Smoking with kids in the car can get you a $100 ticket and the internet is mad about it"!
Parents all want what’s best for the health of their kids, right" So it shouldn’t be a surprise that smoking a cigarette while driving around with your kids in the car is a no-no?seems like common sense.
However, when the traffic safety unit at the Virginia Beach Police Department tweeted about how they issue a $100 ticket for doing just that, people on Twitter were… angry about it" Don’t worry, we’re confused too. For some background, the U.S. doesn’t have a federal law regarding a ban of smoking in a car with kids present, so it’s up to the individual states to decide (Canada is the same federally, but most provinces do ban it).
According to a local news site, the law in Virginia has been in effect for almost two years?since July 1, 2016?and the VBPD has only issued about 20 of these tickets since then. Here’s the original tweet from the VBPD, showing one of these tickets:
Protect your children and keep $100 in your pocket! #NoSmoking #WeAreWatching pic.twitter.com/fH42lIfHap
— VBPD Traffic Safety (@VBPDTraffic) May 8, 2018
And here are some of the weirdly angry responses that people left on the thread:
Good to know this, NOW I know which State to NEVER visit!!!
? Caroline Barlow (@CarolineBarlow) May 14, 2018
I don’t smoke but glad I don’t live in Virginia Beach
? Michael Hay (@drhay2020) May 14, 2018
Glad I don’t live there…I’ll keep my freedoms and fight for anyone els...
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