|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#81
|
|||
|
|||
Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
On Aug 2, 8:25*pm, (Tom Keats) wrote:
In article , * * * * (Bill Z.) writes: One might figure that driving like you are drunk for 1 second per hour is less serious than doing the same thing for 20 minutes per hour: a difference of a factor of 1200 in the total enhanced risk per hour. Even if you change stations 6 times per hour, its still a factor of 200 (figuring on 1 second per station change). Unless one is dealing with a bunch *of dozy *******s who have to put their reading glasses on, in order to answer the phone, while asleep or otherwise distracted at the wheel. *And hurtling a ton & a half of machinery down the street, and hoping to not hit anything in the process. Reading glasses: I put 'em on to see what I'm doing, and take 'em off to see where I'm going. It's a bitch. I hope you don't run anybody over. -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca Because I work the graveyard shift, I am at risk of being hit by a sleepy driver with poor night vision. |
Ads |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks! | KingOfTheApes | General | 82 | August 30th 08 12:26 PM |
Cell Phone | [email protected] | General | 2 | April 29th 05 12:56 PM |
GPS CELL PHONE Equiped | g.daniels | Techniques | 0 | July 18th 03 03:43 PM |