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Topic: D0N'T TEXT & DRIVE! (Read 983 times)
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TwinGates
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Driving home tonight, sent stock price info. to a friend of mine w/the last name Donovan. A few minutes later, got this reply: "Who IS this?"
Thinking 'how rude'!, was about to fire off a snappy retort when I noticed sender's name: Robert Dover.
Whoops!  Lesson for the day, don't text and drive!
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Joy
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On a more serious note, one of the fastest growing reasons for teen accidents is texting and driving. Recently, 3 teenagers were killed when their car swerved into oncoming traffic. The reason? The driver was trying to send a text message.
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On the note of dangerous driving, I had an episode yesterday with some ##$%%^^%$ with a bad case of road rage. He, for no reason practically pushed my car almost all the way from town to the subdivision were I live. I was going 60 in a 55, and he had plenty of space to pass. He chose to ride my bumper. I tap the brakes to back him off before my left turn. He proceeds to pass me. I flip him off. He RAMS my car with his truck (which may not have been his - who plays bumper-cars with his own, bright, shiny, new SUV?) and sends my car flying off the road towards a pole. Missed the pole, avoided rolling over (good thing, as the car was full of ladders and other tools), but did not get control fast enough to get a positive ID of make and model or the license tag before he headed over the hill. I'm now thinking of getting a cell phone so that I can be an insta-rat to the cops on guys like this when I see them on the road. Anybody else in favor of a database where citizens can send license #'s of dangerous drivers? X number of reports gets the person a trip to court and/or driving school? This could apply to texters, cell phone users, makeup artists and drunks.
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Joy
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Did you see the driver? Sometimes a good description of car and driver can help.
I'm not in favor of databases for ANYTHING legal. Too much opportunity for our public "servants" to abuse it, as they have been doing all along. Also, what you described was an actual act of agression; i.e., you were harmed by his actions. Potential problems IMO do not warrant legal interference.
The government, in case you don't know, is NOT your friend. It is there ONLY to protect your rights. Nothing more. If you don't have the right and authority to tell someone they can't use their cell-phone, etc., then how do you give that authority to the legislature and the courts? If this all sounds new and foreign, I suggest you read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers.
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