Cars should come without cup holders in Minnesota because according to the St. Paul police, motoring while sipping a beverage is considered “inattentive driving.”

Lindsey Krieger“I was completely dumbfounded,” Lindsey Krieger said of being pulled over Monday morning.  “I thought it was a joke!”

She says she was merging onto I-94 in St. Paul on her way to work when she was spotted taking a sip of coffee and stopped by the police.

“I didn’t even have enough time to merge up to the right speed limit yet, so I wasn’t speeding or anything like that,” Krieger tells Fox 9.

“She was like, ‘Do you know what you were doing wrong? Do you know why you were pulled over?’ I said, ‘no I have no idea what you’re talking about.’ And finally after asking me a few more times she says, ‘Drinking coffee. It’s against the law to drink coffee while you’re driving.’”

St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster believes the officer was correct.

“Inattentive driving relates to anything that takes your attention away from those obligations of every driver, which is to pay attention,” Ernster says.

According to Krieger, she received a ticket, but not because of her beverage. She received just a warning for that.

“She came back and said, ‘I’m going to give you a warning for the coffee but I’m going to give you a no seat belt ticket’ which I happened to take off when I was pulled over.”

Krieger vows to fight the ticket in court and says she will continue drinking coffee on her way to work.