No Laughing! Driver Pulled Over and Questioned for Laughing…
Be safe…no laughing!
We all know that we have to strap ourselves in when driving. We can’t eat or drink when driving, no chance of using a phone and if you want to read a book behind the wheel then you might as well drive straight to the jail cell – but one motorist was pulled over in Liverpool for LAUGHING?
The motorist was shown the flashing blue and red lights, pulled over and questioned by police officers for driving under the influence of laughter.
The driver in question was Gary Saunders who was chatting to his brother-in-law over a hands-free mobile phone when he was told a joke and broke out in hysterics.
That’s a crime apparently…
Little did he know that the police that were on his tail were offended by the jovial spirits of the man and signalled him to pull over to the side of the road for a questioning session.
When he pulled over the policeman approached Mr Saunders and actually said “laughing while driving a car can be an offence.”
Mr Saunders was questioned for around half an hour which was a bit of problem for the company director of Spontex Workwear as he claimed that due to the questioning he missed an important appointment.
Mr Saunders was asked to show his license and other documents at a police station – all for laughing whilst driving…
“I couldn’t believe it when he told me I’d been pulled over for laughing. I was driving very safely in the Birkenhead Tunnel and took a call,” clamed Mr Saunders.
“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.”
No record – waste of time…
However, the incident wasn’t taken to be too serious by the police officer as Supt Kevin Hagger of the Mersey Tunnels Police has said, “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.”
However, Mr Saunders won’t be forgetting the incident too quickly as according to him it went from weird to surreal in an instant.
“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.”

















