Chatty driver interrupts officer during traffic stop to answer phone; gets ticketed

Early Wednesday morning, Sgt. Aaron Belt of the Dunwoody Police Department was speaking to the man whose car he had just pulled over when the man interrupted him — to pick up his cell phone and yap away.

The officer had pulled over the car after it made two illegal turns and almost stopped at a series of two green lights, according to The Blaze. The driver apparently was speaking on his cell phone before the stop, but that alone is legal in Georgia, meaning the driver would could have gotten away with only a warning.

As Belt conversed with the driver, explaining why the stop had been conducted, the driver’s phone rang. Rather than letting it go to voice mail or even giving a quick message to the person on the other side, the driver began to engage in a full conversation, much to Belt’s chagrin.