Tossed Case

If you're used to hurtling half-eaten apples from moving cars, you might want to avoid Lower Nazareth Township.

A judge there fined a Pennsylvania woman $173.50 for launching lettuce from her car window.

For some reason this is about the most popular story on the San Francisco's The Gate site. (Probably the same reason we post about it here, except it's far closer to home, near Easton.)

The AP report states that Dawn Higgins, 47, tossed the salad item while parked outside a Wal-Mart on Oct. 18. She'd stopped at a McDonald's first. She finished her meal, but didn't want the pieces of lettuce atop her salad. She got caught.

She missed a court date, and was convicted in absentia. The report quotes her as making the old biodegradable defense.

"Lettuce comes from the ground, therefore it can go back into the ground," she said. "It's biodegradable. I didn't think I was doing anything wrong."

You could make the same about throwing a body out the window, but we've been watching too much HBO.