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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
24hr seizure on the vehicle is actually more appropriate - they enforce motor vehicle laws, not talking on cell phone laws.
It's not a question of nanny state or not, it's actually quite an egregious abuse of power. I am totally in favour of losing your car for 24 hours though if you are driving it without due care and control (ie. distracted).
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The ridiculouslness of it would be amplified if police were forced to take away anything that was used in a distracted driving incident. They just picked the one thing that they know people rely on heavily for daily use, and decided to make it legal to take them away.
"Sir, hand over the newspaper, you can come down to district 8 in 24 hours to retrieve your property."
"Sir, I'm only going to ask once, hand over that whopper, immeditaly. You can pick it up and microwave it tomorrow, but right now it's property of the Calgary police."