- A Florida driver was cited for holding a phone she lacks.
- The $116 ticket cites handheld device use while driving.
- Deputy claimed he saw the phone in her right hand.
Florida has no shortage of unusual driving laws, and some of them seem to create as much confusion as they prevent. Sometimes the debate centers on license plate frames. Other times it is about so-called ‘super speeding’. And in this story, they’re about driving and texting.
It turns out that all of these rules are ones that Florida police struggle to enforce uniformly. Occasionally, they even ticket folks for holding phones with hands that don’t even exist in the first place.
A woman at the center of this fiasco received a ticket in Lake Worth Beach for using a handheld wireless device while driving. According to the deputy, she was holding her phone in her right hand. That’s important because there’s just one problem with that observation. She doesn’t have a right hand…