A woman has been spotted reading a book while driving down a British motorway at 70mph. Builder Andy Stonham was heading home on the M1 in Leicestershire when he saw the woman sitting at the wheel of her Nissan Micra with her book open in front of her. He says he followed for ten miles, before turning off at Junction 27, beeping at her and waving. She finally looked up from her book, smiled and waved back before carrying on as normal.”

This isn’t the end of the story, however. The lady concerned was photographed while reading. In other words someone travelling on the M1, maybe the said builder, Mr. Stonham, got out his camera, pointed it at her and took a picture as proof, all the while travelling at 70 miles an hour himself. Now tell me, who was the more inattentive and plain, damn dumb?

Epicurus would probably consign both parties to the galleys, where they could slave away without any view, or danger to others.