Don't text and drive, assholes

[Thanas]

In case you need a reminder.

[Raw Shark]

I'm almost positive that the last girl who crashed into my cab was texting and driving, because she didn't stop typing on the thing until the cops showed up. I wanted to slap that shit out of her hand and shout, "What is so fucking important, you fucking addict!? Are you tweeting, 'I just rammed a cabbie! He's being a dick about it! LOL, #FirstWorldProblems!'"

[Borgholio]

I could barely watch the first part of that video you linked, Thanas. Jesus fucking Christ, that tugged at the heartstrings. I don't know who is in more pain, the boy or his mother. I hope the bitch who did this paid dearly...

[Raw Shark]

I could barely watch the first part of that video you linked, Thanas. Jesus fucking Christ, that tugged at the heartstrings. I don't know who is in more pain, the boy or his mother. I hope the bitch who did this paid dearly...

She just got a Driving While Distracted ticket ($750 'round these parts) according to the comment section. Not sure if the video confirms that or not; had to close it before I hurled after reading that.

[Thanas]

Considering the other women who permanently disabled someone only got a suspended license and community service, I can believe that.

[Raw Shark]

Relevant Conversation From The Professional Front Lines:

Your Driver: Yeah, I get into wrecks about once a year. The last dumbass who hit me wasn't even drunk, just texting and driving, if you can believe that.
Blonde Sorority Girl: Yeah, that's completely stupid. I mean, I text and drive, but I've never hit anybody.
Asian Sorority Girl: Yeah, me neither.
YD: Y'know, you really shouldn't do that shit. It's like 750 bucks if they catch you now...
BSG: Ohmygod! That's insane!
ASG: I know, right? That is so unfair!
BSG: What if I'm driving and I, like, get a text?
ASG: The government is like the Mafia!
BSG: So unfair!
YD: [sigh]

[Alyrium Denryle]

Thank you Thanas, the relevant video has been reposted to my Viral Meme Machine. I dont text and drive for this exact reason. The last time I was in an actual accident (as opposed to a parking lot fender bender brought on by Freud-Mobiles blocking line of sight), the individual was texting on approach to a freeway on ramp with bad traffic. Did not even hit the brakes, just plowed into the back of the car I was a passenger in at 35 mph. Before that... well, I was on a bike on a university campus. I made my reflex save (critical, actually). Physically leaping off my bike parallel with the car's path, letting my bike get run over. Guess what HE was doing? Speeding through a pedestrian and cyclist-infested university campus while on a cell phone.

No calls when driving either...

[Lord Revan]

it shouldn't be so hard to figure that when you text or speak on phone your focus is on that not the road and when your focus isn't on the road your chance of getting into an accident just went up 1000000 times compared to if you were focused at driving.

[Haruko]

Haven't watched the whole documentary yet, so sorry if this is redundant, but the article linked below describes a survey (also by AT&T) indicating that texting while driving is not only quite a prevalent practice, but is on the RISE, and with ADULTS notably leading the way. And the usual excuse is multitasking/increased productivity and connecting with people.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/5607 ... s.html.csp

[Borgholio]

Well they're right about one thing. Texting while driving DOES allow connecting with people. Probably not in the way they wanted though.

[Isolder74]

Well when Mythbusters did their cell phone vs drunk tests they found that they did worse on the test when on the cell phone then they did bald faced drunk....really.

[Captain Seafort]

Well when Mythbusters did their cell phone vs drunk tests they found that they did worse on the test when on the cell phone then they did bald faced drunk....really.

Probably a lot worse - there's proper science to prove this.

[Havok]

Drunk people are trying their fucking best to pay attention to everything so they don't hit anybody and don't get caught.

You guys think you have it bad... ride a motorcycle everyday. Totally different perspective.
You think texting is the only distracting danger out there?
No offense, but half of you have probably almost hit someone (probably on a motorcycle and don't even realize it) just being distracted by the radio station or someone talking to you.

[Isolder74]

I know from personal experience playing my own game of Frogger walking down the street that talking on the phone and driving is downright dangerous. On more then one occasion the only reason I'm not seriously hurt or dead wasn't that the driver saw me but I noticed them.

Really someone standing at a bus stop shouldn't have to play dodgeball with cars. The irony of the worst time it ever happened to me was they had just removed the bus bench to replace it with a new one when the moron flew over the corner and almost killed me. If the bench was still there, the car would have spun into or on top of me or worse and his car would have been totaled. I'm still trying to figure out how he didn't hit the stop sign or the bus stop marker(Edit: Just as a point of information the space between the two signs was only about 5 feet)!

[Thanas]

Drunk people are trying their fucking best to pay attention to everything so they don't hit anybody and don't get caught.

You guys think you have it bad... ride a motorcycle everyday. Totally different perspective.
You think texting is the only distracting danger out there?
No offense, but half of you have probably almost hit someone (probably on a motorcycle and don't even realize it) just being distracted by the radio station or someone talking to you.

Yeah, I can attest to that from my own personal experience as well. Almost got squashed like a bug by a truck several times.

It got worse because until a few years back, motorcyclists were supposed to ride around with having their lights on all the time. This served as extra warning and made everyone notice. Then they decided to recommend to everybody to always have their lights on and the extra protection to bikers is now gone.

[Alyeska]

Drunk people are trying their fucking best to pay attention to everything so they don't hit anybody and don't get caught.

You guys think you have it bad... ride a motorcycle everyday. Totally different perspective.
You think texting is the only distracting danger out there?
No offense, but half of you have probably almost hit someone (probably on a motorcycle and don't even realize it) just being distracted by the radio station or someone talking to you.

Yeah, I can attest to that from my own personal experience as well. Almost got squashed like a bug by a truck several times.

It got worse because until a few years back, motorcyclists were supposed to ride around with having their lights on all the time. This served as extra warning and made everyone notice. Then they decided to recommend to everybody to always have their lights on and the extra protection to bikers is now gone.

Some motorcycles around here have a pulsing headlight that is very noticeable in the safety distance ranges. Wish that was standard for all the bikes.

[Alyrium Denryle]

Drunk people are trying their fucking best to pay attention to everything so they don't hit anybody and don't get caught.

You guys think you have it bad... ride a motorcycle everyday. Totally different perspective.
You think texting is the only distracting danger out there?
No offense, but half of you have probably almost hit someone (probably on a motorcycle and don't even realize it) just being distracted by the radio station or someone talking to you.

Oh, I realized it shortly thereafter. Hell, I was not even distracted, it was just near civil twilight, his lights were not on, and I didnt see him because he and his bike blended into the background (medium green and gray, blends right into the sidewalk and people's lawns) when I was checking for approaching vehicles while making a right turn. Not even a motorcycle--which I can usually rely on hearing to detect--but some sort of vespaesque contraption that really should not be street legal.

[Action Avenue]

This goes for people who talk on their phones and drive at the same time. A couple of days ago, my wife and I were almost hit by some idiot in a Ford F150 who was busy chatting it up on the phone instead of paying attention to the road and his driving.

[Ziggy Stardust]

I don't even like talking to people in the car with me, I've had some close calls with just that distraction.

[Raw Shark]

Oh yeah, don't get me started on distracting the driver. I've had everything from a four-man fistfight in my cab on the highway, to a girl sticking her hand down my pants while I was turning in a busy intersection and nearly causing a head-on with a Jeep Cherokee, to a 30# pug bullseyeing my nuts while we were doing 70mph on the freeway, to two (2) people on separate occasions who put their hands firmly over my eyes while I was driving, to a lunatic passenger actually trying to wrestle the wheel away from me.

[Broomstick]

Wow. I've had some distracting passengers but dude, maybe you should drive solo in the future. Or get a different group of "friends" or whatever.

[Thanas]

He is a cab driver.

[Broomstick]

Ooo... yes, that would explain all of that.

[Zaune]

Oh yeah, don't get me started on distracting the driver. I've had everything from a four-man fistfight in my cab on the highway, to a girl sticking her hand down my pants while I was turning in a busy intersection and nearly causing a head-on with a Jeep Cherokee, to a 30# pug bullseyeing my nuts while we were doing 70mph on the freeway, to two (2) people on separate occasions who put their hands firmly over my eyes while I was driving, to a lunatic passenger actually trying to wrestle the wheel away from me.

No partition between you and the passenger compartment? I thought that was mandatory for livery cabs in most places.

[Kitsune]

Tempted to shut my ringer off my cell phone when driving like I do when sleeping but will forget to turn it back on