Man claims he's been wrongly ticketed for distracted driving; insists that police mistook his McDonald's hash brown for a cellphone.
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.A Connecticut man claims he's been wrongly accused of distracted driving, insisting police mistook a McDonald's hash brown for his cellphone.
Stiber, 45, contends that Westport Police Department Cpl. Shawn Wong made an honest mistake and mixed up the driver's black cellphone with a hash brown wrapped in white McDonald's paper he was eating. And that's what Stiber and his lawyer did, trying their case before Judge Maureen Dennis on Friday. Stiber has already spent $1,000 to fight this“I have done nothing but criminal defense for 21 years and I have a very sensitive nose for" lying clients, Stiber's lawyer John Thygerson told NBC News on Tuesday."I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that I firmly believe my client 100 percent.
The officer testified last week that he's sure Stiber was speaking into a phone and not eating breakfast.