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German police stop man with mobile office in car

Posted: 11/16/12 at 9:10 am
Tags: Germany   mobile officer   traffic violation  

BERLIN (AP) -- 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 say 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.

A navigation system and cellphone mounted to the windshield completed the array.

Since there was no evidence he used the office while moving, he got away with a (euro) 120 ($153) speeding ticket and a possible fine for having unsecured items in his car.

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