Maryland officer dresses as homeless man to catch drivers texting

Baltirmore Sun ^ | Oct 28 2015 | AP

[KneelBeforeZod]

A Maryland police officer went undercover and dressed as a homeless man to catch people who were using their phones while driving.

Cpl. Patrick Robinson went undercover Tuesday morning equipped with a police radio and a body camera. He held a sign that read, "I am not homeless. I am a Montgomery County police officer looking for cell phone texting violations."

[rfreedom4u]

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Same can be said of the seatbelt law. If it is for our “safety” then why aren’t motorcyclists required to wear helmets? What about people who eat/shave/read/apply makeup/drink coffee etc. while driving?

[Smokin' Joe]

If you note, I wasn't calling for regulation.

All I want is the right to beat the living crap out of someone who causes me or mine harm in an accident because they can't put their phone down.

[Nailbiter]

What about people who eat/shave/read/apply makeup/drink coffee etc. while driving?

That sentence describes me a various points in my life. LOL

[Smokin' Joe]

If it is for our "safety" then why aren't motorcyclists required to wear helmets?

It might surprise you to know that many of the people at the forefront of fighting seat belt laws were the same ones who had fought helmet laws.

We even had this neat bumper sticker which said "Keep your laws off my body"--which was stolen by another group of people, along with the rainbow and a word meaning "happy".

By the time you are entrusted to take a ton or more of vehicle down the highway at 60 MPH plus, you should be old enough to make your own decisions about what safety equipment you want to wear.

Besides, people do risk assessments, and when the perceived risk goes down, their behaviour tends to enhance the risk.

For those of us who grew up with steel dashboards, manual transmissions, and bias ply tires, the idea was simple: If you get in a wreck, it will more than likely hurt. a lot. Same thing on a motorcycle, helmet or not (the skull is way down the list for frequency of bones broken, weighing in far behind the tibia, fibula, femur, radius, ulna, humerus, the pelvic bones, and ribs, whether or not a helmet was worn).