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German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car

Posted by timothy on from the so-what's-the-trouble-officer? dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes "Forget texting while driving. German police say they nabbed a driver who had wired his Ford station wagon with an entire mobile office. Saarland state police said Friday the 35-year-old man was pulled over for doing 130 kph (80 mph) in a 100 kph zone while passing a truck Monday. Built on a wooden frame on his passenger seat they found a laptop on a docking station tilted for easy driver access, a printer, router, wireless internet stick, WLAN antenna, and an inverter to power it all." I've driven some long trips with a similar passenger-seat setup (minus the printer), but of course for use only while stopped. Since the police in this case had no evidence that the rig was being used while driving, the driver was ticketed only for speeding and for having unsecured items. Really, it seems like something that Skymall should offer in neater form; now I regret not picking up a surplus police cruiser computer when they were in stock at the local Goodwill.

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  1. Re:Marketing strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah but cops get special training to do so in a safe and (&$&$/&)(/" Carrier Lost

  2. Re:Non-story by Stephan+Schulz · · Score: 5, Funny

    /Me wonders where this guy parks his car - seems like a setup like that is just screaming: "Hey car thief! Please break my window & grab laptop + other office gear!". :-)

    We don't have crime in Germany. It went out of style 35 years ago as old-fashioned.

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  3. Simpsons already did it... by lewko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Needs a donut fryer.

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  4. Re:Marketing strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    My mother has that setup for her reality job.

    Really? What does she have for her fantasy job?

  5. When asked... by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 4, Funny

    When asked what he was doing, did he respond, "Impersonating an office sir."

    You can all groan now.

    Cheers,
    Dave

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