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October 23, 2008, 5:57 pm PDT
Texting and Driving
Parents, wake up and smell the coffee. If you have children with cell phones and a drivers license, turn off the text messaging on their phone. If you are paying the bill, you control the phone. I don't know how many adults text and drive, but I see teenagers doing it all the time. Teens think that they are 10 feet tall & bullet proof. They all have the "it won't happen to me" attitude. They don't realize that it only takes a brief moment of distraction for an accident to happen. I don't know that we necessarily need another law on the books. The ones we do have need to be enforced. We have laws against tailgating another vehicle, but it happens all the time & law enforcement rarely does anything about it. Lots of times, they are the ones doing the tailgating. If a police officer sees someone driving recklessly, he/she should pull that driver over & give them a ticket for reckless driving. The fine should be higher if the person was texting. If a teenager gets a ticket, the officer should indicate on the ticket if the teen was using their cell phone, either to text or make/answer a call without a headset. The parents should then take the child's cell phone and car keys away from them.
I wonder how today's kids would have survived before personal computers, cell phones, etc?
Adults, if you are texting and driving, shame on you. Grow up. Stop acting like the kids and start setting an example for them to follow. Law enforcement officers especially should not be text messaging & talking on a cell phone without a head set while they are driving. They are human too & can have an accident just like the rest of us. I have a cell phone, but I don't have text messaging. It doesn't even take pictures. I rarely use it while driving, but I do have a head set that I use when I am driving.
I seriously doubt that the cell phone makers will stop including a text messaging function on the phones. It's just another way for the cell phone service providers to make more money, some of which, I'm sure goes to the cell phone maker.
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