Texting-while-driving truck driver crashes into swimming pool (2 phones at once)

Buffalo News ^ | July 30, 2009

[Bratch]

[Electric Graffiti]

“horrible ‘Convoy’ song!!”

Hey don’t go dissing CW Mcall....He’s one of my favs :)
Played all his records incessantly as a kid.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Red X fail.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

"What is texting"

It's the modern version of the telegram.

The other day a friend of mine was wondering what if they had invented texting in its current form before the invented the voice telephone? When people got the new voice technology wouldn't they think that "texting" would be rather old fashioned? Why text when you could now actually talk to someone live?!

[org.whodat]

I don't think anyone ever wrecked texting on a CB. LOL

[the long march]

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[This Just In]

A true story.

Once a good friend of mine was doing a comedy routine on stage when an audience members phone rang. My friend grabbed the phone and told whomever was on the line that their friend “...can’t come out to play right now.”

There were no cell phone calls during the routine after that incident.

[RoadTest]

Preisch said the flatbed truck was towing two vehicles, with two motor cycles on the bed. - (and talking on a cell phone while textig on another!)

[RoadTest]

Preisch said the flatbed truck was towing two vehicles, with two motor cycles on the bed. - (and talking on a cell phone while textig on another!)

[RoadTest]

“spelig”- that’s East German.

[RoadTest]

“textig” is South Polish.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

wow. a windows-bashing hijack on the first post! don’t see that everyday.

LOL, I agree, what a special day this is indeed.

[Travis T. OJustice]

"Towing two cars adds a whole lot of inertia."

No, it doesn’t.

Yes, it does.

[Travis T. OJustice]

I don't think anyone ever wrecked texting on a CB. LOL

Nope, you're correct, but damn did the government sure hate people having them. IIRC, 2 states made them illegal, unconstitutionally.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Hey if Bill Gates can’t get Windows to multi-task without crashing, why should a human expect too?!

That same human who can't multitask must be the one that built our I-Pod. It can't play a "single" song without crashing.

[Lou L]

The other day a friend of mine was wondering what if they had invented texting in its current form before the invented the voice telephone? When people got the new voice technology wouldn't they think that "texting" would be rather old fashioned? Why text when you could now actually talk to someone live?!

Hilarious!

I'm sure there was probably something earlier, but I can remember in the early 90's, using the VMS operating system's "phone" feature, while in college. We even had a programmatic equivalent of a status indicator, showing who was online at any given moment.

[-YYZ-]

OK, it’s at least debatable whether a law against using a cellphone while driving is necessary - some people can manage it, some people can’t, so it’s not by definition careless. Texting, on the other hand, requires taking your eyes off the road for extended periods, so by definition it’s careless (like reading or watching a movie while driving), which we already have laws against.

[Constitution Day]

What are you thinking, T?

He has that oh-so-special box around his words. Therefore, all his posts are correct, and are more important than ours.

;^)

[Electric Graffiti]

"The other day a friend of mine was wondering what if they had invented texting in its current form before the invented the voice telephone? When people got the new voice technology wouldn't they think that "texting" would be rather old fashioned? Why text when you could now actually talk to someone live?!"

Exactly...I never understood the phenomenon.

[Travis T. OJustice]

LOL!

He must be smarter than Newton, Newton never had a box around his text.