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03-27-2005, 04:55 PM | #1 | |
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It's the Cell Phone's Fault!!
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs...260347/-1/NEWS
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03-27-2005, 05:16 PM | #2 |
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people like that should never be allowed to drive again.
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03-27-2005, 06:30 PM | #3 |
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...by being shot.
She's a hazard, with a reckless disregard for law and people.
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03-27-2005, 09:15 PM | #4 | |
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03-27-2005, 09:18 PM | #5 |
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Morgan Lee Pena is our local poster child ...
"Morgan's Law" became a cause celebre. For a while. But there are so many fill-in-the-blank-child's-name laws that it's hard to keep them all straight. I know you can be just as distracted while using handsfree options as you can while driving while holding the phone against your ear. I don't think you should do either. And yes. Of course I have. Until I'm able to pull over. Most of the time, though, I let voicemail catch the call. I do this for totally self serving reasons though, my life is far more important than the small amount of time I'd save by talking while driving.
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03-27-2005, 09:30 PM | #6 |
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Two minutes ago on the TV news.......Woman talking on the phone drives off the road into the ocean.
Unfortunately a boat put her back in the gene pool.
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03-28-2005, 12:29 PM | #7 |
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From time to time some people need to be reminded that driving is not a right, but a privilege.
In 1991 I was at Cook-Fort Worth Children's hospital for three months while my daughter had a bone marrow transplant. There was an eight year old boy in there when we got there, still there when we left, in a full body cast with the majority of the bones in his body broken, after being ran over twice by a school bus. He got off the bus, was walking in front of it toward his house when he droppped a book and bent down to pick it up. The driver took off, ran over him, then backed back up, running over him again, to see what she had ran over. (What seemed to upset the boy's mother the most was the fact that the driver never missed any work, she finished her route that day, and was driving it the very next morning. She felt like the woman should have been upset enough about the accident to take off work for at least some amount of time.) |
03-28-2005, 01:08 PM | #8 |
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That would be the reason why school busses have the "walk around the protruding stick so you can be seen by the bus driver" safety device.
That kind of accident was unfortunately not unusual.
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03-28-2005, 01:09 PM | #9 |
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I wondered what that thing was.
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03-28-2005, 01:12 PM | #10 |
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Yah. It would be cooler if it were for bus jousting, but it's actually for the children.
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03-28-2005, 01:19 PM | #11 |
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ooOoo We need to send letters to wide world of sports. Bus Jousting. Righteous!
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03-28-2005, 09:59 PM | #12 |
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I got gas this afternoon at a station that's right in the middle of a school zone. Lots of signs, flashing lights, 15 mph, the whole 9 yards. Medium to heavy traffic but in bunches, mostly. Some people were pushing the limit to maybe 20/25 tops but 2 came through at probably 35/40 mph. Both of them were women with kids in the car...one talking on the phone.
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03-29-2005, 09:46 AM | #13 |
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When I get to a school zone, I slow down to 15. It's not a completely altruistic move, though. I like pissing off the jerk behind me who wants to go 30 and thinks the entire day's schedule is ruined because he had to drive under the speed limit for 100 yards.
Getting a DUI in 2001 was probably the best thing that could've happened to me, driving-wise. The charge itself was a joke (I was sleeping in my car in my friend's driveway with the motor off), but the habits I formed afterwards for fear of losing my license made me a much more aware driver. Everyone go get yerself a DUI, toute suite.
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03-29-2005, 10:21 AM | #14 | |
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03-29-2005, 10:25 AM | #15 |
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done.
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