Brockville, ON � An American woman driver (did she ever have a chance?) has been charged with careless driving, not because she could care less but because she was driving the 416 while reading a book!
An officer spotted her car meandering along the four-lane highway and, upon pulling alongside, noticed she was enjoying a novel.
�I taught to meself, �dis woman is crazy�, when I first seen her dair,� reported Cst. Robert Garpike of the Ontario Provincial Police. �So I wonders, �How da hell am I�s going to git her to pull over?�
After a few minutes, Bettina Smallwood, 37, of Phoenix, N.Y., noticed Cst. Garpike�s cruiser and decided to stop.
�I was totally engrossed in the book. I mean it was a real page-turner. When I make bail, I�m going to recommend it to Oprah!�
The OPP have not released the title of the item that Smallwood perused at 100Km/h but speculation is that it may have been a pamphlet of metric conversions, US/Canadian currency exchange rates or even a French/American translator.
One anonymous speculator postulated, �If she didn�t know the language, how could she speak obnoxiously loud in our restaurants?�
