Must be a ton of little people here because those buttons are so damn small that any average size person is unable to *not* hit 2 buttons at once.

Jeezuz. Phones are made for talking.

By the way, I belive I am officially old - I've never actually text messaged anyone. I also dont have a myspace account. Of course, I'm still 30 years from getting the early bird dinner discount, but I'm still old.

/does anyone else think it's annoying that just about every myspace webpage has sound? Makes it tough to surf for twelve year olds while I'm at work...

BobtheFish

Oh my god. Either "nice troll" or "get your head out of your ass". Pick one.

Gradatim

Assuming I read your post correctly, you're assuming I think I'm one of those people. Well, you are absolutely correct. I have been driving for six years now and have yet to be in an accident, let alone cause one. Stick to commenting on stuff you have a clue about. Like fantasizing about your mother.

Hey, everybody! puddle privateer's been driving for six whole years!

LMAO @ "OMFG IJHAC" !!!
txt msgng wl drvng is teh suxorz

/also pathetic for instantly being able to read headline

granolasteak: I passed a guy yesterday who was READING THE NEWSPAPER while driving 50 miles an hour. If we hadn't been going in opposite directions, I'd have followed him and gotten all kinds of nasty.

I saw a lady eating a KFC mashed potatoes, colesaw and chicken with a fork.

/sometimes text while I drive, and suddenly realize its not that important and wait until red lights. damned good with the t9 though.

"but it's my car and nobody has the right to tell me what to do in my in it." Yeah i tried that too, they still confiscated the bottle of vodka...
and gin
and rum
stupid cops trampling our rights!

Cops are even more guilty of this than anyone. What do you think they use those in-car computers for? That's right, messaging each other.

I've seen cops steer with their knees so they could type with both hands.

HOTD, week even.

ToxicMunkee

well, seeing as how cell phones haven't been popular/affordable for a whole lot longer than that, it doesn't matter much beyond that, does it? Also how many people can say they've been completely accident free for that long? Not trying to be a dick, I'm just saying driving while talking on a cell phone is not always dangerous. It is if you're not capable of concentrating on the two seperate things at once.

my friend would do it while i was in the car. i tried it once and completely missed an interchange and it added an hour to my commute. I'm glad i learned my lesson without killing anyone.

He should be made to wear his cellphone in his ass for the duration of the officer's hospitalization.

/and he does not get to set it to "vibrate"

Hell Toupee I hit a cop once.

I totaled a police cruiser (and my parent's Mercury) when I broadsided it running a red light I didn't see.

Whoops.

/OMFG IJRARLATAPC(AMPM) W!

I have read, txt'd, eaten, talked on my cell, put on makeup, etc, all while driving. I'm not going to apologize, but I'm not going to pretend like it's ok either.

/I hope my insurance agent isn't in this thread

Wow. Definitly HOTD, possibly HOTW or even HOTM.

Tanthalas39

Interestingly enough, capitalization errors are not "grammatical mistakes." They are, in fact, punctuation errors. Strikes me as ironic that a nit picker such as yourself wouldn't catch the difference.

So are we just supposed to strip all non essential electonics, and anything else that also gets in the wat of driving? Fine, get rid of radios and Cd players, GPS, airconditioning. Hell maybe well just get rid of windows since looking down for that split second might be too long for some of you control freaks. Maybe there should be a wall between the passengers and the driver. Why don't we all just drive big farking foam boxes around that don't do higher than 5 miles and hour.

What next, I can't talk or text in my own home if I'm using a gas oven? You saftey Nazis need to come to terms that unfortunate things happen sometimes and even when you tighten the screws to make your world a pretty little perfect place something will still go wrong with it.

FuturePastNow

....

most ppl who can type w/ two hands doesn't require to look at the keys and can therefore look out the window when steering w/ their knees :P of course... they may have some typos...

IJHAC=I Just Hit A Cop

/not submitter
//wish i was
///well played, submitter!

IJHAC = I Just Hit A Cop... duhhhh

"I just hit a cop", although, "I just farking hit a cop" works well too.

Assuming that was a serious question, SlothB77, IJHAC = I Just Hit A Cop

Where do I begin?
I took a little road trip this past weekend, I saw about everything your not supposed to do in a car.
The best three had to be:
The chick brushing her teeth.
The guy getting road head - Not kidding, and my wife said no.
The arse hole hillbilly on his way out of Cabela's with a truck that shouldn't have been on the road hauling 2 canoes, 2 bikes, a 4-wheeler, what looked like a dog house, and a pop up camper older than me. I guess with enough bungee cords and duct tape anything is street worthy.

I was worried about that one.

People you are driving a 3-5 thousand pound piece of metal at 80 mph with 80,000 pound semi's around you. Wake up, read your book/paper at home, do your make-up at home, turn on your damn headlights and farking drive.

/I feel much better.

GenXer

Yer right!

EL_FARBREZ

No. You can douse yourself in gasoline and play with matches while you text, as long as you do it in your own home and don't put other people at risk. I hate personal safety laws - I don't even think you need to wear a seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet (and save the insurance arguments, I've heard it) - but if you're putting someone else at risk - driving drunk, disobeying traffic laws, etc - then hell yeah I'm gonna be a 'safety Nazi' and legislate against it.

Your rant makes no sense, by the way. "Hell maybe well just get rid of windows since looking down for that split second might be too long for some of you control freaks." What? Getting rid of windows, looking down... what? Giving you the benefit of the doubt here (which is being VERY charitable) I think that you are clearly being dramatic. Ambient music, air conditioning, and other things of that nature (Wes!) are not considered by the majority of people to be distracting enough to warrant laws against. Cell phones, and especially text messaging on cell phones... a lot of people think differently.

I Just Farking Hit A Cop?
I Jump For Hairy Animal Cooters.

Take your pick?

I'd like to add to the "I'm ashamed I could read the headline without thinking about it" crowd.

/isn't a tween
//obviously a nerd
///and a slashy lover!!!
////NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!

I used to be one of those people that shaved, ate, whatever while driving. Now, I have to do *none* of those things so I can have my complete attention on the road in order to avoid all the assholes on cellphones. I have a hands free phone so I can still talk in an emergency, but I rarely answer it.

\two near misses yesterday, had to swerve to miss being sideswiped.
\watched a guy in his silverado get t-boned right in front of me. He missed the light because he was talking on his cel.
\watched I guy eating his cereal (OMFG!!!) sideswipe the median, cross three lanes and end up in the opposite ditch.
\... on his roof :)

EL_FABREZ: What next, I can't talk or text in my own home if I'm using a gas oven?

It depends - does your gas oven weigh a couple of tons and speed down public highways?

The crash caused the police car to spin around and hit the officer, who was thrown into the air on an Interstate 94 ramp

Thats a site I would pay to see. I wonder how high he flew up in the air... did the drive even care?

2006-08-28 05:37:18 PM SlothB77

what does IJFHAC mean?

I Just Farking Had A Cow.

/My WEENER LOLd

EL_FARBREZ
Heaven forbid you farking drive!

You must live in OHIO!
Every natural born asshat that has some type of license drives in farking OHIO.

God I can't stand morons like you.
Your license doesn't say anything about eating, texting, talking on phone, it says DRIVERS!

I have no problem with you txting behind the wheel as long as you don't put my life as a pedestrian or fellow commuter at risk.

The list of devices that rarely (but sometimes)contributes to accidents:
CD-Players/Radios
Handsfree electronic devices
Rear-Mounted Television
Screaming Children

The list of devices that almost always contributes to accidents:
Cellphones in hand
Handheld mirrors
Food in hand and on Lap
Drugs and Alcohol

Note that in the first list, not a single device under normal operation requires that you hold on to it for any sort of duration when you should be driving. These should not be regulated as having an accident involving these is probably unlucky at best.

Anything that requires to you to remove two hands from the steering wheel (or prevents full instantaneous use of your faculties) for any reasonable length of time should be regulated as impaired driving as it puts the general public at risk in ways that are similar to a classic drunk driver.
This is what laws are for, protection of the public, not YOUR right to drive with one hand or a knee or your manboobs while being a complete and total farkwad asshat.

If you are said asshat, your accident might not come today, but I assure you it is inevitable- wether you are the cause, or the victim CONGRATULATIONS YOUR CHANCES OF AN ACCIDENT HAVE LIKELY INCREASED 10 FOLD BECAUSE OF YOUR ASSHATTERY. It has nothing to do with how good a driver you think you are, you will be surprised one day while you are chatting on your cellphone, scarfing a bagel and coffee while you do your makeup, reading the newspaper on the freeway. Farking Asshats.

USE PREPOSITIONS!

I've read and responded to email while driving before. Yeah, I guess that's pretty bad, huh? I don't know. On an open highway, it just doesn't seem dangerous. I suppose it is. =/

/open meaning not all that much traffic and highway meaning multiple laned, relatively straight road, btw...

puddle privateer: riving and talking on a cell phone isn't so bad if you are capable of concentrating on more than one thing at a time.

Everyone can concentrate on more than one thing at a time. You're not special just because you can, everyone can do it.

The problem is your division of attention. Because you're not paying attention to your driving 100% of the time, your chance of missing important cues goes up.

The difference between someone who is dividing their attention and gets into an accident and someone who is also dividing their attention and doesn't is that person A missed a cue and person B didn't miss a cue. That doesn't mean person B can't miss a cue, ever - person B simply was lucky and happened to be paying attention to the road during the critical window of opportunity.

Divide your attention and you'll pay the penalty, sooner or later.


/Drives a small car so I can avoid morons
//I don't even talk on the phone while driving
///Amazing how bent out of shape some people get over the 90mins each day that I'm incommunicado

About as bad as when me and a few friends were outside.. a car comes down the street, swerves one way then the other, then crashes right into the neighbor's car and shoves it into the fence.

Police arrive and the reason is... *drum roll please*

Guy in the passenger seat tried to flick a booger on him!!!

/true
//not a joke
///nice ticket awarded for his stupidity

MonkeyBoy666: The problem is your division of attention. Because you're not paying attention to your driving 100% of the time, your chance of missing important cues goes up.


I'll be ok with banning cell phones while driving when passengers, radios, cd players, navigation units, dvd players, food, drink, make-up and anything else not having to do with actual driving is banned.

Credit South Park for the sand in the vag or at least for popularizing it. Its been in circulation for a while now.

cheap_thoughts: I am ashamed to admit this, but I text message when I drive. :(

I did that at one point (a short period of about a month - it was female-related). Then I rear-ended someone while being absent-minded (not text messaging). That was sortof a wake-up call. Haven't held a phone while driving since that. I'm pretty much afraid of operating the radio at this point.

Ballz: Cellphones in hand
Handheld mirrors
Food in hand and on Lap
Drugs and Alcohol

You should probably add poor vehicle maintenance to that list.

I've got friends who are blithely happy to drive around on bald tires, even though we're in areas which see a lot of snowfall each winter. A mounted set of tires runs them $200, tops, yet they'll happily spend $300+ on concert tickets, Star Wars toys, and god knows how many thousands of $$$ in movie DVDs.


/You damn children need to grow up

Well done, submitter.

Laughed out loud in the computer lab.

I think Tiger Woods uses steroids.

This is one of those times when I'm sad to be in the same species as some people.

If you can't just accept that driving requires, both ethically and morally, your entire attention then at least have the intelligence to shut up about how you HAVE to talk on the phone, text message, read a book, etc. etc. while driving. Is that phone call worth someone's life? (well, if YOU happen to die while texting I'm all for it, but there's sadly no guarantee that'll happen)