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Originally Posted by 4X4
I would think that a cop would use reasonable discretion when enforcing a law like this. Someone sipping a slurpee is not really hazardous. There are some things that I believe people are capable of doing while driving. Something as repetitive as taking a sip from a cup does not require actual attention (unless the slurpee is starting to get low, and it's kind of icing up, so you start driving with your knees so that you can hold the cup and stir it with the straw). Texting requires actual attention, as well as direct vision. You have to be looking at the phone to see what you're writing. If you're looking at the phone, you're not looking at the road.
I don't know what your problem is, Jolinar. This isn't some arbitrary law. It's the same (IMO) as drunk driving, or reckless driving. It's dangerous. Just now on Crowchild some ######ed bitch veered into my lane and then jerked her car back into hers. My curiosity got the best of me (as usual), so I sped up to see if she was fiddling with a phone, and sure as sh1t, there it was. Even in slippery conditions, this ho bag finds posting her stupid facebook status more important than arriving alive. And let's not mistake this post as me giving a crap about her. I care about me. Veering into my lane and taking my little comfort zone that I had between myself and the car in front of me was enough to make me slow down. You've seen those models where one car slows down and it eventually causes a traffic jam. Or worse, she could have been directly beside me and actually brushed my car and caused an accident. Holy f'n moly, I can only imagine my fury at being stranded on the side of the road in minus 15 because some stupid ass bitch crashed into me because she was texting.  |
Look, I am against these ######s being on the road as much as the next guy, but this will do nothing, absolutely nothing. You are mad at some idiot that weaved in and out of a lane, well, how frustrated do you think I am when I have my lights and sirens going trying to get to a location to provide backup and little miss fata head is eating a frackin donut and texting at the same time and notices nothing in her little world for 3 minutes as I try to pass her and then when she does notice she freaks out and almost kills 20 people on the road cause she has no idea what to do?
This law will NOT stop these frackin morons, there is not even close to enough officers on the road to enforce this. There is no demerits which is the real deterent.
It simply wont work. It hasn't in other jurisdictions and it wont here. I applauded the government when they made the law to slow to 60 kph when passing emergency vehicles, but it hasn't stop these same ######s.