55-year-old Steve Simonar was issued the ticket by a Saskatchewan police officer who saw him pull up at a set of lights without a seatbelt on in his home town of Saskatoon in Canada.
Simonar has vowed to fight the ticket though, saying that he has permission from his doctors to drive his car without a seatbelt.
“I’ll go to the Supreme Court, I’ll go to jail over this. I’m not ever gonna pay this ticket,” Steve Simonar told QMI Agency on Wednesday.
According to Simonar, Saskatchewan government Insurance has had to issue him an exception on the mandatory seatbelt laws, which weren’t in place when Simonar first suffered the loss of his arms 28 years ago.
Police spokeswoman Alyson Edward said that officers can use their own discretion when issuing fines of this nature.
“Perhaps the discretion used would have been less than (in) an individual traffic stop.”
Simonar isn’t mollified though, saying that he will go as far as he needs too to have the ticket revoked, even saying he’d go to the Human Rights Commission.
He has also accused the officer who issued the ticket of being offensive about his handicap, saying “The officer that gave me the ticket was as arrogant and ignorant today as he was the day he gave me the ticket. He said, ‘I treat everybody the same, and you people expect things different.'”
Looks like the Saskatchewan police force have a real problem on their hands…
