Alberta driver loses challenge to ticket after displaying anti-Harper sign
Posted Jul 20, 2016 9:14 pm.
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A judge in Alberta has convicted a man of stunting after he was pulled over by police for driving his car with a sign with an expletive aimed at former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Robert Wells of Edmonton was driving home from British Columbia when he was pulled over in August 2015 by an RCMP officer near Ponoka, Alta., and told to remove the sign.
He refused, saying it was a political statement and he had a right to have it in his window.
Judge B.D. Rosborough wrote in his ruling that the handmade “F–k Harper” sign didn’t amount to stunting itself, stating that it didn’t amount to a dangerous trick or manoeuvre.
But Rosborough said he believed testimony that Wells was deliberately slowing down and cutting in front of traffic on Highway 2 so that people would see his sign.
The judge said Wells was interfering with the orderly progress of other vehicles on the highway, which he said met the criteria for stunting.
