Posted on 06/14/2012 10:18:00 AM PDT by pawpawrick
busted for talking on cell phone while driving video at link
guess that was all of our first thought ... he can’t afford a hands-free device? Wallace has to know better. Assuming this happened in DC, that’s been the law there for at least 10 years.
My problem with talking on cell/driving is that I can’t concentrate on both, so the hands-free doesn’t help. I’m just fine driving, holding/drinking a can of coke, cause that doesn’t require any thought/concentration.
How do you feel about drivers who talk to the person sitting next to them? You know, where there’s a temptation to take their eyes off the road
to make eye contact.
I suppose all drivers should be forced to remain silent while driving since talking to a passenger is essentially the same thing as talking on a phone.
Right!
What we need is more gubment power. More gubment controls over the individual. Easy ways to create probable cause. Big problems need big gubment.
300 million people in this country. So we need more cops. More cops mean more taxes. More cops means we need more laws. You know, to give the cops something to do. More laws means more cops. More cops means more taxes. More cops means we need morelaws, you know, give the cops something to do. Damn. Need more courts. More judges. More laws. More taxes... My goodness. Bless your little heart. Sure am glad people like you are around.
Let us hope this is the end of the Wallace Irish dynasty.
Proper? Proper because we don’t have enough laws? Because we don’t have enough busy body risk transferring metro-sexuals around?
Nope - center lane (It's amazing how many people on this thread don't recognize sarcasm when they see it!)
Maybe he was driving a rental car.
The new blue tooth is excellent, clear and easy if you set up the voice dialing. I don’t like to hold conversations in the car, though. I just use the phone for brief messages or questions, like help, I’m driving in circles and still can’t find your address.
This is a conservative forum. Small government. Limited powers. Personal responsibility.
Wow. You scare me.
Fine. If you can’t drive and talk on the phone don’t do it. Do not. Do not advocate for big brother to force your viewing your fellow man.
It’s funny (but not really) how people confuse their selfish behavior with liberty while operating a dangerous machine in a public place, a machine that has hundreds of components regulated by the oppressive government, not to mention the freedom limiting road rules such as having to drive on the right side of the street. Imagine that!
Infantile fools!
Sarcasm?
Well ... all right then. I guess you can step foot south of the Red River. ;p
Sarcasm?
Well ... all right then. I guess you can step foot south of the Red River. ;p
Well ... all right then. I guess you can step foot south of the Red River. ;p
Okay, thanks!
(I wasn't trying to start a fight with anybody - just trying to inject a little humor into the discussion!)
...and Chris Wallace gets handcuffed for talking on a cell phone....ok, I got it now...
Liberty is about accepting risk. That is what liberty is.
Gubment school educated sheeple learned to sit when the bell rings. Stand when the bell rings. Pee when the bell rings. The textbooks are arranged with cool little end of chapter quizzes. quizzes that nicely, chronologically follow the chapter. Tests are created from the end of chapter quizzes. Everything is highly predictable and controlled.
So these same little urchins grow up to vote. What do they demand? A highly predictable, risk adverse environment. They are willing to create a world full of cops, guns, courts, judges to get what they want.
Big solutions needs big gubment. So an infrastructure is built that can impose it’s will on the daily behavior of a country that spans a continent and has 300,000,000 people. I wonder what this infrastructure of control will be used for by future people with less scruples than you.
This “one-size fits all” mentality is the greatest tool of big government liberalism. Banning speaking on a cell phone while driving only causes people to do more texting while driving. And then banning texting while driving only forces already distracted texting drivers to lower their cell phones deeper into their laps so they won't be seen by the prying eyes of others outside their car. Of course, they'll have an even harder time driving the car, too, because they'll have to look straight down to text...which they will do.
Talking on the cell phone isn't even the top category of distracted driving contributing to accidents. If you want to be bubble-wrapped for safety by your government, move to New York with the rest of the liberal lunatics who don't feel they can handle the choice of a large soda at the theater, or need some brain-dead bureaucrat to control the salt they eat.
People also tend to assume everyone around them is just as limited in ability as they are. If you don’t feel you can safely use a phone and drive, then don’t. But there are quite a few people out there who are far more safe on the road with a cell phone up to their ear than some drivers without a cell phone.
Busybody’s who call themselves by super hero names annoy the hell out of me but since I’m into “freedom” I will die for your right to be annoying and fly around in a funny looking suit. Now if your cape happens to slip and you hit my windshield causing me to drop my cell phone while I’m driving and chatting in heavy traffic then what goes around comes around. :)
LOL; can handle that. . .
I’ve heard Chris Wallace interviewed about being brought on board at FOX.
He said that when he got there he thought all this fuss about left-wing media bias was just sour grapes and right-wing b!tching.
But he said that after a few months on the job, and being exposed to something other than the usual Beltway-D.C.-New York groupthink, he underwent a profound and (for him) unsettling reconsideration of so many things he had taken as gospel—liberal media establishment gospel—and emerged with an entirely different understanding of the views and values in play.
I’m not saying he’s the world’s greatest broadcaster or (by any means) a stalwart conservative. But I think he does at least have some sense of where people like us are coming from.
That’s far more than most news anchors could say. Lord, once I even saw Chris’s revolting father sneer at him, during an interview of the old man, about “your little show over there on...what is it called, FOX?”
What kind of scumbag would talk down to his son like that on national television, especially a son who so eagerly had followed in the father’s professional footsteps?
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