« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Beer and texting  (Read 1751 times)

Perd Hapley

  • Superstar of the Internet
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 62,153
  • My prepositions are on/in
Beer and texting
« on: August 27, 2009, 07:34:37 PM »
Missouri has now banned Driving While Texting - for those under 21. 

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/644158E19F4DF0E78625761F003F6B73?OpenDocument

No doubt the new Missouri tradition for a young person's twenty-first birthday will be a crazy night at the club, followed by a pleasant driving/texting session.  Bottoms and cellphones up, baby!
Report to moderator   Logged
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?
--Thomas Jefferson

Regolith

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 6,178
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2009, 07:43:05 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 27, 2009, 07:34:37 PM
Missouri has now banned Driving While Texting - for those under 21. 

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/644158E19F4DF0E78625761F003F6B73?OpenDocument

No doubt the new Missouri tradition for a young person's twenty-first birthday will be a crazy night at the club, followed by a pleasant driving/texting session.  Bottoms and cellphones up, baby!

Couple of months ago, as I was heading to my grandmother's place, I came up behind a guy doing about 10 under the speed limit, weaving back and forth, blocking traffic, and generally being a complete hazard to everyone around him. 

When the traffic finally let up to the point where I could pass the asshat, I look over and see a middle-aged looking guy, busily texting away on his damn cellphone. 

To date, he's the only guy I've ever seen doing it.  Almost reported him, because he was driving like he was drunk. 
Report to moderator   Logged
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

Hawkmoon

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 27,776
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2009, 09:24:03 PM »
Drivers who text or gab on cell phones without hands-free devices don't even rate setting phasers on stun. Go directly to photon torpedoes.
Report to moderator   Logged
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
100% Politically Incorrect by Design

Paragon

  • friend
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 125
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2009, 09:53:59 AM »
Yeah, I'm pretty guilty of this.  Just the other day I was on-call for work and was driving with one cell phone up to my ear and another one in my hand writing an email.  But, I'm in NoVA, so I think you have to do it around here to fit in. 
Report to moderator   Logged

alex_trebek

  • friend
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 462
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2009, 10:05:20 AM »
In Indiana a law passed right before I got my driver's license.  The law had nothing to do with cell phones, it just banned people under 18 from driving with others for the first 90 days with their license.  The idea was that friends would be too much of a distraction for an inexperienced driver.

The exception was that the person's friend(s) had to be under 21.  Most immediately pointed out that this law was encouraging 16 year old drivers to ferry around people who could legally buy alcohol.
Report to moderator   Logged

BridgeRunner

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,845
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2009, 11:09:22 AM »
Quote from: Paragon on September 01, 2009, 09:53:59 AM
Yeah, I'm pretty guilty of this.  Just the other day I was on-call for work and was driving with one cell phone up to my ear and another one in my hand writing an email.  But, I'm in NoVA, so I think you have to do it around here to fit in. 

Wtf?

So, is being drunk when you're driving on Friday night is ok, because it helps you fit in?
Report to moderator   Logged

Jamisjockey

  • Booze-fueled paragon of pointless cruelty and wanton sadism
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 26,580
  • Your mom sends me care packages
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2009, 11:11:41 AM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on September 01, 2009, 11:09:22 AM
Wtf?

So, is being drunk when you're driving on Friday night is ok, because it helps you fit in?

Sarcasm fail.
Around here (that would be NoVA) it's a serious suburban rat race.  You see people on the phone driving more than not, or texting or facebooking from the driver's seat. 
Report to moderator   Logged
JD

 The price of a lottery ticket seems to be the maximum most folks are willing to risk toward the dream of becoming a one-percenter. “Robert Hollis”

brimic

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 14,270
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2009, 11:27:45 AM »
I thought this thread was going to be about this site: http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/
Report to moderator   Logged
"now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb" -Dark Helmet

"AK47's belong in the hands of soldiers mexican drug cartels"-
Barack Obama

Gewehr98

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 11,010
  • Yee-haa!
    • Neural Misfires (Blog)
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2009, 12:26:38 PM »
Just friggin' scary, that's what it is.

There are inattentive driving laws already on the books that *should* cover such idiocy, though...
Report to moderator   Logged
"Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

http://neuralmisfires.blogspot.com

"Never squat with your spurs on!"

BlueStarLizzard

  • Queen of the Cislords
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 15,039
  • Oh please, nobody died last time...
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2009, 02:38:44 PM »
i will admit to reading texts or checking facebook at stoplights. but i put the phone down when it turns green. if i am so in need of texting i will pull over or have a passenger do it. so far i never have needed too. i don't even like talking on the phone while driving (and i don't have a handsfree) but then again, i don't like talking just to talk on the phone anyway.

Report to moderator   Logged
"Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --" -Malcolm Reynolds

Paragon

  • friend
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 125
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2009, 02:43:12 PM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on September 01, 2009, 11:09:22 AM
Wtf?

So, is being drunk when you're driving on Friday night is ok, because it helps you fit in?

Sorry, my sarcasm was definitely missed...firstly, I was referring ONLY to texting while driving, I'd never drive drunk.  Secondly, around this area it's unusual to see someone without a phone in their hand, it seems, which what I trying to joke about (albeit poorly).  Truthfully, I'll check mine when stopped at a light/in traffic, but other than that, I don't mess with it much, except when I'm on call for work, and if I need to write an email, I pull over. 
Report to moderator   Logged

Strings

  • APS Pimp
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,195
Re: Beer and texting
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2009, 03:32:47 PM »
I'm with Brimic...
Report to moderator   Logged
No Child Should Live In Fear

What was that about a pearl handled revolver and someone from New Orleans again?

Screw it: just autoclave the planet (thanks Birdman)
Pages: [1]
« previous next »