[Newsbot]

Title: Ontario trucker fined for smoking in rig
Category: Business
Posted By: stemmer
Date: 2009-10-08 07:21:34
Canadian

[raydan]

So if I work out of my home (no other employees) I can get a ticket for smoking!

[Lemmy]

raydan raydan:

So if I work out of my home (no other employees) I can get a ticket for smoking!

Not if you refuse to let the cop into your house, which is your right.

[raydan]

Lemmy Lemmy:

raydan raydan:

So if I work out of my home (no other employees) I can get a ticket for smoking!

Not if you refuse to let the cop into your house, which is your right.

But if he sees me though a window, he can, which is pretty much how the trucker got a ticket.

[Lemmy]

raydan raydan:

But if he sees me though a window, he can, which is pretty much how the trucker got a ticket.

Nope. Your house is different than your car. They can't come in unless they witness a criminal offense in progress or have a warrant.

[Regina]

Maybe they can sort this kind of thing out with "Randomly" stopping vehicles.

[raydan]

Smoking in my workplace isn't a criminal offense?

[Lemmy]

raydan raydan:

Smoking in my workplace isn't a criminal offense?

Not yet, but I'm sure Uncle Stevie's considering it.

[Brenda]

Holy smokes!

[coaster_dot]

Wait so can someone fill me in on this smoke free law?

Where can you smoke even?

[gigs]

coaster_dot coaster_dot:

Wait so can someone fill me in on this smoke free law?

Where can you smoke even?

In your coffin.

[Brenda]

On the... errr... euhmmm...

Dunno!

[coaster_dot]

So really...could you get in trouble for smoking in a park or in front of a business?

[leewgrant]

$1:

Truckers from across Canada were fuming Wednesday night as word spread that Ontario police fined a driver $305 for smoking in his rig, which the law considers his workplace.

I'm sure the truckers are quite happy to consider it a workplace when it comes to the enforcement of occupational health and safety laws. In that case it works to their advantage.

[gigs]

coaster_dot coaster_dot:

So really...could you get in trouble for smoking in a park or in front of a business?

you could depending on the local by-laws.