I drive a horseless carriage.

I so glad you all have "GOOD HEARING" but for the "DEAF" texting is their life blood.This is just another slap in the face for them.:fury:

Because someone is deaf and needs to text...they should be able to do it while driving??? And possibly kill or cripple someone???:confused:

no more then the guy who works 8 hrs then drives an hour to fish the ditch till the sun comes up then drives another hour to get home...no he's not going to kill anyone because he fell asleep behind the wheel.

Oh paleeez! There is great rationale' for ya!:smash:

All llegitimate points Cape Sams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :buds::love:

Dont worry texters, none of the no-balls judges are going to find anyone responsible for this anyways. Just because someone is seen punching keys on a keypad doesn't mean they are texting. It could be just a nervous tick that makes their fingers move that way. And the only way it could be proven to any degree of certainty is if the cell phone record/s are supoena'd which will show texting occurred, when the perp was charged. I say this because no legal authority is going to allow supoenas to issue for a chapter 90 violation. So its bullchit, completely.

I have to finish packing. See y'all in two weeks after the derby is over. Do you miss me yet???????????

I say eventually when the government finally gets their way.They'll have logs of our text messages and driving time and location from GPS tracking and text monitoring.The tracking of the cars is already being used just quietly.You'll just get tickets in the mail for the violation.Even if not physically caught.It's a win win situation for all of us.So they know where your going and what your saying.I see text tax and mileage tax coming soon down the pipe so this law will fall right into place.Nevermind the proposed e-mail and internet usage tax.:wall:

You are out of your mind!

A deaf person still has to take his EYES off the road and at least one HAND off the wheel to send a text message,that equals someone like me being killed.If a deaf person NEEDS to send a text message pull over and send it like the rest of us RESPONSIBLE people!

Your above quote is by far one of the stupedist things I've ever read!

Have to say that although I'm eternally thankful for our law enforcement the idea of police offers enforcing this law is a little funny. How is a citizen texting or talking on their cell any different than police offers on their laptops and cells on the phones everday while their rolling in their cruisers? I have to go through brewers corner in Quincy on my way home when I fish the North Shore and a cop creaps up on me and runs my plates everytime. I'd be running plates if I saw some dude running through town @ 3am too but they ain't stopping to do it.

This law is a waste of time (as assured to me by a cop)
Cop sees you in what he thinks you are texting, pulls you over, you just tell him you were making a phone call (still legal).
How is he going to prove you were texting ?
Take you phone from you to check your call/text history ?
Can't !
You can tell him to go pound sand.
Can't take your phone from you without a warrant.
Police dept going to spend tax dollars (they don't have) paying cops overtime to get your phone bill ???

Wrong.

He can't take your phone but if you get pulled over for texting(assuming you were not doing so) its in your best interest to show the cop your phone to prove you were not texting.If you do not show the cop your phone you have two choices,pay the ticket or you get your day in court.

If you go the court route its guilty until proven innocent just like any other traffic/parking violation.Its up to YOU to provide the cellphone records proving you were not texting,not the cops.

Its a totally enforcable law if the cops choose to pull people over for violating said law.

Drove into Boston today on the SE Ex'way and I was surprised that I only witnessed maybe 2 drivers texting, a normal day should have seen over 20....at least the 1st Monday of the law seems to be working?

Our project manager sealed a 1/2 million dollar job doing the crackberry thing on the way home.

Gotta love that technology !!!!!!!!!:love:

We can afford a few hundred in tickets if he got caught. :biglaugh: