Anything heavy and armored will do.
This afternoon, I was sitting at a traffic light. The intersection is a four way on a major four-lane road. The crossroad has a green light one way and then a green light the other way. I was sitting on the side that gets the second green. So traffic is coming the other way and I see a SUV come across-- the driver did not look up the entire time that the SUV moved through the intersection.
I have no idea how the driver did that, but it seemed pretty clear that the driver's attention was not where it should have been. If I had been standing in the street with a rifle, I could have hit the driver right in the forehead without that driver ever being aware of what was about to happen.
Jesus on Roller Skates, people, is that text or email worth dying over? Is it worth going to prison, because I'm pretty sure that if you get into a crash and kill someone because you were wrapped up in a text or email or whatnot, a zealous prosecutor can make a pretty good case for involuntary manslaughter.
Pull your eyes out of the inside of the car and keep them on the road until you've pulled off it and parked.
(Morons)
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Just 3 weeks ago while stopped in traffic trying to take an exit a lady on her phone shifted the ass end of my scooter forward a few inches, wrenched my back and neck, and mashed the crap out of my leg. Dealing with insurance companies is a pain.
There was an incident a few years ago in which a young driver, focused on downloading some cool ring tones into her cell phone, ran her car across a road shoulder and up an embankment, killing a cyclist in the process. Nah, she didn't go to prison because shucks, it was only an accident, y'see.
The world worked fine when we didn't have cell phones. Maybe it worked better than fine because the office didn't follow us around in our pants all day. Well, okay, pants pockets, but you get the idea. Outlaw the damn things!
Very crankily yours,
The New York Crank
While Driving4$$, I see it all the time. 65MPH on the DC Beltway can be a pretty scary place.
Down in the GWTP, they can be pretty aggressive on enforcing the cell-phone use (or not) rules -thankfully.
Bear
Ever see a "Bigfoot" vehicle? Made for car crushing. They even have an arrowstar(errorstar?) van with tracks. Just the thing for a little mid-town driving correction.
w3ski
w3ski, I want something that when the morons pile into it, all I need to do to fix the damage is some sandpaper and spray-cans of primer and paint.
NY Crank, some girl in Kansas City is off to prison for killing someone while texting, but not for the act itself. She went all Lindsey Lohan on her probation and the judge was not amused.
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