Police in Lambton, Ontario stopped a truck driver at around 11:30 a.m. July 7 after a passing motorist reported that the tractor-trailer was weaving “all over the road,” according to a statement by the Ontario Provincial Police.

What police found after they stopped the 58-year-old trucker from Kitchener was one for the books. Apparently, the reason the  truck was weaving because the man was trying to perform self-dentistry, attempting to pull an aching tooth.

To accomplish this tooth-pulling feat, he had tied one end of the string to his tooth, and another to the roof of the truck’s cab. According to police, he was waiting for “one good bump” to yank the tooth out of his mouth.

Needless to say, police cited the truck driver for careless driving.

By the way, his little dentistry experiment apparently worked. When police stopped him, the string and his bloody tooth laid next to him on his seat.

Tags: careless driving, Driving, injury, Safety

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