Missouri is considering a law restricting cell phone use while driving.
I’d like to submit my proposal for the legislation:
If a person is stuck in traffic behind a cell phone user who is:
- driving erratically
- unreasonably slow
- fails to signal
- slows down a mile before the actual traffic congestion
- otherwise subjects other drivers to danger
said person is automatically protected by law from any charges resulting from the grievance resolution process which may include but is not limited to the actions listed below:
- cutting off phone user
- forcing him to stop
- removing him from the cabin
- inflicting bodily damage
- retrieving his cell phone
- inserting the cell phone in any available orifice
- performing other educational activities and
- teaching an abridged course on safe driving
The law affords protection therein for a period of 15 minutes. After the specified period everyone is on their own.
We are in complete and total agreement on this one.
My oldest grandson text-messages while driving. And he only has vision in one eye. I no longer ride with him.
But did you ever try to talk sense to a twenty-three-year old headstrong youth?
It can’t be done.
Here’s the thing – doing any of the five things listed above counts as “careless and imprudent driving.” We don’t need another freakin’ law. Missouri has more pressing issues right now, but some butthurt legislator who probably still has a circa 1994 bag phone thinks THIS is a major problem.
Dammit – I’m becoming more of a libertarian every day.
Using a cellphone while driving is as dangerous as drunk driving. If I see someone holding a phone, I act as if it is a whiskey bottle and act accordingly.
Sounds like a sound piece of legislation to me, but I’d like to attach a rider providing for the public humiliation of anyone who causes an accident in rush hour traffic, thereby making the daily a commute a bigger nightmare than it already is. Publicly shaming bad drivers would encourage them to be more careful in the future…
it just bothers the heck out of to look up from my reading and see the driver in front of me yakking on a cell phone!
Doc, ditto with me and my crack pipe
What is “public shaming”? Is it when we all say “boo”? I think the law should stay with corporal punishment and vigilante justice or it will be ineffective.
How about we simplify this proposal and simultaneously expand it to help with other societal ills:
Assault and battery are ok if the object of the violence “has it coming.”
…hmmm.
i believe Burrowowl has the right idea:
people entering/exiting from any store NOT through the right-hand door earn a black eye;
same for dickweeds that refuse to walk on the right-hand of any sidewalk or hallway;
children/teens under 18 who do not refer to adults with either ’sir’ or ma’am’ may be knuckl-thumped atop their heads with varying degrees of force dependant upon the number of years since that portion of their anatomy calcified;
should the child/teen attempt to pull a gun at this ‘correction’, the adult shall be legally required to pistol-whip the jackass with it and, depending upon his/her whim and current personal collection needs, either keep the weapon or deposit it in the locked deposit barrel that we ought to ask (as long as we’re ‘bettering’ things) the PD to establish in every gas station, fast food/convience store and grocerie stores;
cell phone use in public that can be heard – at any decibel level – beyond a 2 foot radius centering on the egotist – is immediately puniishable by stoning. anyone within earshot who feels offended may join in;
any ass that does not move to assist obvious infirm and/or the aged shall, literally, have their ass kicked by the nearest individual wearing one of the following – cowboy boot, steel toed work shoes/boots or doc martins;
…
you know, i could go on all day, but is it really fair that is just be down to me to create this new (dis)utopia?
; ‘ )