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09-30-2010, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: On the ocean
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I think this is really good law but my question is how is it going to enforced? If I'm holding my phone and using the GPS or checking the weather how will the police know that is what I am doing and not texting?? They can't pull you over and ask for your phone so I'm at a loss for how they are going to deal with this.
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09-30-2010, 10:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: RI
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I only text at stop lights because if I do it while I'm driving I might spill my beer and I won't have a free hand to change the radio station or program my gps  |
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09-30-2010, 10:42 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by Fishoholic
I only text at stop lights because if I do it while I'm driving I might spill my beer and I won't have a free hand to change the radio station or program my gps |
Stop lights are the best. When I'm going fishing straight from work I use them to change into my waders and look in the back seat for the plugs I want to swap into my bag for the trip. If you see an F-150 with a big hair %$$ in the window and a rod on top of it at say hi! Sorry, no s-b sticker. I'm too stealthy for that. |
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09-30-2010, 11:10 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Quote:
Originally Posted by luds
Stop lights are the best. When I'm going fishing straight from work I use them to change into my waders and look in the back seat for the plugs I want to swap into my bag for the trip. If you see an F-150 with a big hair %$$ in the window and a rod on top of it at say hi! Sorry, no s-b sticker. I'm too stealthy for that.
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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09-30-2010, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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I do still think that the working and texting crowd is responding to the need to do it to keep up.
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09-30-2010, 11:33 AM
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#6
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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I text with my kids,they always respond which is not the case with a call. They don't even have ringtones for a call.Next thing you know the typewriter will become obsolete and we won't have to get up to change the channel on the television.Maybe some folks,like my Dad,will soon join this fad they call texting.
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09-30-2010, 12:47 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Work can wait.....please. What in your line of work is that important Luds??? If it is that important.....can't ya pull over and deal with it? I personally think the "Work" angle is just an excuse and I am betting the majority of your texts are personal in nature?? Fishing?? The Wife??? Just a guess? Even if its not an excuse I have said it before....safety first above all else....most certainly above work! That family of 4 in the car you kill would think so???
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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09-30-2010, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BigFish
Work can wait.....please. What in your line of work is that important Luds??? If it is that important.....can't ya pull over and deal with it? I personally think the "Work" angle is just an excuse and I am betting the majority of your texts are personal in nature?? Fishing?? The Wife??? Just a guess? Even if its not an excuse I have said it before....safety first above all else....most certainly above work! That family of 4 in the car you kill would think so???
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Fortunately I don't have a job where I'm on call 24/7 so it's not an issue for me but it's a little different for someone in the IT world or in a sr. leadership role. Turn your phone off everyday for your commute home and see what happens. Your jobs going bye bye. What would prompt you to pull over since the suggestion was that your phone should be off? I'm not saying it's right, it's just how it is. People that drive poorly because their chatting with their friends or texting are be idiotic but I just don't see it quite the same way for people that are working. It's not good but I feel like to a certain extent they are doing what they have to do. For me I work from home as much as possible to avoid any unecessary face to face contact with humans so I'm able I rarely have to worry about taking a business call while driving. Some folks have no choice other than to find another job which seems to be a little difficult right now. Again, texting/tallking about work in the car is not a part of my life but I see why it is for many people and I won't point a finger at them.
All my texts are fishing related or sexual, mostly both!!!!!!!!!!! |
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09-30-2010, 01:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Dedham MA
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I was driving home from fishing last night, pulled up to an intersection, and waited for the guy opposite me to take the right of way. He sits there. Then I get a good look - his hand is to his head holding a phone.
Can't talk and drive at the same time, so he decided to stop driving at the stop sign and finish talking. This is why I can't carry a gun.
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09-30-2010, 01:20 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,515
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My wife and I have our text messaging blocked. I kept getting gross pictures of fat naked women from my friends. Plus my fingers are so fat everything comes out misspelled.
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09-30-2010, 11:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,743
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VOICEMAIL..... turn the phone off while you drive...the world will not end if you dont get the message until you arrive... if work was that important you should have slept there....
I'm now driving 2010 pickup because some moron playing with their cell phone drove into the side of my 04 two weeks ago...
I've been cut off and rear ended because of cell phone use... dont tell me it is not a distraction...and it's not just teen agers...
BTW... I dont text...PERIOD...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-30-2010, 12:09 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
I'm now driving 2010 pickup because some moron playing with their cell phone drove into the side of my 04 two weeks ago...
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i bent my wookie
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09-30-2010, 12:16 PM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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 Why do they create laws for laws that already exist. Is texting while driving not just another form of "Driving to Endanger"? |
"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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09-30-2010, 12:21 PM
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#14
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
VOICEMAIL..... turn the phone off while you drive...the world will not end if you dont get the message until you arrive... if work was that important you should have slept there....
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The world may not end but your job might and I'm sure some would sleep in their offices. I think this kind of points to another reason people do it. They don't want to have to do it when they get home so they can spend time with their families. It's a question whether you want to impact drive time vs. family time.
Sorry about your driving misfortune. Hopefully all it impacted was your vehicle. |
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09-30-2010, 01:38 PM
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Formerly the_shocker
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: ricca
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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.
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09-30-2010, 02:32 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,119
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I should send a text to Bigfish right now
if I can figure out how to  |
The United States Constitution does not exist to grant you rights; those rights are inherent within you. Rather it exists to frame a limited government so that those natural rights can be exercised freely.
1984 was a warning, not a guidebook!
It's time more people spoke up with the truth. Every time we let a leftist lie go uncorrected, the commies get stronger.
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09-30-2010, 03:06 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by american spirit
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.
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This is not about control over people....its about safety! I am guessing you are a texting man Shocker??  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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09-30-2010, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
BTW... I dont text...PERIOD...
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i am in this group....
my texting feature with Verizon wireless
was disabled
when i purchased the phones |
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09-30-2010, 11:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
VOICEMAIL.....
BTW... I dont text...PERIOD...
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Said the man who used to shun computers
BTW...I don't text and drive...but I don't use the pony express either... |
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