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Bald Injustice

I slept on this story, but the above clip (actually it’s here as I couldn’t embed for some reason) is from Andre Marin, the Ombudsman of Ontario. He filmed the driver ahead as he shaved his head while driving.

“I was absolutely astounded,” Marin said. “He had both hands up in the air and he was using one hand to pull the skin at the back his neck and head and in the other hand he had an electric razor.”

The kicker is that Marin, who waited until he was stopped at light to film the offending grooming driver, is the one who would have gotten a ticket under Ontario’s forthcoming legislation against hand-held electronic devices (which does not discriminate against moving versus non-moving traffic), while police would presumably have been left, er, scratching their heads over what to do with the shaving driver.

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