Damn cell phones

Have it's own guidance system? Sounds like a low powered torpedo with wheels!

==Nope, only the car it is UNDER

You waste your airtime on useless calls? The only people that get my cell number are people I want to reach me.

Happy modeming, Bill

I'm sorry, perhaps you didn't read what I was responding to. Obviously you can't pay attention. Thank you.

I don't use a home phone, I spend most of my time away from home. So I feel a cell phone is somewhat useful. However it does not require me to take your call when you call me. I am still allowed to use discretion. If I don't feel like calling someone back right away, I don't. Having a cell phone doesn't make me instantly accessible to anyone who wants to get a hold of me, it makes me instantly accessible to whoever I want to get a hold of. I control when I use it, and how I use it.

Seriously, when you drive, you pay attention to the road. If you take on the responsibility of doing something else while you are driving that becomes your problem. If you can't multitask and you cause a problem, then frankly you must pay for it. Much like no one made a law that you couldn't cook, watch the kids, and talk on the phone at home because you might knock the pot of boiling water onto your kid when you got the cord wrapped around it. Much like it isn't against the law to change the radio station, or change cd's, or anything else. It becomes something that we need to teach people responsibility. Not a law. Laws don't make things better, or safer, or any of that crap. Responsibility for ones own actions is the key.

I see people everyday that are talking on their cell phones, braking on the freeway for no reason, or cutting someone off, or some other stupid action. I still don't think a blanket law will help that. Laws just complicate life even more. We have too many laws. Everyones quick solution to everything is make a law. Laws don't make the world safe. If you want to make a change, start by teaching your kids.

for some reason telemarketers dont call cell phones, or at least mine. ive got virgin mobile, and it costs nothing to check my voicemail from my home phone.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the responsible organization if such a device got implemented and "El~Kayieeda" got their hands on it while Dick Cheney was driving along in a motorcade........

"Today, The Newly Elected President Was Killed When His Pacemaker Was Shut Off Accidentally By Law Enforcement Officials..."

Either that or a trial lawyer...

I say let an NGO handle the cell phone issue. Too many laws on the books as it is.

Firearms sound like the answer then,

widely available, widely used and only $0.45 per "use"

:-)

Lemme guess - you're in favor of banning conversations between driver and passenger(s) too, right? If not, you better be since there is no difference.

These geniuses in legislation have everyone so brainwashed that "cell phones" are bad and cause all these accidents.

What will their excuse be when they get all their laws passed and realize that it affected nothing?

Ahh, it's not worth it. Too many people just don't get it and refuse to take their blinders off.

Now this is the sort of clear thinking we need more of in DC! ;)

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You have to dial your passengers? Cool! And you can make 'em shut up with the "end" button? Cooler!

I think that you need control of the privacy glass for full effect ;-)

And you have to mentally visualize them as well?

The study i've heard about suggests that that is the major problem with cell phone usage while driving.

Don't tease me like that.

he never said he answered the phone, but with it being off, I thought that would be a given.

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judge and jury

The original rail is against someone using a cell phone for doing something good by helping strangers without regard to any factor other than need. That is humanitarianism. That is altruism. Hopefully, whether you were at fault or a victim, someone would do as much for you. As for the question posed; now that depends upon your point of view, doesn't it. It also depends upon the status of each, victim and drunk driver in their respective lives. The victim may be an outstanding citizen or considered by family and others as the worse human being to walk the earth. The drunk driver may be a pillar of the community why rarely drinks, but just happened to be celebrating the birth of a child, wedding of a daughter, or some other significant occasion.

So...."Are those convictions as bad as being a victim?"

1. If you are the victim, of course not.
2. If you are the drunk, depending upon your conscience, etc, it might be worse or might not be bad enough. In my years in law enforcement I have seen both.
3. If you are the family or friends of the victim, probably not, but I have seen families who felt relieved that the victim would be out of their lives for as long as possible.
4. If you happen to be someone who has endured a similar situation, though you don't know these people, probably not. For example, when my

12 year old son was run down by a school bus driver who, for reasons unknown, drove up on the sidewalk, hit my son, continued half a block to the intersection, across the intersection, went up an embankment, and dropped into a sunken driveway. I may be more inclined to be against the driver in any school bus accident. You might find it strange, but my former spouse and her husband both attended the trial and at sentencing, asked for leniency for the driver out of their religious beliefs.

1. If you are a total stranger, who has never had reason to have strong feelings one way or the other, you might think it enough, or not enough, or have no thought at all.

Perspective. After years of patrol work, I developed an attitude. Driving down the street, I could look at people and decide whether they were good or bad by the way they dressed and acted. One day I did that, and while checking out the individual, I found out it was a priest from the local church. That was when I realized that I sorely needed an attitude adjustment.

From many years of law enforcement, until I retired, I learned that things are not always as they appear at first sight. I have investigated accidents where it was obvious who was at fault... UNTIL I conducted the investigation, and found the evidence proved the other driver to be at fault.

Would you reaction be the same if the driver were a fireman who had just spend a great many hours at Ground Zero saving lives, and nodded off while driving home? Would you, inn either position, want someone to call for help, or would you prefer they ignore the accident and continue on their way.

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