Texting and driving? I snitch.

I here ya but , this isn't about dropping a dime on your neighbor cause you seen them stuff a bottle of whisky down their pants at the corner market or give up your homie for whatever so he gets sent up instead of you.
Or just being a little tattle tale ( rat ) in general.
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This is about public safety. A public that may unfortunately be , heaven forbid one or more of your loved ones.

Agian I agree completely with minding my own.

 

While I like your line of thinking I have to disagree. The penalties you describe are way too soft. First offense should be death by firing squad of public hanging. Offenders choice.

 

Ya but look at how many people you pass driving cars and trucks that are texting...Its out of control. Its not going to change and a driver who wants to be a "hero" and call everyone he sees who is texting and driving is just kidding himself if he thinks its doing any good.

 

Maybe instead of putting those "red light runner" cameras in small towns, or even the "speeding" cameras, and mail the guy/gal a ticket with a picture, they could do this for and TO the texters and phoners out there in cars AND trucks. Better expenditure of public tax money, if you ask me. (But ya didn't, LoL~!)

 

I don't want it so seem like I'm picking on you here, Jazzy, but I've a question to this:

Do you know how many folks are being churned out of the mill that can't drive TO drive? People with a manual restriction, because they can't learn to shift? They can't focus long enough to drop a gear or 3 on a hard up-grade

It's embarrassing. I say that as a 33 yr old that has NEVER driven a manual car - but if you put me in an auto truck I'm pissed the whole time I'm there. I want 4 pedals, one to adjust the steering wheel.

I think your gist is: the need to think and pay attention is losing its footing. I somewhat agree, but it's an individual decision to be dumber than a head-of-cabbage - I still can't fault technology or progression.

People are dumb, count on that as a generality.
(Edit, as an example: put me in a manual 4-wheeler.... I'd try to drive it like a truck... I know it's wrong; I know I could learn it, eventually... but for the first few hours I'd mash that #### like it had 22 wheels and weighted 100k - I pull water tanks... It's different. Moderately transferable, but different all the same.)

 

I agree completely that it's an epidemic and out of control.

 

You'd catch a bullet before needing stitches, brother. You don't get a beat-down in Chi-town anymore.... You get shot.
You're from that place nobody wants to be from, but they all say they're glad they got out of.

Edit: Have you ever read 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair?.... It's about early Chicago meatpacking industries, labor unions, striking, the viciousness of the work, immigration..... it's a hard take, even for 'fiction', man.

 

LOL, yup yup.

Growing up my father was a Policeman, He always said people get killed sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, I was taught by him to mind my own business and worry about one person, ME.

 

Ok so here we have a great reason for driver-facing cameras. I know you all hate them but this is a way to catch drivers texting. At my company if you set off the camera (example by hard braking) and you have a phone in your hand, you are fired. Its a serious offense. So wouldn't you honestly prefer driver-facing cameras in every truck... just not your own truck.