Driver fights ticket for using cellphone he claims was only a hash brown

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.A Connecticut man claims he's been wrongly accused of distracted driving, insisting police mistook a McDonald's hash brown for his cellphone.

Stiber, 45, contends that Westport Police Department Cpl. Shawn Wong made an honest mistake and mixed up the driver's black cellphone with a hash brown wrapped in white McDonald's paper he was eating. And that's what Stiber and his lawyer did, trying their case before Judge Maureen Dennis on Friday. Stiber has already spent $1,000 to fight this“I have done nothing but criminal defense for 21 years and I have a very sensitive nose for" lying clients, Stiber's lawyer John Thygerson told NBC News on Tuesday."I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that I firmly believe my client 100 percent.

The officer testified last week that he's sure Stiber was speaking into a phone and not eating breakfast.

Ha! That could be right!

He won’t get off. It’s distracted driving meaning they can get you for changing the radio station if they want to.

Golden Arches stock up on hash browns tomorrow. cravings

Did he eat his phone?

hanburger334

Eating can be distracted driving. The way I understand it is,anything that distracts you while driving IS distracted driving.

He’s going to fry for this one.

Sounds legit.

BlakePriceTSN Because they both taste about the same. Case dismissed .

Wow. That happens all the time! Lol

I hate when that happens.

😂😂😂

Eating while driving is distracted driving!!

Holy shit. Did McDs burn his hasbrown for it to be black? Wtf y he eat it then? What is wrong with this world that a man can't have a black burnt hash brown near his head area w/o being treated like a criminal. Bet if it was a French toast stick he'd be accused of being from 🇨🇦

Next week's headline. Man Eats Cellphone, thought it was a McDonald's hash brown

runawaycar I don’t normally eat my phone or hold my hash brown to my ear.

That’s a smart idea a iPhone that looks like hash browns😱

Better a phone than a gun. Just sayin'

The ticket is distracted driving and is not limited to the use of cell phones. It includes eating, the radio, and any other number of ‘distractions’

lindsaydenise8

Weren't they a little hash about the situation

Did he hold it up to his ear?!

So you can send a text from a McDonald's hash brown? What do I have a cellphone for?

mpolletta They will hash this out in court.

It doesn’t matter if it was a cell phone or hash brown. Distracted driving is distracted driving.

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