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Writing F-bomb on your speeding ticket is free speech, judge rules

Writing F-bomb on your speeding ticket is free speech, judge rules

Aggrieved drivers have the Constitutional right to scrawl F-bombs and other words of rage when they submit their traffic ticket payment slips, a federal judge has ruled.

The decision stems from the arrest of a frustrated Connecticut motorist, who wrote “F–k your s–tty town b–ches” on a form as he sent the upstate town of Liberty $175 for a speeding fine in 2012.

Federal judge Cathy Seibel said the town was wrong to jail Willian Barboza, then 22, because he was legally permitted to spew all the blue language he wanted, as long as he wasn’t threatening anyone.

“I find that plaintiff suffered a deprivation of his First Amendment rights when he was arrested,” judge Cathy Seibel said in White Plains federal court Thursday.

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