Ontario trucker fined for smoking in rig
Newsbot @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:35 am
Title: Ontario trucker fined for smoking in rig
Category: Business
Posted By: stemmer
Date: 2009-10-08 07:21:34
Canadian
raydan @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:35 am
So if I work out of my home (no other employees) I can get a ticket for smoking!
Lemmy @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:35 am
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 @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:38 am
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 @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:41 am
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 @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:42 am
Maybe they can sort this kind of thing out with "Randomly" stopping vehicles.
raydan @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:44 am
Smoking in my workplace isn't a criminal offense? 
Lemmy @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:45 am
raydan raydan:
Smoking in my workplace isn't a criminal offense?
Not yet, but I'm sure Uncle Stevie's considering it.
Brenda @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:45 am
Holy smokes! 
coaster_dot @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:59 am
Wait so can someone fill me in on this smoke free law?
Where can you smoke even?
gigs @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:01 am
coaster_dot coaster_dot:
Wait so can someone fill me in on this smoke free law?
Where can you smoke even?
Where can you smoke even?
In your coffin.
Brenda @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:02 am
On the... errr... euhmmm...
Dunno!
coaster_dot @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:03 am
So really...could you get in trouble for smoking in a park or in front of a business?
leewgrant @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:04 am
$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 @ Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:12 am
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.