Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea

[beacon1]

Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#0

Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:56pm

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051202/D8E829680.html

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[BobbyBubby]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#1

Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:58pm

1 year for murder? They got off easy.

[Unknown User]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#2

Posted: 12/2/05 at 1:02pm

Oh man that's horrible!


I rear-ended another car over the summer cuz it was a green light and I thought everyone was moving along so I glanced down for a second to check my text message. Next thing I know, bam! (Ew that sounded disgustingly Emeril.) Oops. Luckily, not much damage since I wasn't going fast at all. From now on I don't touch my phone when I'm driving.

[SorryGrateful]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#3

Posted: 12/2/05 at 1:36pm

That teenager deserves a lot more prison time for freaking KILLING A PERSON! I think there should be laws instituted punishing those who are being idiots and hurt someone with their idiocy.

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[shiksa_goddess]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#4

Posted: 12/2/05 at 1:46pm

Who the hell would be stupid enough to look at a text message, write a text message,or for that matter do anything that involves use of their digits while driving? Seriously...are we all losing our common sense now? These things infuriate me. Cellphones belong in the glove-compartment while the owner is driving, nowhere else..well save a purse.

[Unknown User]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#5

Posted: 12/2/05 at 1:56pm

I know. *hangs head* I was impatient.

Not as bad as putting makeup on while driving though. Imagine that mascara wand going straight into your eye.

[JailyardGuy]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#6

Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:03pm

I would pay money to see someone's mascara wand enter their eyeball if they were putting it on while driving.

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[JailyardGuy]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#7

Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:07pm

I know I shouldn't be, but I can't help but be surprised by the bottomless depth of the stupidity of the human race. What kind of colossal fking retard would apply makeup, send a text message, or read ANYTHING BUT A GODDAMN ROAD SIGN, while operating a 2000+ lb. piece of machinery moving 50 mph?

Some people really just shouldn't be allowed out of their homes. Or to live.

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[RobbO]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#8

Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:11pm

are these the same people who have to make/answer cell phones in theatres and now text people. why cannot you morons sit still for two hours and behave?!?

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[JailyardGuy]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#9

Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:16pm

Preach ON, Sister Soul.

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[Plum]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#10

Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:21pm

I think there should be laws instituted punishing those who are being idiots and hurt someone with their idiocy.

Uh, there are. Manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide come to mind. They probably went easy on this kid because he's a kid, and kids are generally idiots. And yes, I realize I'm only 3 years older than the person in question.

[RobbO]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#11

Posted: 12/2/05 at 2:24pm

idiot.

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[paradox_error]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#12

Posted: 12/2/05 at 4:15pm

It's illegal to even touch your phone while driving in Australia.

Is it similar in the states?

[Madame X2]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#13

Posted: 12/2/05 at 7:00pm

It should be, but unfortunately it isn't.

[Calvin]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#14

Posted: 12/2/05 at 8:21pm

Is it similar in the states?

Different states have different laws. Here in New Jersey, for example, I think it's illegal to talk on a cell phone while driving, but a cop couldn't stop you just for talking on the phone -- he'd have to find some other reason to pull you over and add that charge to it.

Other states are tougher, and some don't have any laws on it at all. But if you cause an accident while on the phone, I think police can use that to jack up the charges as reckless driving no matter what the law is on cell phones.

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

re: Text-messaging while driving...not a good idea#15

Posted: 12/2/05 at 8:55pm

I've only jumped a curb while texting, but I've honed my skills and I now don't have to look at the keypad.