While we ’d be the first to intromit that the original adaptation of Battlestar Galactica is n’t as good as Ron Moore ’s retool masterpiece , we would n’t have distrust that it was enough to get someone arrest for watching it . Unfortunately for British hand truck driver Benjamin Trotsman , that turned out to be the guinea pig , otherwise he would n’t have find himself ostracise from driving for the next 15 month . To defend Lorne Greene ’s honor slightly , it may not have been Battlestar Galactica ’s fault entirely – I intend , Trotsman belike give birth some responsibility for watching it on his laptop while also attempt to aim across the country . Trotsman was get last December after law mark that his drive had become middling … erratic :
The alarm was raise by another lorry driver who followed Trotsman as he travelled north through Cumbria on the nighttime of 11 December , the court heard . Trotsman ’s Poundstretcher lorry was speeding up , slowing down , and veering onto the hard shoulder joint … Adrienne Harris , prosecuting , severalize the court that dealings officer Sgt Paul Brown could see Trotman ’s motortruck veering across the route and draw him over Union of Penrith to look into . She said : “ There was a laptop computer on the dashboard . A number of files under the name Battlestar Galactica were displayed and the media covering was running . ”
Harris went on to say that , had he been watch Doctor Who , an strange loophole in British natural law would have meant that he would have gotten away with just a admonition . TV - viewing camion driver sentenced[BBC ]
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