Kicker - The treble with distracted driving

NICK EICHER, HOST: Distracted driving as you surely know is a major problem: drivers’ eyes need to be on the road—not on their phones. Many states have tried to curb that dangerous habit with hands-free laws.

Not just in the United States, also in Canada.

Case in point: Officers near Toronto spotted a man driving with both hands—so they thought—on his cell phone.

So they pulled him over, did a little police work, and discovered it wasn’t a cell phone at all. It was a flute. The driver had both hands on a flute and he’d been playing the flute while driving. And not from memory. He was reading sheet music from an iPad. Not even kidding.

REICHARD: Guess he’s in real treble now!

EICHER: Police posted a picture of the flute online with the hashtag “#FlutesAndDrivingDontMix.”

Flautist flouts hands-free law with flute.

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