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If you rigged the phones so that THIS popped up on their screens, I think the problem would take care of itself in no time.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | September 28, 2009 at 03:17 PM
Patti (never met her, not related) was 3 or 4 cars behind me on November 2. I say we bring back Drawing and Quartering. Also, we don't need more legislation - we already have a law that says you keep both hands on the wheel while you are driving. Lets just enforce that.
-Sent via my Blackberry
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | September 28, 2009 at 03:17 PM
I suggest a bumper sticker:
PLEASE DO NOT USE THE HANDS FREE
OPTION ON YOUR STEERING WHEEL
Posted by: oneblankspace | September 28, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Drive Only! Don't be a twitterbug!
Posted by: spicesea | September 28, 2009 at 03:22 PM
*Snork @ Obs*
What if we combine the comments of MtB and DPC (MtBDPC) and create steering wheels that play 'Lola' or 'Mandy' loudly, whenever there are less than two hands on it.
Posted by: NotSherly | September 28, 2009 at 03:31 PM
Tase 'em, bro!
Posted by: Allen at Division | September 28, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Waterboarding.
Posted by: Siouxie | September 28, 2009 at 03:52 PM
If you're caught, you have to perform a week of community service which will require you to travel through airport security up to five times a day.
Posted by: cowhand214 | September 28, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Make 'em overnight in a sleeping bag full of badgers.
Posted by: bonmot | September 28, 2009 at 03:59 PM
Make em cln up litr on the side of the hway (sory. I'm textng whle drivng)
Posted by: Braniff | September 28, 2009 at 04:05 PM
I think this tends to drive the point home.
(Yes, I have that on my car. No, nobody has vandalized it yet. Yes, I have gotten comments from people that like it. Including a Sheriff's Deputy.)
Posted by: Chris S. | September 28, 2009 at 04:09 PM
I like that one Chris S!
How about we squirrelize 'em.
Posted by: Siouxie | September 28, 2009 at 04:21 PM
At a soccer tournament last Memorial Day with a kajillion kids running around, about 2/3 of the drivers were on cell phones, including a pretty good percentage of people who were texting.
Balls flying around... kids running into traffic... younger siblings breaking away from parents... it was pretty much the worst case scenario for inattentive driving.
My suggestion to the organizers is to use one of the side streets as a "holding pen" for drivers who cannot get off their phones. Kids, traffic and phones do not mix well.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | September 28, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Sentence them to undergo one or more surgical procedures performed by Dr. Berry Black, the Texting Surgeon. His anesthetist will out in the hallway, near a window, trying to get a signal.
Repeat offenders get a vasectomy or a facelift, depending on gender.
Posted by: Betsy | September 28, 2009 at 04:26 PM
It's against the law here, in SoCal, but you wouldn't know it by the amount of people who are on the phone -
The people that are the worst offenders are the people who should NOT, IN ANY WAY, be distracted - and those are the youngest drivers.
Today, on my way to work, there were 2 accidents on my windy, hilly, canyon commute; the people standing outside their cars ? Teenagers - on the phone ! *sigh*
Posted by: Account Deleted | September 28, 2009 at 04:43 PM
I agree. NO texting. At least I only need ONE hand to hold my
beer cancofee when I drive.Posted by: Punkin | September 28, 2009 at 05:26 PM
I keep telling people, it not "hand free" that makes it safer, because your brain is still involved in something other than seeng and processing all the information necessary for driving.100% concetration on driving is needed.
Posted by: desoto | September 28, 2009 at 05:28 PM
Every person who drives and talks/texts/whatever thinks that THEY are okay. THEY can pay attention to both. It's those OTHER people.
Newsflash...you're not that important that the phone call can't wait.
Posted by: gjd | September 28, 2009 at 05:38 PM
Dude. I got the spirograph thingy.
Posted by: gjd | September 28, 2009 at 05:38 PM
I think Slence of the Lambs had a pretty good device that could be modified.... after I pull out of the parking lot I'll post the link.
Posted by: Tash | September 28, 2009 at 05:53 PM
Raise the driving age to 40?
My daughter got a ticket last year for driving 62 in a 55 zone. That same day, I saw three state patrol officers in the same area driving over 70 without emergency lights on. Two of these were on cell phones.
Hypocrisy is a poor teaching tool.
I know this isn't funny but it irritates me.
Posted by: Steve | September 28, 2009 at 06:30 PM
Geezer alert:
It KILLS me to admit this, but I find that I need to concentrate more on my driving. I had one accident in my whole life at age 19, and never had a ticket until last year and I've been driving since I was 16 in 1972. Things I used to take for granted, like peripheral vision, and sensing when a car is too close, seems to have diminished somewhat. Wearing glasses while driving is a must now, particularly at night. I think I'm going to be one of those old ladies who stop driving early, and let the old man drive, while yelling at him to watch what he's doing. There will be joy and happiness for Mr. Telecom in his golden years !
Posted by: Account Deleted | September 28, 2009 at 06:59 PM
But...But...I need to text when I'm driving! How else am I going to complain to my friend about the bad driver in front of me?
Posted by: Nate | September 28, 2009 at 07:33 PM
I can't even talk on my phone if I'm walking down the sidewalk; I'll veer off course and end up falling into a trash can. As my friend says when her husband calls her while driving: "I'm hanging up; I don't want to hear the accident."
NO PHONES IN CARS.
Posted by: Guin | September 28, 2009 at 07:38 PM
Telecom, welcome to the geezer bus, if you can find it. I'll send you a Googlemap text.
Posted by: Tash | September 28, 2009 at 09:02 PM
Though I proposed the death penalty for parking violations to solve the world's population problem, we could include it for texting while driving.
Kill two birds with one law.
Contact your representatives today!!!
Posted by: Steve Martin | September 28, 2009 at 09:31 PM
People should also not attempt to operate a shopping cart while on the cell phone. I (yes, me) was at the grocery store the other day and was on the cell phone to my daughter. It occurred to me that for about 10 mins I had done nothing but turn in a right hand circle around the same aisles. I hold the phone up to my left ear. If I'm that bad with a grocery cart I'm not about to text and drive.
Posted by: nursecindy | September 28, 2009 at 09:37 PM
And the death penalty for shopping cart violations!!!
Posted by: Steve Martin | September 28, 2009 at 09:49 PM
Oh look..Steve Martin. Claire's brother??
Posted by: Siouxie | September 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I really like Steve Martin. In fact I stole one of his jokes and posted it on this very blog the other day.
Posted by: nursecindy | September 28, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Since I can't text or cell phone while riding a motorcycle, but I can splat real nice when inattentive drivers hit me on the road - I just ride on the sidewalk. Problem solved.
Posted by: azred | September 28, 2009 at 11:40 PM
... and then Steve Martin's career took a dangerous downturn..
Posted by: js | September 29, 2009 at 12:14 AM
I'm sick to death of seeing mothers and fathers with small children on the phone while just walking, waiting in line somewhere, whatEVER! Doesn't anyone pay attention to their precious babies anymore? And don't get me started on those prima donnas on the phone in the grocery check-out line...
*puts thumb out to flag down geezer bus*
Posted by: eilbeback | September 29, 2009 at 08:46 AM
Twice someone has crossed the center line coming straight at me because they were either texting or dialing a cell phone. It was only because *I* was paying attention and made a quick defensive maneuver that all of us are still alive.
We need to have both hands on the wheel, if at all possible. There are too many cars on the road these days with drivers who only have a quarter of a brain functioning inside.
Posted by: KLB | September 29, 2009 at 08:52 AM
I think anyone who texts while driving should be subject to have their messages -- and replies -- read aloud over everyone's car stereo within a 1-mile radius.
And I know just the guy to do the voice.
That should take care of things.
Posted by: Alex | September 29, 2009 at 12:35 PM
all this crap about texting while driving...yeah ok it takes away from the task at hand. but so does changing the radio station, putting a cd in the cd player and eating a hamburger from the drive thru. cell phones are just the next target. how many of the geezers on here have eaten a mcdonalds hamburger while driving?? ....hey wait....shouldn't you all be concentrating on the road?? yeah...nuff said
Posted by: blondie | September 29, 2009 at 08:31 PM
Unfortunately, my job encourages it... If I receive a message via their Crackberry and do not acknowledge it withing 10 minutes, they call the cellphone they provided me with. I have called them out on this several times... "I was driving on 95, morons!". They still don't get it.
Posted by: djtonyb | September 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM
I was talking on the cell when I walked into a place and held up two fingers to order a double espresso, only to find I was in a dry cleaning store where no one spoke English and holding up two fingers meant I was... uh... seeking to hire companionship. I will never walk and talk OR hold up two fingers again.
Posted by: Bernard Scooper | September 30, 2009 at 12:35 AM