My God, how many of us would be out money if this were truly enforced:

Giving a fellow motorist the finger may be rude, but it's not necessarily a crime, an appeals court said in throwing out a man's conviction.

Robert Lee Coggin, 34, was charged under an obscure state law that says it's a crime - disorderly conduct - to make an offensive gesture in a public place if it "tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace."

Last year, a jury found him guilty of disorderly conduct. He was fined $250.

In its ruling issued last Thursday, the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin said that Coggin's gesture was crude, but evidence did not establish it could cause an immediate breach of the peace. It ordered that he be acquitted.

I can't believe that charges were actually brought against a bird-flipping motorist. Must have been a slow day for the police.