pold??? They need to get their acts together.