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Newsjock

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Thu Aug 20, 2015, 12:27 PM Aug 2015

Alberta man gets $543 ticket for 'F–k Harper' sign (pic)

Source: Canadian Press

An Edmonton man plans to fight a traffic ticket he was given for sticking a crude political message in the rear window of his car.

Rob Wells posted the handmade, pink “F–k Harper” sign a week ago to voice his contempt for Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in the upcoming federal election.

... On the drive back, after he hit the Calgary area on Sunday, he said he saw a few middle fingers. RCMP then pulled him over about 50 kilometres south of Edmonton. An officer demanded he remove the sign, Wells said.

... Wells was handed a $543 fine under the section of the Highway Traffic Act that prohibits anything that distracts other drivers. Wells said he plans to be in Ponoka provincial court Nov. 12 to argue against the ticket and will also be filing a complaint with the RCMP.

Read more: http://globalnews.ca/news/2175738/alberta-man-gets-543-ticket-for-f-k-harper-sign/

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Huck Farper KT2000 Aug 2015 #1

KT2000

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1. Huck Farper
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 01:23 PM
Aug 2015

was a sign I saw on a car in Victoria BC last week. Thought it was hilarious. Bet he/she didn't get a ticket for that one!

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