Posted on 07/29/2009 4:09:21 AM PDT by suspects
Wake up, you Crackheads!
No, I don’t mean the corner punks . . . they’re just small businessmen trying to pay the bills. They’re no threat to my family or me.
It’s you arrogant Blackberry addicts, texting 50 words per minute while doing 75 miles per hour down the Pike. Could you please put that damn thing down?
It’s bad enough that you self-absorbed jerks can’t stop texting when you’re on foot - bumping into your co-workers walking down the hall and stepping into traffic on city streets without even glancing up.
I particularly hate the office Crackheads (you know who you are) who ask me to meet with them on some issue of their concern, then five minutes into their meeting they start reading and sending texts.
If you’re that guy - and it’s almost always a guy - your co-workers want you to know you’re one emoticon away from having your next text read for you by your proctologist.
Texting while talking is bad enough. Texting while driving? It’s killing us. Literally.
Not that we needed one, but a new study confirms the obvious: It’s impossible to safely drive, type and read at the same time. The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute used cameras to monitor truckers over millions of miles. They found that texting drivers were 23 times more likely to crash or have a “near-crash” experience.
Not 23 percent . . . 2,300 percent.
Texting while driving is stupid, dangerous and indefensible. Unfortunately Crackheads tend...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
My question: how much nanny is a state allowed to be before it's officially a nanny-state?
I’m of the opinion that any cell phone use that requires you to look at a screen, while driving is bad. I realized if I want to call somebody, I have to momentarily look down at the menu in order to select their number. I just put the cell phone away in the car. Not to say I don’t occasionally answer a call while I’m driving, but I quit calling folks unless I pull over into a parking lot.
Texting, well don’t get me started. I’m not much of a texter (too slow...you can’t teach an old dog...etc.), but my kid and his friends, oy, can they put out the texts. I’ve often said, why not just call them up and talk instead of constantly texting back and forth? We’ve laid the law down about any texting, which includes reading received texts or responding while in the car. Hopefully he’s heeding our advice.
And while I’m on the subject, iPods are just as distracting if you’re scrolling through your playlist looking for a particular song while driving.
Those who have Crackberry will kill.
I never have a problem with idiots like this killing themselves. That's their right. I do have a problem with them doing something stupid while throwing a ton or more of metal down the road at forty five miles per hour and KILLING ME AND/OR MY LOVED ONES. I hope you can see the distinction.
Let them stay home and do something fun like operating electrical appliances while in the bathtub. Hopefully the maximum death toll will be one.
Texters, cell phone drivers...suddenly red lights and stop signs become invisible. Seen it time and time again.
I can't even fill in my cellphone's Phonebook correctly. Some entries are all upper case, some not.
(I'm series).
I completely agree. DWT is as lethal as DWI—maybe more so. And like DWI, it should be punished with heavy fines and/or jail time. Better yet, the punishment for driving while texting should be suspension of all cell phone use for at least 6 months. That might get their attention, although there’s probably no way to enforce it.
I think the term "blackberry" (even though it is a trademark name) is being used generically to refer to the text messaging cell phone device in general (much like "Kleenex" is used to refer to facial tissue or "band-aid" is used to refer to adhesive bandages or "Xerox" is used to refer to photocopiers) rather than acribing the texting phenomenon to the market share penetration of a particular brand. In fact, the "epidemic" obsession with texting is at the heart of the problem described by and lamented by the author - not the brand of cell phone used.
This is a case of all common sense fled. Common sense says, “Don’t distract yourself while operating heavy machinery.”
In today’s narcisstic, ‘it’s all about ME’ world, it’s perfectly OK to place both hands on top of your steering wheel, texting away with both thumbs whilst driving down a country road at 50 mph. I just saw this yesterday on Brunner
Road - un-frickin’-believable.
50?! Dang it ... I thought I was doing good at 26wpm while driving!
just kidding
Do you believe in “just a few common-sense gun control laws”?
Theres a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah
Gun laws designed to get guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens, no. But actually, guns in the hands of any citizen, law-abiding or not, kill far fewer than are killed in traffic accidents each year. That's not surprising, guns are safer that automobiles. And also used far less often day-to-day, even by policemen.
In sum, demanding that drivers drive safely saves lives. Restricting gun ownership does not save lives.
Seat-belt laws, however, are a nanny-state intrusion.
The way my dad had me dispose of the old oil after changing it in the 1970s would today be a felony, and that's just one example of the lowering of that bar.
Where in the second amendment does it say you can do that?
Show me they are not "People", and I will agree that "shall not be infringed" does not apply. Either they have paid for their crimes by completing their sentences, or they have not. Putting a man out on the street, while under color of law depriving him of the right to the means of self-defense, is an act of barbarous cruelty.
I agree, seatbelt (and bike helmet) laws suck. I use seatbelts by choice, but rankle at having to do so to get across a parking lot.
MORON author takes it out on "Blackberry" because this is the device he sees. He has NO CONCEPTION of reality.
He lives in his little row house, living his ultra liberal life, proving he is just another liberal idiot!
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