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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hang up your goddamn cellphone and drive. [View all]
I was shocked to read in today's paper that an old friend - a guy I've known for close to 40 years - has just been arrested for criminal vehicular operation because he struck and killed a jogger - while evidently talking on his phone while driving. They haven't determined yet whether there was also alcohol involved (it was early in the evening), but either way, even if he was sober and just distracted, he could end up in prison. He's about the straightest arrow you'd ever want to meet, not some bubbleheaded teenager who can't stand to stop texting/yakking on the phone. But there it is. A man is dead - from all reports another straight arrow, pillar of the community type - and my friend will probably lose his job and go to prison, and will have to live with this for the rest of his life.
PUT DOWN THE DAMN PHONE. WHATEVER IT IS CAN WAIT.
I wish someone would invent a car that's kind of a Faraday cage where a phone won't work whenever the car is in motion.
PUT DOWN THE DAMN PHONE.