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"Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other"

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that federal regulators plan a pilot project to test 'high visibility' crackdown efforts to curb cellphone use by drivers in two cities, Hartford and Syracuse, spending $200,000 in each city, while each state would contribute $100,000 more. The Transportation Department says it wants to send the message: 'Phone in One Hand. Ticket in the Other,' and plans on ramping up enforcement on state bans of hands-free phones by motorists, advertising the campaigns and undertaking studies to see if the efforts curb behavior and attitudes. Safety advocates say that curbing the behavior requires enforcement and education, which they say has been clearly evident in past efforts with seat belts with the 'Click It or Ticket Program' (PDF) that helped increase seat belt use to 83% nationally. 'It's time for drivers to act responsibly, put their hands on the wheel and focus on the road,' says Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who last year called distracted driving an 'epidemic.'"

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  1. Jews for Nerds! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Jews for Nerds! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jews, also known as kikes, hebes, hymies, yids, gold niggers, oven magnets, hook noses, sheenies, swindlers, criminals, "firewood", and Arabs in denial are a subhuman species of reptilian extra-terrestrials and adherents to one of the world's oldest major religions, called "Judaism", otherwise known as "The Worship of Money" or "Eating Arab Babies".

    Judaism was the world's first master race theory. The Jew religion teaches that Jews are the Chosen People of God and that there is a sacred mystical quality to Jew DNA. In olden times, Jew prophets would, under the command of YHWH, frequently lead the Jews on genocidal rampages against neighboring populations, and even today Jew leaders often cite Jewish religious ideals to justify their ongoing genocide of sandniggers. Judaism ironically found its mirror-image inversion in the anti-Jew Aryan racialism of the Nazis.

    Despite only being 0.22% of the world's population, Jews control 99% of the world's money. Not only do the Jews control the world, but also the media, the banks, the space program, and LiveJournal's porn communities and Gay communities. All Jews possess the following features: an extremely large nose, fake boobs, curly hair that reeks of faggotry, one of those gay hats, a love of coke, a law practice, a roll of money, a small cock, or shitty taste in dental hygiene.

    Jews invented both Communism and Capitalism. Karl Marx, of course, was a Jew, which was why he understood money so well, and in fact he was converted to Communism by another Jew, Moses Hess, the actual founder of Zionism, who ghost-wrote Marx's The German Ideology. Capitalism was created when Christian Europeans threw away their morals and decided to embrace Jewish practices like usury (see: John Calvin). Jews were the first group to create a sophisticated banking system, which they used to fund the Crusades in order to pit Christians and Muslims (both adhering to religions derived from and controlled by Jews) against each other to kill as many people as possible in a macabre human sacrifice to YHWH.

    The Jew banking system was based on fraud and lies, so when it inevitably collapsed, the Jews just pwned as many people as possible by unleashing the Black Plague on them. Later, Jews economically controlled medieval Venice (the first modern maritime trade empire), and then crypto-Jewish merchants economically controlled the Spanish Empire, including the slave trade. Openly Jewish bankers orchestrated the Dutch Empire and founded Jew Amsterdam (later Jew York). Later the Dutch Jews moved to London because they thought it would be a better base for a global empire, and actually brought a Dutch nobleman, William III, with them, who they installed in a coup d'état (more like Jew d'état, amirite?) as new King of the British Empire. For hundreds of years, Jewish bankers controlled global trade through their bases in Jew York City and London. European colonialism was, through its history, essentially a plot whereby Jews could gain control of gold and diamond mines in poor countries and increase their stranglehold over the global economy.

    Jews also enjoy slicing up baby penises for fun, some even enjoy sucking them. See below.

    Jews also created Jew search engine Google, so now they can find all Jew information on Internets.

    Some suggest that we should use Jews instead of dogs to sniff out large amounts of concealed cash or anything else worth smuggling at airports due to their sensitive Jew noses. Obviously, this is a horrible idea, because the pay is bad, and the dirty Kikes would probably form a union and demand moar money, thus increasing the burden on taxpayers everywhere.

  3. Ummmm. by man_of_mr_e · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't stand people who think that just because something works for one thing, it will work for another, despite there being greatly different circumstances, motivations, and complications.

    A seat belt is a one-time, passive thing that's on for the length of your trip. Takes half a second, and generally, most people aren't that concerned about it (though some refuse to use a seat belt on principle).

    A Cell phone is a multi-use information device. People call you, you call people, you need directions while driving, call people and tell them you're late, whatever.. People have a virtually unlimted reasons to use them, and those reasons don't go away when they get behind the wheel. Add to that the relative difficulty in finding a safe place to stop to take or make a phone call when driving and it makes the incentive even less.

    Tell you what, Mr Regulator. Why don't you install "cell phone stops" every 1 mile on the roads, where we can safely pull over and make or receive calls before you tell us that we can't use them.

    1. Re:Ummmm. by kramerd · · Score: 1, Troll

      Cell phone stops exist every minute or so, we call them highway exists. Like there is a single exit in the United States that doesn't have a gas station, with parking spots?! In city traffic, we call them meters, parking spaces, or places of business, roughly every 10 seconds. If anything is so important that you really must impede traffic and pull over to respond, its called the fucking shoulder of the road. There is absolutely no reason to talk on your phone while in traffic (even if its just you and one car in the distance in New Mexico on the highway).

      If I see you using a cell phone while driving, even at a red light, I will get out of my car, grab my baseball bat, shatter your window, and tell you to hang the phone up, because you should know better. I have had police officers witness me shattering windows and not arrest me, because I am in the right on this one. I am not the one driving recklessly, and your shattered window is a lot cheaper than the ticket you deserve.

  4. Re:Don't let go of the wheel.... by Falconhell · · Score: -1, Troll

    Poor old Tim, just because he cant walk and talk and chew gun at the same time, he wants to ban everyone even those capable of doing so.

    Actually Timmy, despite your rant,I can talk on the phone and drive at the same time without having a problem.

    It may have escaped your notice but some of us can even talk to our passengers without crashing!

    Dont assume the rest of the world is as inept as yourself.

  5. Re:The awesome part is by kramerd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somehow I'm allowed to eat, talk to people in my car, smoke cigarettes, change clothes, change the song on my iPod, etc.

    None of these are true. You can be pulled over for distracted driving for any of these items (smoking cigarettes might be tough; you might have to be lighting matches to make that one work).

    Shitty drivers will stay shitty, and they will stay on the roads. OTOH, when I pull up to a red light I have to worry about getting a ticket for quickly using my phone while I am stopped OR while I am driving down a highway with little traffic.

    You shouldn't make a call at a red light or while driving on the highway, even if there is no traffic. If you use your phone at a red light, you are a shitty driver, because you are the jackass that sits there for 10 seconds after the light turns green in a left turn lane when the signal only lasts for 12 seconds. Worse, you don't even realize that you are a shitty driver. Buy a fucking bluetooth headset so that you have both hands to control your vehicle. There really is not a time where you have a phone call that you have to take while you are driving. Stop at the next exit and call them back. If it is an emergency, pull over to the shoulder of the road, turn on your warning lights, and call them back when you are not traveling in a multi-thousand pound machine at high rates of speed.