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OTT? A fine for using your ph while walking across the road

I saw a Dutch artist's street-sign warning drivers against texting pedestrians crossing the roadway. Such may be necessary in many downtowns unless stupidity is banned. Hah. Why not merely allow the genepool to cleanse itself? I know, I know, it gets messy, and there's liability, and lawsuits, and way too many tweets. Just stop that.
 
People are insane over their damned devices. When they get that celly nestled into the palm of their hand, any common sense they may have, flies right out their wee heads. It doesn't take much imagination to think of them turning into Gollum and whispering "My Precious"
 
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4est_4est_Gump said:
People have died from walking out into traffic.



Getting a ticket is far less harmful...
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True but for $49.95 I can sell them enough bubble wrap so they don't get a booboo by bumping into a car because they're not paying attention and wander into the path of a vehicle in it's natural habitat just trying to get to it's destination. :)
 
Debbie said:
True but for $49.95 I can sell them enough bubble wrap so they don't get a booboo by bumping into a car because they're not paying attention and wander into the path of a vehicle in it's natural habitat just trying to get to it's destination. :)
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I was once busted for jaywalking in Los Angeles. Cop gave me a summons for court the next day. I was fined US$30 but I was broke so I was sentenced to a day in jail. They hauled me to a cell. Breakfast was over by then. For lunch they gave me a bologna sandwich and an apple. They threw me out before dinner, which was probably chipped beef on toast or some equivalent shit. I wasn't worth feeding that evening, so OUT!

We didn't have bubble wrap back then. Technology evolves. Yay!
 
As a pedestrian, a former cyclist and a car driver, I can see the sense of this regulation.

People have bumped into me while I was walking because they were on their mobile - despite me doing everything I could to avoid them. Cyclists have collided with my stationary car while using their mobiles. Pedestrians have stepped out in the road in front of me without looking because they were on their mobile.

Car and truck drivers on their mobiles scare me almost as much as drunk and drugged drivers. All are unpredictable.

If I hit a cyclist because he was riding erratically while using his phone? It's my fault. MY insurers have to pay even if the cyclist was in the wrong. Any damage to my car? I have to pay because the cyclist won't have insurance.

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A few months ago in the UK a young woman, having passed her driving test a few weeks earlier, was driving home from shift work in the early hours of the morning. It was raining. It was the first time she had driven any distance after dark.

She hit something on a bridge on an unlit section of motorway. She stopped but couldn't see anything behind her. She thought she had hit a deer. She didn't know what to do so continued home to her parents. Her father looked at the damage to her car and told her to phone the Police and report the accident. She was in shock so her father called the Police.

The Police had already found the scene of the accident. A man was lying on the hard shoulder of the motorway beside his bicycle and he was dead.

The bicycle had no lights, not even a single reflector. The man was wearing black clothing. Bicycles are banned from motorways. The marks on the road showed that he was in the middle lane when hit.

Post mortem tests showed that the alcohol in the cyclist's blood was three times the legal limit for driving and he had taken crack cocaine as well.

The young woman wasn't prosecuted, not even for leaving the scene of an accident. She could have been prosecuted for 'leaving' but given the circumstances and the report to the Police as soon as she got home it was considered not in the public interest to prosecute her for that.

However - if the bicycle had had lights and a reflector and had been on any other road except a motorway - even though the cyclist was drunk and on drugs, she would have been prosecuted and convicted for causing death by dangerous driving even though the cyclist's behaviour was the cause.
 
I believe anyone using a phone whilst interacting with a physically present person
(When being served at a till/counter,during a meeting or worse whilst in conversation with someone face to face etc etc). Should be treated like those torrid perpetrators
Of cinema crime( rustling,crunching,talking,texting).with viscious and instant contempt and ridicule and possibly severe violent backhanding.. Repeat offenders should be publicly flogged.
 
oggbashan said:
As a pedestrian, a former cyclist and a car driver, I can see the sense of this regulation.

People have bumped into me while I was walking because they were on their mobile - despite me doing everything I could to avoid them. Cyclists have collided with my stationary car while using their mobiles. Pedestrians have stepped out in the road in front of me without looking because they were on their mobile.

Car and truck drivers on their mobiles scare me almost as much as drunk and drugged drivers. All are unpredictable.

If I hit a cyclist because he was riding erratically while using his phone? It's my fault. MY insurers have to pay even if the cyclist was in the wrong. Any damage to my car? I have to pay because the cyclist won't have insurance.

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A few months ago in the UK a young woman, having passed her driving test a few weeks earlier, was driving home from shift work in the early hours of the morning. It was raining. It was the first time she had driven any distance after dark.

She hit something on a bridge on an unlit section of motorway. She stopped but couldn't see anything behind her. She thought she had hit a deer. She didn't know what to do so continued home to her parents. Her father looked at the damage to her car and told her to phone the Police and report the accident. She was in shock so her father called the Police.

The Police had already found the scene of the accident. A man was lying on the hard shoulder of the motorway beside his bicycle and he was dead.

The bicycle had no lights, not even a single reflector. The man was wearing black clothing. Bicycles are banned from motorways. The marks on the road showed that he was in the middle lane when hit.

Post mortem tests showed that the alcohol in the cyclist's blood was three times the legal limit for driving and he had taken crack cocaine as well.

The young woman wasn't prosecuted, not even for leaving the scene of an accident. She could have been prosecuted for 'leaving' but given the circumstances and the report to the Police as soon as she got home it was considered not in the public interest to prosecute her for that.

However - if the bicycle had had lights and a reflector and had been on any other road except a motorway - even though the cyclist was drunk and on drugs, she would have been prosecuted and convicted for causing death by dangerous driving even though the cyclist's behaviour was the cause.
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Christ that's horrendous. When I went on a speed awareness course last year they said mobile use is the new drunk driving. Far, far outweighs it in stats now.

People are stupid.
 
SeeNoHearNoSpeakNo said:
I believe anyone using a phone whilst interacting with a physically present person
(When being served at a till/counter,during a meeting or worse whilst in conversation with someone face to face etc etc). Should be treated like those torrid perpetrators
Of cinema crime( rustling,crunching,talking,texting).with viscious and instant contempt and ridicule and possibly severe violent backhanding.. Repeat offenders should be publicly flogged.
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If I'm dealing with a customer at work and they start fucking around with their phones I usually bollock them. What's more important, securing accommodation or tweeting shit?

Cinema wise, KILL THEM ALL.

I hate it when you have a night out with a bunch of friends or colleagues and half of them are texting or updating Facebook they are on a night out (on Facebook). A depressing sign of the times.
 
La damnee elle la licorne said:
Generally I agree in fact. However I will apologise and take a call/ text/mail from someone I am in a relationship with or someone taking care of my home/animals ( equivalent to a babysitter) . Because I don't live with G full time it's important to be in contact with him . It's not important to tell a friend I am out for drink with another friend.
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Exactly. If my mum calls I pick up no matter what cos she's 92 and it could be an emergency. Like the other week when she called during a training course to say she'd ran out of marmalade. :rolleyes:
 
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