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Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the move-over-cb-radio dept.

theodp writes "TIME interviews 21-year-old Taylor Leming, creator of the 600-member Facebook group I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven't Crashed Yet! While Alaska and Louisiana just became the latest states to pass laws banning text-messaging behind the wheel, Virginia resident Leming is still happily texting away while driving despite some near-accidents. 'Sometimes it just seems easier to text 'Be there in 5' instead of calling,' explains Taylor."

6 of 517 comments (clear)

  1. As has often be said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the really effective way to make people drive more careful is to replace the airbag in all cars with a big pointy spike aimed at the driver's head.

  2. Re:Darwin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    God: Where are you?

    Idiot: Be there in 5 mins.

    CRASH!! BANG!!

    Makes sense to me.

  3. Re:Make Organ Donor Mandatory for These Idiots! by gnasher719 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would like to make organ donation compulsory for these people. At least they can be of some use after they crash.

    I like the idea of compulsory organ donation, but why wait until after they crash, when the organs might get damaged?

  4. Re:Darwin by eugene+ts+wong · · Score: 5, Funny

    God: Where are you?

    Idiot: Be there in 5 mins.

    CRASH!! BANG!!


    God: That didn't seem like 5 minutes to me.

    --
    testing out my trending skills
  5. Re:Darwin by gemada · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best example yet of this occurred here in Canada. A teenage girl was driving her parents' minivan and got into an accident while texting her boyfriend.....and here is the kicker....HE WAS IN THE BACK SEAT!

  6. Re:Darwin by brownsteve · · Score: 5, Funny

    The girl's name is Taylor Leming. This cannot be a coincidence.