Man Gets Ticket for Driving While Eating a Cheeseburger

The driver was neither swerving, nor speeding according to reports I've read.  What was the distracted behavior?

Are all people on their cell phones distracted and swerving or speeding? Are all people not belted in distracted and swerving or speeding? The possibility is there. Distracted while eating is one hand on the wheel and the other on food, looking over to pick up food, and his reaction if the food is dropped in his lap, just to mention a few.

CONFESSION:

I once ate a half rack of Dreamland ribs while driving from Birmingham to Montgomery on I-65.  I did not get any sauce or meat fragments on my clothes,  I did get just a little on the steering wheel, but not enough to interfere with a secure grip with the one hand I was steering with. The plain white bread offered no difficulty of course.

I also once consumed two of the $1.00 cups of Wendy's excellent chili while driving on the open road.

I will not do any of that again, however, since it does indeed fit the description of "distracted driving."

I reserve the right to eat certain less complex "snack foods" while driving, since that can be done without distraction.

stupid is as stupid does..... how many people are killed in auto wrecks? the most dangerous thing most people do is get behind the will of a 3000 pound vehicle. stop the "its all about me" behavior, how long does it take to pull over and eat the burger? will your life be ruined if you don't answer that text? can you put your make up on before you leave home? 

This is Saturday night live material!

Another reason why I believe in bright line law, not laws that are overly subjective, to be interpreted by a LEO or prosecutor at their discretion,  Is sipping your coffee, listening to the radio, driving with children, glancing to a map or GPS  for directions, and such distracted driving if their is no evidence of actual distraction if the vehicle is traveling at a legal speed, not swerving , braking for no reason, or otherwise giving a reason for stopping the vehicle. 

Better not start that for donuts!

I was gonna say, I bet the cop had to put down his donut to make the arrest, but Hiflyer essentially beat me to it.

This might be relevant:

NEVER saw cop eating a donut. Never saw a cop eating anything in their car, or smoking, or drinking anything come to think of it. Wonder how I miss that stuff when apparently that's all they do. When they're not 'oppressing' people that is. I would say they're all hiding, but that can't be it either, because they're out there giving tickets to all those poor folks that aren't doing anything.

Next they'll have traffic signals that scan all driver's retinas and determines if he or she is paying enough attention to the road. 

Upon a violation it can disable the car for 10 minutes as a time out. 

But seriously. Seems to me like the officer used his own discretion when deciding to ticket the guy. Since there is no law against "eating and driving". 

And he wasn't ticketed for eating and driving. He was ticketed for distracted driving. It would be impossible to make individual laws against everything idiots do behind the wheel.

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You want to talk about distracted driving, I've seen plenty of them staring at their computer screens while driving down the road.  The donut thing was a joke.

There is a place called the Legal Bagel near the courthouse in Atlanta -- plenty of police, lawyers, judges and such eating donuts and Yiddish donuts, as well. 

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Well, I guess since they weren't speeding or weaving it's OK.

Was the motorcyclist speeding or weaving?