| Yep, I guess theoretically you can be nicked for doing anything that means you don't have both your hands and both your feet free to control the car. This means swigging water from a bottle, lighting a ciggy, fumbling for a CD in the glovebox, obviously eating anything.
As Antonye says, the stupidity is not that the police spent so much money raising sufficient evidence - I can see that once somebody stands up and says 'this is stupid - I'm going to court' they have to go through all this rigmarole. The real stupidity is in the judgement of the plod that nicked her. Surely, unless eating the apple was causing her driving to go to pieces all but the most overzealous idiot would've just let her off with a caution. Rewind a week or so to a plonker in an Elise who got let off with a caution for coming round a bend sideways on the Cat and Fiddle almost into the path of an oncoming patrol car. Hmmmm would the apple munching cause driving as ludicrous as that? I doubt it.
I would imagine she probably got a bit lippy at being pulled for such a trivial thing and the PC decided to exercise his powers just because he could. Plonker.
I feel sorry for all the police in traffic who, let's face it do a damned difficult job at times. Last week, my wife's uncle was witness to a head on collision near Milton Keynes. A car overtook a long line of traffic, inexplicably failing to notice an oncoming minibus which it hit head on. The car driver was killed instantly, all the passengers in the minibus were trapped. My wife's uncle was trying to free some trapped passengers when the minibus went up in flames, killing everyone inside. The traffic cops were amongst the first on this grizzly scene, having to deal with the aftermath.
Imagine doing a depressing job like that, then coming home to see on the news that one of your 'colleagues' had tarred you all with the pillock brush again.  | 
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