Talking on the phone and driving....

chadwick

^^^^ @ imalive

catefrances

markin ball wrote:

catefrances wrote:

markin ball wrote:

Helmet laws exist because insurance companies don't like paying for brain injuries and subsequent care. It ain't because big brother is looking out for you. Texting while driving laws are likely born of something similar. $ > "personal liberties".

and what about my personal liberty NOT to sideswiped by some idiot whose total attention isnt on the road and whats around them as it should be? driving isnt a right, its a privilege.. people need to know that...and appreciate it.

I'm not sure you the intent of my post was understood. I don't think it is a good idea to talk/text while driving however I think that if laws are passed banning such things I believe it is not necessarily because big brother gives a shit about you or is trying to take personal liberties from you but because the corporations that fund politicians find these types of laws help their bottom line.

i got it.

tbh the ONLY reason i wear a seatbelt when i do is so some bored police officer doesnt pull me over and fine me for not doing so. anyhoo...


.. coming home xmas day i was driving along and approaching my left turn when the 4WD in the adjacent lane changed lanes so she too could turn left..which is ok. so i moved right into the other left hand turn lane and as we both rounded the corner, she moved over back into my lane. i managed to brake and leant on the horn for a while... and wished the car i was driving hadve been mine cause i wouldntve braked and missed the collision as adroitly as i did... i just wouldve hit her and legally (and morally) it wouldve been her stupid fault. i thought are you fucking kidding me, you change lanes to turn the corner and end up drifting across into the lane you were originally in anyways... she didnt even have the excuse of chatting on her cell phone. i just wish fuckers paid attention.

Jeanwah

Oh, how I miss the days when there were no such thing as mobile phones.

Nothing can be that important that one absolutely has to be on the phone, talking or texting, while driving a car. We've done it before, and we can do it again.

chadwick

Jeanwah wrote:

Oh, how I miss the days when there were no such thing as mobile phones.

Nothing can be that important that one absolutely has to be on the phone, talking or texting, while driving a car. We've done it before, and we can do it again.

what about driving huge semi tractor trailers? i am amazed anyone found anything back when they had to use a pay phone at the truck stop. how the fuck does a person find some address in L.A. w/out calling and calling and calling back 15 different times whilst driving in very large circles and touring the warehouse and factory locations of wonderous lost angels? physically cannot be done.

Jeanwah

chadwick wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

Oh, how I miss the days when there were no such thing as mobile phones.

Nothing can be that important that one absolutely has to be on the phone, talking or texting, while driving a car. We've done it before, and we can do it again.

what about driving huge semi tractor trailers? i am amazed anyone found anything back when they had to use a pay phone at the truck stop. how the fuck does a person find some address in L.A. w/out calling and calling and calling back 15 different times whilst driving in very large circles and touring the warehouse and factory locations of wonderous lost angels? physically cannot be done.

Yet it was done. Have you not heard of CB radio???

chadwick

Jeanwah wrote:

chadwick wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

Oh, how I miss the days when there were no such thing as mobile phones.

Nothing can be that important that one absolutely has to be on the phone, talking or texting, while driving a car. We've done it before, and we can do it again.

what about driving huge semi tractor trailers? i am amazed anyone found anything back when they had to use a pay phone at the truck stop. how the fuck does a person find some address in L.A. w/out calling and calling and calling back 15 different times whilst driving in very large circles and touring the warehouse and factory locations of wonderous lost angels? physically cannot be done.

Yet it was done. Have you not heard of CB radio???

no shit?

really?

you believe that solves the problem?
it helps at times but is no major fixer

mobile phones... now that is the ticket for truckers.
everyone else shouldn't even own a cell

btw, cb radios have to be adjusted and keyed up on, those are hand movements and eyes on radio. same as a phone.

catefrances

chadwick wrote:

no shit?

really?

you believe that solves the problem?
it helps at times but is no major fixer

mobile phones... now that is the ticket for truckers.
everyone else shouldn't even own a cell

btw, cb radios have to be adjusted and keyed up on, those are hand movements and eyes on radio. same as a phone.

the point is chad that pre mobile phone the world managed to function just fine. how many times has someone failed to get back to you(collectively , not personally) cause their phone died, they had no reception or cause they 'ran out of credit'?

chadwick

catester, i loved the world before we all had mobile phones. i wish we didn't have them and or only used them during emergencies.

to be honest, droid phones, virgin mobile, ect, ect, and at&t, verizon, ect... should all be fined when ppl use them whilst driving unless you are mickeyrat or chadwick.

81...he's good to go.

tavern owners and operators are fined at times when a shitfaced person stagger-strolls out of their establishment and into a metallic rolling machine whilst he/she passes out and slams into someone or something

let's ask, bucket hat, he owns a bar.

Dissidentman

chadwick wrote:

catester, i loved the world before we all had mobile phones. i wish we didn't have them and or only used them during emergencies.

to be honest, droid phones, virgin mobile, ect, ect, and at&t, verizon, ect... should all be fined when ppl use them whilst driving unless you are mickeyrat or chadwick.

81...he's good to go.

tavern owners and operators are fined at times when a shitfaced person stagger-strolls out of their establishment and into a metallic rolling machine whilst he/she passes out and slams into someone or something

let's ask, bucket hat, he owns a bar.

A woman left our bar and an hour later came barreling down the street and RIGHT OVER a pedestrian. Luckily the injured lady pulled through, and eye witnesses said she came from all the way up the street - meaning she most likely went home to consume more booze before hopping in her car gain. Good thing for receipts and cameras...

Wobbie

chadwick wrote:

let's ask, bucket hat, he owns a bar.

holy shit! where is said bar? :shock:

catefrances

Dissidentman wrote:

chadwick wrote:

catester, i loved the world before we all had mobile phones. i wish we didn't have them and or only used them during emergencies.

to be honest, droid phones, virgin mobile, ect, ect, and at&t, verizon, ect... should all be fined when ppl use them whilst driving unless you are mickeyrat or chadwick.

81...he's good to go.

tavern owners and operators are fined at times when a shitfaced person stagger-strolls out of their establishment and into a metallic rolling machine whilst he/she passes out and slams into someone or something

let's ask, bucket hat, he owns a bar.

A woman left our bar and an hour later came barreling down the street and RIGHT OVER a pedestrian. Luckily the injured lady pulled through, and eye witnesses said she came from all the way up the street - meaning she most likely went home to consume more booze before hopping in her car gain. Good thing for receipts and cameras...

what are you doing here??? this aint the AET. :P

Dissidentman

catefrances wrote:

Dissidentman wrote:

A woman left our bar and an hour later came barreling down the street and RIGHT OVER a pedestrian. Luckily the injured lady pulled through, and eye witnesses said she came from all the way up the street - meaning she most likely went home to consume more booze before hopping in her car gain. Good thing for receipts and cameras...

what are you doing here??? this aint the AET. :P

I know, it feels weird....