[ridenrain]

Here's my bitch for the day.
We've seen study after study showing cell phone drivers are as bad as drunks but they refuse to crack down on them because they view it as an "unenforceable" law.
Well now Vancouver city hall will be ticketing cars & trucks that are idling for more than 3 minutes. How the hell do they expect to enforce that? "City officials say they expect most of the enforcement will happen through complaints from private citizens and businesses."
Why couldn't they simply do that for cell phone drivers? If they needed, they could demand the phone bills and check to see if the phone was in use at the time of the accident.
What is the hold up with getting these cell phone drivers off the road?

[canadian1971]

It's been illegal in Nf & Lab for over 3 years now. I think hands free is ok but the hand helds are not. How well this is working I have no idea.

[bossdog]

Whay if a guy pulls over on the side of the road to make a phone call for more than 3 minutes while idling his car? Does one cancel the other out?

[Wullu]

canadian1971 wrote:

It's been illegal in Nf & Lab for over 3 years now. I think hands free is ok but the hand helds are not. How well this is working I have no idea.

I watched a guy do his own version of hands free the other day. Only he was hands free driving. One hand with a cell phone and the other gesturing to the world. I wasted no time getting ahead of this moron.

[fatbasturd]

I was stopped at the secne of an accident two years ago this month....the police had the four way blocked off in all directions.
There were five police cars, two fire trucks and a rescue squad in the intersection, I was the last vehicle in line from the left lane entering the intersection and guess what....a lady driving this huge suv ran right up my ass while she was talking on the phone.
Sixty two hundred dollars worth the damage to my car ...and she had the fucking nerve to tell the cop that her foot sliped of the brake and hit the gas while she was stopped behind me.
I have never heard a policeman laugh so hard in my life...ps it took every bit of fortitude I had not to punch her.

[Newfy]

In the UK it's been illegal for over a year now to use your cell phone while driving unless you are using a hands free kit. I still, however, see people everyday chatting away on their phone while they're driving. It annoyes the hell out of me.

[bootlegga]

Actually studies have shown it doesn't make a difference if it's a hands-free set or not, both are equally distracting.

I agree that cell phone users should pull off the road and make their call, not drive along chatting. I've nearly been run off the road half a dozen times this summer by some dumbass in his giant pickup gabbing on his cell phone...

[Tricks]

I was ina car once with a guy holding his cell with one hand, writing on his knee with the other, and steering with the other knee. Think about that for a second.

[ridenrain]

I was crossing the Port Mann bridge one morning when this Blazer chose to share the lane with me. I hit the horn, the brakes and when I gave him the finger, I noticed the guy on the cell phone and the RCMP shoulder flash. Pissed me off and I was tempted to follow him to work and rag at him but thought better of it.

[Calgary123]

I agree. There is nothing more annoying than almost getting side-swiped on the Deerfoot than some idiot on his/her cell phone.

The other day, I was at a 4 way stop in a mall... I was next to enter the intersection, and this bitch in her hummer while talking on her cell phone blew right through the intersection on my right side. Had I not been watching her from a distance, and predicting this based on her not slowing down, It would have been ugly.

I think I scared the shite out of her after some mild road rage... in the form of an angry loud mustang coming right up her ass with me leaning on the horn. In my younger days, I might have followed her to the next light, then got out of the car and gave her a piece of my mind.

Bitch.

Now I feel better.

[Tricks]

My brother would have got in front of her, backed up a little so that he was right on her bumper, and melted a hole through it and drove off. Some asshole who was riding him and his friend got right on their ass at a light. Fire melted that shit pretty quick. Fucking cheap ass plastic rice mobiles.

[Zipperfish]

I saw a guy eating a sub wiht one hand, talking on his cell with the other and making a left turn with his knees. Not too smart when (a) you're right in front of a cop shop and (b) there is a cop right behind you at the light. I was glad to see him get a ticket.

INterestingly, though, a study (admittedly about four years old now) dhowed that hands-free models were just as distracting as hand-held models of cell phones. That doesn't strike me as intuitive, just because of the physical coordination requried to hold a phone. I wonder if there's been any studies since.

[BartSimpson]

Tricks wrote:

I was ina car once with a guy holding his cell with one hand, writing on his knee with the other, and steering with the other knee. Think about that for a second.

He was holding his Timmy's with his....

[Tricks]

BartSimpson wrote:

Tricks wrote:

I was ina car once with a guy holding his cell with one hand, writing on his knee with the other, and steering with the other knee. Think about that for a second.

He was holding his Timmy's with his....

middle of the day a little before lunch. No Timmy's yet.

[Richard]

I believe that people that cannot drive talking to someone in the vehicle or on a phone probably couldn't drive their own finger up thier ass in the first place. It would seem to me that they have the attention capabilities of a knat and shouldn't have a licence to start with.
Everyone is so keen on making everyone conform to their own idea of a perfect world. It is enough to make a person puke.....but not while driving.