
 
 Stephanie Fragoso was pulled over for illegal use of Chapstick. (Courtesy of KLAS) 
 
 Distracted driving is bad news — and really, no one should do it. 
 
 But did you know that applying lip balm while you’re behind the wheel can result in a $200 ticket and points on your driving record? We didn’t either. 
 
 One Las Vegas woman learned the hard way that when the Nevada Highway Patrol says it has zero tolerance for distracted driving, it really means ZERO. 
 
 Stephanie Fragoso, 37, thought it was just another day at the wheel. She was driving to take care of something at the Department of Motor Vehicles, of all places, when she pulled away from an intersection, and the officer who had stopped at the red light next to her pulled her over. 
 
 He told Fragoso that she was getting a ticket because she was putting on makeup. 
 
 “I said no, I was putting on Chapstick,” Fragoso told The Washington Post. 
 
 Plus, she was stopped at a red light. A red light! 
 
 “He was very sorry; he did not want to give it to me,” Fragoso said of the ticket, which was first reported by CBS affiliate KLAS. 
 
 But Fragoso had violated a little-known local ordinance that can land drivers with expensive tickets for doing a host of things that might distract them from the road. 
 
 [Those other idiots are the distracted drivers you fear] 
 
 The incident happened on April 1, and we don’t really blame Fragoso for thinking it was just an elaborate, terrible April Fools’ Day joke. After all, dealing with pesky chapped lips at a red light seems harmless enough. 
 
 Not so. 
 
 Laws banning texting or using a cellphone while driving have become ubiquitous. But the one that snared Fragoso goes even further. And this week, police in Las Vegas were cracking down: Fragaso said the officer told her that drivers caught with their hands anywhere but on the wheel were liable to be ticketed. 
 
 “[The ordinance] states that when a person is operating a vehicle they must provide full attention to the driving so that it won’t render that action to be unsafe,” Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Loy Hixson told KLAS. 
 
 Admittedly, some of the examples Hixson cited are pretty bizarre, if not terrifying. 
 
 “They may be eating,” he said. “We’ve seen women putting on makeup. I have seen men shaving with their electric razors. One time, when I was driving down U.S. 95, I saw a lady watching a movie on her iPad and the iPad was attached to her steering wheel with Velcro.” 
 
 Okay, so don’t do that. 
 
 But watch yourselves, Vegas; your seemingly innocent self-grooming habits have no place on the road. 
 
 “It’s really crazy, but the drivers in the city are so bad, I kind of feel better knowing that [police] are doing it,” Fragoso said. “I’m just kind of sad I was the example of that.” 
 
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 Finally, the life-sized Cumberbatch chocolate statue we have been waiting for ||||| LAS VEGAS -- The Nevada Highway Patrol has a campaign to crackdown on distracted drivers, but how far is too far when it comes to cracking the whip? 8 News NOW decided to examine that question after a Las Vegas woman said she received a ticket from a Boulder City police officer for putting on lip balm at a red light. 
 
 Stephanie Fragoso said she was cited Wednesday during the statewide crackdown. She said she was at a red light at I-15 and Blue Diamond when it happened. 
 
 Fragoso said when she asked the officer why he pulled her over, he told her it was for putting on makeup. 
 
 "I told him it was Chapstick,” Fragoso said. 
 
 Initially, Fragoso thought the entire thing was a joke, especially since it was April Fools Day, but when she received the citation, she quickly realized that wasn't the case. 
 
 “He said 'it could have been anything; you could have been drinking water, shaving your legs',” said Fragoso. 
 
 Law enforcement officers say drivers can be ticketed for any distraction that takes their focus away from the road and their hands off the wheel. Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Loy Hixson said this is a city and county ordinance most people don't know about. 
 
 “It states that when a person is operating a vehicle they must provide full attention to the driving so that it won't render that action to be unsafe,” Hixson said. 
 
 When it comes to distracted drivers, Hixson said he has seen it all. 
 
 “They may be eating; we've seen women putting on makeup. I have seen men shaving with their electric razors," Hixson said. "One time, when I was driving down U.S. 95, I saw a lady watching a movie on her iPad and the iPad was attached to her steering wheel with Velcro." 
 
 Hixson says each ticket is issued on a case by case basis. For example, some drivers that may be an exception to the rule are people with medical conditions. Take a person who may have an episode; those drivers most likely will not receive a citation, according to Hixson. 
 
 However, that wasn't the case for Fragoso. The valley woman said she learned a tough lesson that day. Fragoso says she plans to be more conscious. 
 
 Along, with the fine, Fragoso's ticket caused her to receive points against her driving record. Her primary offense was Full Time Attention, but she says after the officer pulled her over she was also cited for Expired Registration and No Proof of Insurance.
– Las Vegas resident Stephanie Fragoso swears she's happy that troopers in Nevada are getting tough on distracted drivers, she's just surprised to find herself at the wrong end of a ticket. The 37-year-old tells CBS affiliate KLAS that she got a $200 citation Wednesday for the high crime of applying lip balm at a red light. The trooper who pulled her over as she was leaving the intersection explained that he did so because she was putting on makeup. "I said it was Chapstick,” she recalls, but she still got the ticket. “He was very sorry; he did not want to give it to me,” Fragoso tells the Washington Post. Another trooper tells the TV station that the State Patrol is in the midst of a statewide crackdown: Drivers who don't keep their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel risk a ticket, period. He cites some extreme examples, including one driver seen watching a movie on an iPad strapped to the steering wheel. In comparison, "dealing with pesky chapped lips at a red light seems harmless enough," writes Abby Phillip at the Post. "Not so." (In Virginia, a fifth-grader made headlines for fighting for her right to use Chapstick at school.)