Free Staters make plans to provoke police with ‘cell phone cookies’
A group of Free Staters hope to provoke a response from police by pretending to talk on a cell phone while driving. Their scheme involves baked goods.
Rob Mathias, an early mover who blogs at The Voluntaryist Rebel and Free Keene, recently posted a photo from a Free Staters’ New Movers Party featuring several men “talking” on cookies decorated to resemble cell phones. “Preparing to combat the hands free law in NH with cell phone cookies,” Mathias wrote.
New Hampshire is the 13th state, along with the District of Columbia, to prohibit drivers from using hand-held electronic devices while driving. State officials say it is “the most comprehensive distracted driving bill in the nation.” The new law went into effect on July 1, 2015.
The Free Stater exploit was apparently inspired by a Los Angeles comedian who made headlines in 2013 with a similar stunt:
On Wednesday, Liedtke drove around pretending to talk on an iPhone-shaped cookie, hoping to lure cops into trying to give him a ticket.
The plan, he tweeted, was to “just take a bite and ask if cookies are against the law.”
According to Liedtke’s Twitter account, he did get a police officer to pull him over, who was “confused and angry” when he realized the “iPhone” was in fact a cookie.
The joke was on Liedtke when police discovered there was a warrant out for his arrest for unpaid parking tickets. Ten hours later, Liedtke tweeted a selfie from the police station. “Wasn’t worth it. I’m an idiot… No more iPhone Cookies,” he wrote.