DON’T TEXT WHILE DRIVING, DON’T ROLL A JOINT WHILE DRIVING

And really important, don’t roll a joint while evading arrest

I’m sure it would take as much eye concentration and hand dexterity to roll a marijuana joint as it does to send a text message, probably even more.

ANDRES MARTINEZ: DRIVING WHILE ROLLING JOINT, ALMOST HITS COP, COPS SAY
By Richard Connelly

Houston Press Hair Balls
May 7, 2012

You're leading police on a low-speed chase and notice they've laid a spike strip across the road ahead, so you swerve around it.

Unfortunately, you almost hit a cop, making him jump for his life.

Bad driving? No -- amazing multi-tasking, if what KHOU reports is true. Andres Martinez told cops "he wasn't attempting to hit the officer, he was rolling a joint and trying to call his 'peeps' to tell them he was going to jail," the station reports.

Now that's a dude with a lot on his plate, and who can blame him if his spike-strip-avoidance skills suffered somewhat?

The court documents connected to the arrest do not mention his reported explanation, they simply charge Martinez, 24, with evading arrest and attempted intoxication assault.

The chase occurred early Sunday morning on the Gulf Freeway.