British truck driver finds out the hard way that you can’t make a meal on the side of the road

A British truck driver has been fined for preparing his lunch (dinner?) on one of his truck’s fuel tanks on the side of a highway.

BBC News reports that police on the M25 roadway near St. Albans pulled over to check on a truck driver who’d pulled onto the shoulder and stopped his vehicle. They found the trucker chopping tomatoes and scallions on a baking sheet perched on his truck.

The hardshoulder of the M25 is probably not the best place to start preparing your dinner. pic.twitter.com/Q6EyDJX1jF

— BCH Road Policing Unit (@roadpoliceBCH) March 21, 2017

Healthy as it was, police were not amused at his choice of test kitchen, and the driver was fined. The report neither lists the amount of the fine nor the fate of the appetizer.

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