One of the most permissive states in the U.S. is cracking down heavily on drivers for the smallest of infractions.
Stephanie Fragoso, from Nevada, the land of casinos and brothels, was issued a $200 traffic ticket as part of a statewide crackdown on distracted drivers traveling on Interstate 15.
But Fragoso’s case is especially strange given that she was hardly distracted and not even driving.
Fragoso was sitting in her car a red light on Wednesday when she was stopped by a Nevada state trooper who said she violated the “Zero Tolerance Zone Campaign” by putting on makeup.
“I told him it was Chapstick,” Fragoso told KLAS, adding that she first thought she was the target of an April Fools Day prank.
But the trooper wasn’t joking and issued her a $200 ticket. The citation will also dock points from her driving record.
“He said ‘it could have been anything; you could have been drinking water, shaving your legs,'” Fragoso said.
State troopers are focusing on the high-traffic Interstate 15 in hopes of preventing accidents.
“[The law] states that when a person is operating a vehicle they must provide full attention to the driving so that it won’t render that action to be unsafe,” Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Loy Hixson told KLAS.
“They may be eating; we’ve seen women putting on makeup. I have seen men shaving with their electric razors,” Hixson said. “One time, when I was driving down U.S. 95, I saw a lady watching a movie on her iPad and the iPad was attached to her steering wheel with Velcro.”
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