00:01in other news katie thomas has gone viral now katie is an adaptive athlete who documents her
00:10life with a limb difference on her instagram called slightly off balance what caught everyone's
00:14attention recently was a video that she posted of her run-in with police while driving so i'm
00:21gonna let you hear it and i'll explain what happened so so she gets pulled over and the
00:25police officer with his body cam footage shows up to the car there's a way being pulled over
00:29in the city of legwork today we're doing an operation for distracted driving you drove past
00:33me holding the phone with your right hand manipulating that phone so at this point she
00:37holds up her right hand because he says you're distracted driving you are holding a phone in
00:42your right hand she raises her right arm on the end of which is not a hand because she is
00:49an adaptive
00:49athlete with a limb difference and she doesn't have a right hand wow yeah i mean i saw you
00:58obviously not so you want to just call this a day i don't want to call a day you had
01:04a hand up so he
01:06is continuing to argue with her he's saying you had a hand up holding the phone she's like but
01:10you said it was my right hand and i don't have a right hand i mean that's a big difference
01:15like
01:16your left hand is the driver's side the driver's window right like that would be right yeah so they
01:20go back and forth for a while did you did you not have your phone on your hand you did
01:26not have your
01:26phone on your hand i did not hand to god you don't have funny hand to god so she goes
01:30to hand to god
01:30and she lifts her right arm without a hand the other hand to god you don't have funny hand
01:37so you think it would be done at this point right he's just gonna check her said no he cited
01:41her wow he cited her 116 dollars for driving distracted even though he said it was she was
01:48holding her phone in her right hand of which she does not have um amazing story ended up having to
01:54go to court and they dropped the charges for insufficient evidence thank you officer i mean
02:01just a really cringy moment here right but um some good news came out of it dairy queen made her
02:09a cake
02:10wow with a cell phone and her arm right obviously not holding the cell phone because it can't um and
02:19she actually has a whole website now where she sells hand to god merchandise with all of the profits
02:26benefiting shriner's hospitals oh that's so great yeah yeah so it's pretty cool stuff um yeah so you
02:33can you can google that but yeah hand to god merch from slightly off balance you got to hand it
02:38to her
02:38for making a good thing out of what could be very uncomfortable let's give her a hand
02:42you
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