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scooter1369 said:
He does it be fore he leaves the house. Whichever house he woke up in that day...
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He's a slut ;-)

I would go on record as saying, that I am extremely careful to avoid other traffic whilst recieving road head. :biggrin: If I am lucky enough to get it.


It would seem to me that this would be very difficult to prove without it becoming a "he said, she said" type of issue.
 
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Dryden said:
StooGrimson is correct, there is ZERO excuse for it.
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There is ZERO (ooh all caps neato! :wink: ) excuse for failure to control your vehicle due to ANY distraction within the vehicle and there are already laws that cover those situations.

Singleing out cell phone users will do nothing to increase road safety. Passing a law doing such is typical political BS meant to appease groups who are having knee jerk reactions....and actually enforcing such a law will do little more than serve as a new source of revenue for State coffers.
 
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Muck said:
There is ZERO (ooh all caps neato! :wink: ) excuse for failure to control your vehicle due to ANY distraction within the vehicle and there are already laws that cover those situations.

Singleing out cell phone users will do nothing to increase road safety. Passing a law doing such is typical political BS meant to appease groups who are having knee jerk reactions....and actually enforcing such a law will do little more than serve as a new source of revenue for State coffers.
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Nearly 99 times out of 100 if I'm behind someone going about 10 mph under the speed limit on a city street or freeway, it's a cell phone user.

Not to mention the times that people nearly swerve into me on the road when they are changing lanes while talking.
 
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Thump said:
Nearly 99 times out of 100 if I'm behind someone going about 10 mph under the speed limit on a city street or freeway, it's a cell phone user.

Not to mention the times that people nearly swerve into me on the road when they are changing lanes while talking.
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I see the same thing every day. I also get to review at least 4-5 commercial auto insurance claims a month just in my small area in northern Kentucky involving someone talking on their phone. Many times the person gets nailed with a ticket for reckless op which forces me to boot them from their employers insurance policy (which gets them fired sometimes).

Singleing out cell phone users will do nothing to increase road safety. Passing a law doing such is typical political BS meant to appease groups who are having knee jerk reactions....and actually enforcing such a law will do little more than serve as a new source of revenue for State coffers.
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I wholeheartedly agree. The best thing that can be done is educating people to not talk and drive..or eat and drive...or change CD's and drive and so on. The threat of a ticket or fines won't deter anyone from talking and driving.
 
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Thump said:
Nearly 99 times out of 100 if I'm behind someone going about 10 mph under the speed limit on a city street or freeway, it's a cell phone user.
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And of course 64.7% of statistics are just made up on the spot. :)

Now if Cell Phones are causing a pandemic of vehicular catastrophies...why are accidents rates still declining at the same rate that they were previous to the proliferation of cell phone usage?

Accident rates are not climbing...the rates aren't even flattening out...they continue to decline unabated...
 
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Nearly 99 times out of 100 if I'm behind someone going about 10 mph under the speed limit on a city street or freeway, it's a cell phone user.
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Id have to agree with this. Now a days most of the time I see a driver do something stupid they have a phone on their ear. I really think the law should be hands free only. That way its no different than listening to the radio. Im sure cell phone use in cars costs us plenty in higher insurance premiums.
 
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The road along the coast into Cape Town is full of curves. Today, this lady in front of me keeps leaning to her left, then she disappears like she is laying down on the seat. Her car is weaving all over the road, into oncoming traffic, and then, presto, she's back at the wheel. But then she is weaving all over hell again. She disappears down below again and then I see it...

She's driving a bloody stick shift, holding a cell phone to her ear, and bending over to retrieve it when she drops it.

And it gets better. She's writing down instructions from someone with her other hand and steering with her leg. Simply unbelievable. I don't engage in road rage but I pulled up beside her at the next light and let her have a real piece of my mind.
 
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Steve19 said:
The road along the coast into Cape Town is full of curves. Today, this lady in front of me keeps leaning to her left, then she disappears like she is laying down on the seat. Her car is weaving all over the road, into oncoming traffic, and then, presto, she's back at the wheel. But then she is weaving all over hell again. She disappears down below again and then I see it...

She's driving a bloody stick shift, holding a cell phone to her ear, and bending over to retrieve it when she drops it.

And it gets better. She's writing down instructions from someone with her other hand and steering with her leg. Simply unbelievable. I don't engage in road rage but I pulled up beside her at the next light and let her have a real piece of my mind.
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The problem there isn't the cell phone. Its stupidity.
 
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Thump said:
Nearly 99 times out of 100 if I'm behind someone going about 10 mph under the speed limit on a city street or freeway, it's a cell phone user.

Not to mention the times that people nearly swerve into me on the road when they are changing lanes while talking.
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My favorite are the ass-noodles who are yaking on their phone, driving in the left lane, 20 mph below the speed limit. After getting 3/4-4/5 of the way where I'm going, stuck behind them the whole way, invariably a space opens up, at which time they hang up the phone, veer into the right lane, and speed up to 75 mph and start gesturing.
 
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Cell phones aren't the biggest problem. Old people and people who drive minivans fuck up every decent driver's universe.

And how about getting on the freeway RIGHT BEHIND some person who thinks it's a good idea to merge into traffic at 40 mph?

Also, I've noticed that the more ribbon magnets a car has, the shittier the driver is.
 
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