Next time you want to toss a lit marijuana joint out your car, you might want to think twice. On Monday morning, the Saanich Police Department fined a BC driver for throwing a lit joint out their car window.
The Saanich PD Traffic unit handed the driver a $900 ticket for the offence.
Well you can't say we didn't warn you.SPD posted on both their FB and Twitter accounts about dropping lit cigarettes out of your car windows. This driver did not listen 🙄To make it worse they were smoking a marijuana cigarette while driving.
Bad start to Monday! #yyjtraffic pic.twitter.com/LOqhmLLECh— Saanich Police Traffic Safety Unit (@SPD_Traffic) July 29, 2019
The driver was fined $575 for dropping a burning substance, $253 for speeding in a playground zone, and $109 for failing to update their address.
According to the tweet, it appears the incident occurred around 9:53 a.m. in the 4900 block of Cordova Bay Road.
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“Well you can’t say we didn’t warn you.SPD posted on both their FB and Twitter accounts about dropping lit cigarettes out of your car windows” reads the tweet.
“This driver did not listen 🙄To make it worse they were smoking a marijuana cigarette while driving”.
The ticket states that the driver violated B.C.’s Wildfire Act. Under the Act, dropping, releasing or mishandling a burning substance constitutes a $575 fine.
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