Who Writes This Stuff, Terry Southern?

Or maybe Henny Youngman, since this story is his kind of bare-bones, set-it-up-and-knock-it-down, premise-and-punchline joke (via Jacob Sullum):

A 20-year-old Port Hope, Ont., man has been ticketed for smoking in a car in which a 15-year-old girl was one of his passengers.

While Tory Ashton was waiting for his $155 ticket, the girl—a smoker herself—got out of the car and legally lit up a cigarette of her own.

Take my civil liberties. Please.