Ashes to ashes, dust to bust

“From Staten Island Advance |


Cigarette ash flick costs Islander $240 in N.J.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
ADVANCE STAFF REPORT
A New Springville man is irate after being hit with a $240 ticket by a New Jersey state trooper for flicking cigarette ash out of his car window on Sunday afternoon on Route 80 , according to a published report.

"It's ridiculous," John Nestor, 40, told the New York Post. "Do people get summonses for walking down the street with a cigarette? Where do they flick their ashes? Are they going to put ashtrays on every street corner?"

A state trooper began trailing Nestor, as he was driving home from the Poconos with his wife and twin 12-year-old sons, and pulled him over near Allamuchy.

"He said, 'You were littering,'" said Nestor, who works as a telecommunications operations manager for CBS. Nestor thought his kids might have thrown something out of the window. "Then he said, 'Your cigarette ash.'"

Nestor received a summons for "Littering from M.V. [motor vehicle]," and lists "ashes" as the description of offense.

Sgt. Gerald Lewis, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police, was surprised to hear Nestor's version of the story.

"That would be littering -- but I find it hard to believe it's just the ashes," he told the Post. "More than likely it was an entire cigarette, which is a fire hazard. If the gentleman is going to contest it, then all the specifics are going to come out in the trooper's testimony. I don't believe this gentlemen is telling you the whole story."

Nestor plans to fight the charge in court.”

“i thought this thread was gonna be about boobs growing after death like fingernails.”

“WTF?


slowing stepping away from sacco the wacko”

“Maybe he dumped the contents of his ashtray???”

“Duh, Jo-ohn, that's why they put ashtrays in cars, ya big dumbass!”

“nope did not bump

only ashes.”

“geobeet, I don't think they put ashtrays in cars anymore.”

“I don't have one in mine.”

“You can have mine, Bit!”

“You're a real pal, Treebeard”

“I never understood why they put ashtrays in cars anyway. It's obvious from observing any traffic intersection the U.S. that most smokers consider the world to be their friggin' ashtray anyway.”

“I don't have an ashtray in my car, but wish I did because they're handy for storing change and stuff.

TYhrowing butts out of cars is a major cause of boating accident. They fly into the towed boat and the wind turns them into a tiny fireball that ignites the fibreglass, apparently.”

“lol at my thread name

pretty darn good :)”

“You're sharp as a tack, mapleleeff!”