bunner: You know what? You can PRETEND that your whole f*cking life is a blithe social whirl that necessitates your being in constant touch with your amazingly interesting, just-like-the-people-on-TeeVee friends via ASCII or phone every breathless second of every ultra hip day, but you're still just sort of vain, ridiculous and typing on a hockey puck with your thumbs at 35 M.P.H. trying not to pow into somebody else on a second by second basis. And if you honestly can't see how laughable and lame and pretentious that is, at least try to hit an inanimate object when you finally sh*t the bed. Some people actually have lives and people who care about them enough to wait for them to get home.


bunner, I think that's the best post you've ever written.

they do that in Vietnam all the time on motorbikes, he do have a helmet and let the wife and 4-5 kids at home .. so not a normal photo

Britney Spear's Speculum: You could institute the death penalty to people caught texting while driving and people will still do it.

What would stop it would be if insurance companies increased rates, or dropped coverage for those caught.

Cheesus: I text occasionally when I drive (because my wife doesn't understand how to farking call me when I'm driving). Usually takes me a while because I'll move my finger to where I think the letter is, glance down to make sure, then look back at the road. Rinse repeat for a couple minutes until I've got the message typed out. I'm not stupid enough to take my eyes off the road while I type out a sentence.

/sometimes I wish I knew text-speak
//then I smack myself for daring not to use proper English when I'm texting

Your wife may be trying to kill you.

ArcadianRefugee: You do know what website you are one, right? This isn't exactly the weekly online gathering of Mensa candidates.

The ghetto is how, not where you live.

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TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS NOT THAT UNSAFE.



Seriously, people need to get a grip. I just read an article last week about how they want to ban all cell phone use in vehicles, including hands free.

It is SO incredibly ridiculous. Seriously. From a statistical standpoint. They cited 3,000 deaths related to cell phone/text use while driving.

Ok, so say 1/3 of the population drives. 100,000,000 drivers. 3,000 deaths? INCREDIBLY MINISCULE AMOUNT. Something like .00001%


Now, if you take into account the occurances of driving... as in most people probably drive at least once a day... so 100,000,000 times 365 days a year... you have a yearly chance of DUST to get into a fatal accident.

I actually researched lightning strikes. Approximately 400 people per year are struck by lightning. YOu're slightly more than 7 times as likely to be killed in a texting while driving accident as you are to be struck by lightning.

PEOPLE YOU NEED TO WAKE UP AND STOP LEGISLATING "SAFETY" AND REMOVING FREEDOM. YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED!!!!!

fluffy2097: scottydoesntknow: I can't stand seeing people using headphones while driving.

This is a thing? (beyond bluetooth headsets?)

Because I'm also quite positive it's highly illegal.

If that's "highly illegal", then I assume that deaf people are not allowed driver's licenses where you are?

Mr.BobDobalita: TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS NOT THAT UNSAFE.

MY ASS.

USING THE BIG, BOLD, AND CAPSLOCK OPTIONS MAKE MY OPINION MORE VALID THEN YOURS!


You've forgotten to include accidents where texting was the cause but nobody died.
How many people per year are injured by people texting?
How many people are HIT by texters per year, but nobody is injured at all.
How many near misses are caused by people texting?
How much money do insurance companies pay out to repair the cars of people who were hit by texters?

fluffy2097: USING THE BIG, BOLD, AND CAPSLOCK OPTIONS MAKE MY OPINION MORE VALID THEN YOURS!


You've forgotten to include accidents where texting was the cause but nobody died.
How many people per year are injured by people texting?
How many people are HIT by texters per year, but nobody is injured at all.
How many near misses are caused by people texting?
How much money do insurance companies pay out to repair the cars of people who were hit by texters?

Less than 3% of all accidents in Ohio were caused by distracted driving of ANY type. Texting/Cell phone use is a minority component of that 3% with the majority being blamed on non-cell phone related accidents comprising of other people in the car, kids in the car, radios, GPS units, and eating/drinking.

That's from a Ohio State Highway Patrol study ... you'd think the cops would inflate their figures, but nope, this is purely a media shiatstorm/moral outrage story. Go pound sand.

seadoo2006: Less than 3% of all accidents in Ohio were caused by distracted driving of ANY type. Texting/Cell phone use is a minority component of that 3% with the majority being blamed on non-cell phone related accidents comprising of other people in the car, kids in the car, radios, GPS units, and eating/drinking.

That's from a Ohio State Highway Patrol study ... you'd think the cops would inflate their figures, but nope, this is purely a media shiatstorm/moral outrage story. Go pound sand.


You have answered none of my questions and lack any citations.

Mr.BobDobalita: They cited 3,000 deaths related to cell phone/text use while driving.

3,000 completely unnecessary deaths.

Put the pacifier down.

Mithiwithi: farking subpoenas of wireless carrier records, how do they work?

You how long those can take for a municipal citation? And say someone was writing a text and it never sent or the person deleted it. No record and no proof; law enforcement will happily stick with inattentive driving.

basemetal: You should suspend their license as well as forbid them a cell phone for a year. That'll hurt em worse than anything.

/get a land line, biatch

This, though it may be difficult to enforce if they try getting a disposable phone. Maybe you need to be over 18 and prove it to buy them?