I hope the couple got charged for not having control of their car, since the police should go after "weavers" and "tailgaters" more than speeder... but that won't happen anytime soon.
She made her bed but you could look as it as she's lucky. There's a lot of people that would take very unkindly to having something thrown in their car. She could have got the crap kicked out of her or worse.
throwing something into another car could be fatal so I'm okay with the law. No harm was actually done so I'm okay with probation.
As Michael Waltrip says: "I don't get upset with drivers who cut me off. I just figure they need to be somewhere faster than me."
(The grammar would be "faster than I" but who's quibbling?)
The police and the judge over-reacted here. The weaver is partially responsible. The very least a person can do is stick a hand out of a window and wave to the person who let them into the line. It's just the polite thing to do.
But we're not nearly as polite a nation as we were fifty years ago.
I think she overreacted, but imho, this shouldn't have been more than a misdemeanor, unless someone had been injured. Then it would depend on the severity of the injury.
She's right. No one should go to jail over a piece of ice.
-- Debra Lafave