Comments on: No LOL Matter

By: DefendUSA

DefendUSA — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:06:12 +0000

I am going to forward this to my daughter. I have caught her many times texting and driving and I do check her bill.
In MI, where she is attending school and (and marching the Block M!!) they fine you left and right. So, thankfully, it is going way down.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:20:28 +0000

Compared to what this woman was accomplishing behind the wheel, texting seems downright safe:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/woman-nabbed-auto-erotic-crime

By: RSDS

RSDS — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:04:21 +0000

Yeah, I don’t know how to use my phone camera, either.

By: Queen of the Road

Queen of the Road — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:43:41 +0000

When friends text me, I call them back b/c I have no idea how to do it, either. But then again, I also have no idea how to use the camera on my phone. I need to go find some 4 yo in the neighborhood to show me.

By: Kipper

Kipper — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:18:23 +0000

The problem is that the riders who wreck aren’t exclusively the idiots. Black Nail Brigade (http://www.blacknailbrigade.org/) was founded in memory of a responsible rider killed by a driver who was putting on nail polish in her vehicle.

There were a few high profile cases in my general region of distracted drivers killing pedestrians in the crosswalk. Personally I now always look for an upright, engaged driver’s face before entering a crosswalk near a moving vehicle. However I wouldn’t hold someone at fault who chose to use the crosswalk without second-guessing the surrounding drivers’ ability to drive properly. I kind of feel the same way about responsible motorcyclists: they are following the law in a legally permissible vehicle, I’m certainly not going to hold them responsible for getting hit.

By: RSDS

RSDS — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:24:12 +0000

I do not even know how to text on my cell phone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:55:39 +0000

Gene pool pruning at work. I don’t care if someone kills or paralyzes themselves because they were being stupid. But if they hurt someone else it should be a 10x penalty.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:49:19 +0000

I think we should put more of our tax dollars on research to find cures for these people, to find miracle drugs that reconnect their neurones and nerves and to really push the envelop of biomedical research at the service of citizens like him who love freedom (freedom to text and chit-chat while driving) and who would certainly feel their rights infringed if not allowed to do so. This is the only freedom worth preserving in the USA Patriot Act era.

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:40:46 +0000

I don’t think that makes you sound like an ass at all. You have the right to your opinion and I think it’s justified.

By: SerenityNowHospital

SerenityNowHospital — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:02:25 +0000

This is going to make me sound like an *ss, but what else is new.

I am getting sick of the motorcycles accidents. They are never easy. The are difficult to deal with and require tons of resources. And you see them on the highway driving like crazy in and out of lanes and cars at blazing speeds. They act like they are invincible. I just don’t feel sorry for them any more. Especially if they are drinking. If I see one wreck on the highway I will keep driving.

ER Doc