Happens all the time!! We should be allowed to both carry and shoot on site!!! Stupidity should carry a heavy penalty!

Ok, I can see about the texting, but what about "sexting" THAT should be allowed to continue at any venue!

settle down bigfish. you should have put this in the grumpy old farts forum. you should run for political office. another law and another step for government to have more control over people. i would imagine people will just be more discrete texting in cars now making it difficult for cops to spot you.

I should send a text to Bigfish right now










if I can figure out how to :hidin:

I hope for his sake the bigfish bait co. phone number is land line because i now have it!!!!!!!!!! :rotf2:

I did all my texting while driving yesterday, WITHOUT a seatbelt on.

So I guess I'm all set.

In my defense, I was making fishing plans !!!:jump1:
Some things just can't wait. :smash:

i try not to text and drive but to be honest on my commute home I usually get a boat load of emails and some cannot wait. I have a 40 min commute home and some replys cannot wait that long. When the boss comes a callin i need to be answerin. Law or not. Job comes first. Thats why they strapped me with the crackberry.

Eyes should be on the road

no excuses

it's as criminal as drunk driving when you get in an accident

phone records can be checked and liability will be confirmed, so don't text and drive.

not even at a stoplight

This is not about control over people....its about safety! I am guessing you are a texting man Shocker??:uhuh:

Oh and nice try with the texting kids......maybe you did not read the part where I do not text.....they simply go where unread texts go to die!:jump1: Or I can shut the phone off....cause I hate the damn thing anyway!

What about driving and fondling my new BigFish plugs? I swear that rainbow one is winnking at me.
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Separating the text message from the driving - I'll never understand the hate of the text message.

Quick, silent, effective, and unobtrusive.

Also great if you need to talk to someone who is prone to talking on the phone about nothing for an extended period of time. You can avoid that painful and time consuming phone call.

I guess you can hate the text message in and of itself (although I'll never understand why) - just don't ever be that jackhole jabbering away in line while waiting for a coffee or at the food store on your cell phone.

My wife called me on her way home and told me someone she works with got pulled over in the Longwood area of boston this morning for texting. He got a warning. Supposedly he said he wasn't even texting but was punching in the password to unlock his phone that had an incoming call??? Who the hell locks down their phone with a password?

Whatever did you do before you had texting?

Thats O.K. Luds, you aren't going to bother Larry by calling, because he doesn't answer it.

About freaking time.

Can't wait till a full ban on handhelds while driving is made law.I've literally had three near-death experiences because of sh!theads gabbing away on the phone.No message or conversation is worth another person's life.Two hands on the wheel will always be safer than one!

Humans got along just fine before cellphones.

That's assuming he can figure out how to turn off the ring tone that goes off every time he gets a message. I guess he probably already had Fischick turn that off for him.

My wife teaches at the high school and has a senior home room: she asked them today what they thought about the new law no texting/cell phone use while driving......their answer: what law?

Yeah...I love when people are texting sitting in front of you at a movie!!! Very unobtrusive! Or when they cruise through the red light in front of you and but for the grace of God and the fact that you happened to be paying attention while driving....they did not T-BONE you and kill you......nothing inobtrusive about that?? Or when they are at a dinner table in a restaurant......ignorant!!! It is the most ridiculous thing ever invented! Did I mention that same little box has a working telephone in it!!!! If you use it properly you can hear and talk to people on the other end???

If it wasn't for doing a lot of highway driving, I wouldn't have known either. Refuse to watch the nightly news and haven't set up to get delivery of the local paper yet.

i am in this group....

my texting feature with Verizon wireless
was disabled
when i purchased the phones

Big guy.. I knew there was a reason I like you!!!! If not for work I would not have a phone at all....

I am on call 24/7... I am responsible for the up keep of 3 manufacturing facillities... all calls from the alarm company ( flood alarm and waste treatment, loss of electricity etc.) as well as any manufacturing/machine break downs get fielded to me.. I dont care if the plant is on fire... it can wait until I'm not behind the wheel..

Just tonight, in Reading square , I sat through a light cycle because the young lady in front of me was pre occupied with her phone... I stood pat.. she ran the light... once again dont tell me this whole thing is not dangerous...

As far as my truck, Personaly I am fine, pissed.. yes but fine,I even continued on to go fishing, the passengers side was ripped open like somneone used a can opener, luckily, for me, I had the insurance and the means to replace the truck(I love the new one)...I'm quite sure that one of the other two cars he hit when he dropped his phone in his lap were not as lucky, one was a young single mother...Judging from her tears and words, I'm sure replacing her vehicle is going to be a big burden...

I know I'm old fashioned and refuse/fight change, technology keeps the world moving... everything has it's place, and IMHO, texting , and and in some cases, even talking on the phone is best left to places where the text/conversation will not/can not effect others...

Larry - You are a great guy, no problems with you ... but when you have a job that requires you to be responsive from other parts of the world - emailing from your BB is a necessity.

I agree that texting or emailing while driving, even talking on the phone while driving isn't a good idea ... texting while driving is not good at all ... but I have had to pull over to send an email for work while driving during working conditions, absolutely.

But sending emails from the BB - which looks very similar to texting -while at lunch or dinner or wherever I may be is an absolutely necessity ... a necessity to keep my job ... and yes, I do want to keep my job, because I like it and finally landed a job that I like and it will help me get out of the hole I have been in for the past few years.

The BB is mandatory for my job ... and a requirement to keep in touch and get ahead ... whether I am grocery shopping or whatever ... there are times I don't have a choice. If you can't accept that, it's your problem, but I am glad you don't have more serious issues to worry about than me communicating with my boss.

I do agree with you that cell phones and texting while driving is a bad thing, I support the law and try to avoid the trap.

Now as for texting, there are some people that only text these days for communication, I don't like it but rather than fighting, it's easier.

I prefer face-to-face communication over every other form of communicating, feel it leads to stronger relationships for business and life ... but sometimes a quiet, short text works better than a phone call.

You da man, but don't get in my face about me keeping touch with work ... you won't see it while I'm driving, but you may see it in the parking lot after fishing or after dinner. That's life.

Cheers

MarshCappa - who the hell locks down their phone with a password?

It's a corporate security issue ... corporations that provide BBs/iPhones to employees who have to use them for work, so in case they should lose it or it gets stolen, some theif or fool cannot access corporate emails.

But was he breaking the law? Would piss me off for sure and cause me to lay on the horn and toss a finger. I don't carry a gun because they don't make enough bullets.

Said the man who used to shun computers
BTW...I don't text and drive...but I don't use the pony express either...

Frightening!!!!! :rotf2:

I'm calling BS on this. I hang w/a decent amount of these folks. I'd say >50% of the texts/calls are personal. I'd also say that ALOT of the stuff they do could be managed during working hours. I know of more than one exec, that has a good balance between home/family and works LESS off hours than others. It is a matter of wise time use and discipline AT WORK. Work smarter... not harder.

And IF work demands 80+ hours a week? That is there decision. In no way is that at excuse nor should it jeopardize my personal safety. They want the big office? Well it's gonna suck at home. That's why you are compensated accordingly.

Yeah the funny thing is people were workaholics prior to BB's now they can just be workaholics in the car!

I see Andy's point, some poeple have jobs that require then to be on the BB all the time. True, some bring that upon themselves, but it is often forced upon them by management - because they brought it upon themselves or the CEO never sleeps, or the client requires the attention....

One thing technology has done is to really eliminate the work/life balance. If I was a CEO (that's pretty funny to think about) I would really downplay the whole BB thing if I could, but unfortunatly, that is the pace of business these days and sometimes there is very little we can do about it.

I love to text it is great. Get into this century, you are just mad nobody texts you. What better way to communicate in a tree stand or fishing? And these days ALL girls text, texting is a great way to Mack chicks, they also send you pictures with there shirts off and tell you what dirty things they want to do to you. I love it and frankly this law is affecting my social life. I am not going to abide by this law, my new S-B name is scofflaw, or maybe civil disobedient

and maybe the guy you hit won't abide by the "Assault and Battery" laws.

I detect a bit of sarcasm, but anybody that text messages me doesn't get a reply. So, most have stopped. Now if I can get my daughter to stop, I'd be very happy. :smash: She gets pissed because I don't reply.

You sound like someone who texts one-handed.

And what kind of self repspecting adult "macks chicks". Most guys I know just go out and talk to them. Then, they take them home and get to do dirty things for real instead of reading the equivalent of Penthouse Forum on their phone.:rotf2:

:laughs:

And what kind of self repspecting adult "macks chicks".

Fishbones, the kind of self respecting guy that dates girls in there early 20's.

I've got friends in their late 30's and early 40's who date girls in their early 20's. They do pretty well without trying to sound like wanna be hip hopsters.

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This thread is all over the place.

Poncho, come clean, you are really "The Situation" aren't you!

PS: you guys aren't really cool unless you know what I'm talking about

I remember when driving was an activity all by itself and required all your faculties to do it safely. Now I see people all the time who are behind the wheel of a car going 60 MPH who are talking on a cell phone with their left hand , looking in the rear view mirror with both eyes to make sure the lipstick they are putting on with their right hand is going on staright. That's what they are doing. they are talking on a phone and looking in a mirror and applying makeup , not driving. Actually driving the car is a 4th tier activity like sipping a coffee used to be when driving. Now you tell me how someone who is using both hands and both eyes and whole brain for something other than driving can lay any claim that they are driving safely and have their car under control!!

When you are driving , that's what you should be doing.