peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON | Peterborough residents clamp down on driving & cell phones That's right. Don't come here and yap on your cell phone or vigilantes will threaten to kill you!
Utter threats arrest:
On March 7, at approximately 1:30 p.m. the accused, a 33-year-old male, reportedly saw the victim, a 30-year-old male, driving out of the parking lot of Charlotte Mews while talking on his cellphone. The victim told police that while he was stopped in his vehicle on the sidewalk before exiting the parking lot the accused approached his vehicle and began taking down his license plate and berating him for using his cellphone. During that time the victim reported that the accused threatened him. Kelly David Ashton, 33, of Highway 7 East, is charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm. Ashton was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court on March 28.
»www.mykawartha.com/news/article/···d-police
|
|
| Driver should also be accused.
I find driving while using your cell phone far worse that the guy threatening to kill him or to do bodily harm. The driver is essentially in the same boat of possibly causing bodily harm or death by using his cell phone. |
|
Reviews:
 ·Cogeco Cable
| said by OverrRyde:The driver is essentially in the same boat of possibly causing bodily harm or death by using his cell phone.
Except for the fact that one person is actually doing harm and the other person is exaggerated to potentially cause harm.
So, really, they're not at all in the same boat. |
|
|
|
| reply to peterboro
we need more of this, despite the laws in place these phone abusers are everywhere |
|
peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON | said by fast4ward:we need more of this, despite the laws in place these phone abusers are everywhere What we need are citizen action groups that congregate at busy intersections with pitch forks threatening to kill any drivers using a cell phone. |
|
| reply to urbanriot
said by urbanriot:said by OverrRyde:The driver is essentially in the same boat of possibly causing bodily harm or death by using his cell phone.
Except for the fact that one person is actually doing harm and the other person is exaggerated to potentially cause harm. So, really, they're not at all in the same boat. You're being picky!
Nobody has actually done any harm in both cases, one verbally said "ill kill you" (i guess)! and the other could potentially kill you, but hasnt, yet.
Either way, both are illegal |
|
 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to peterboro
said by peterboro:said by fast4ward:we need more of this, despite the laws in place these phone abusers are everywhere What we need are citizen action groups that congregate at busy intersections with pitch forks threatening to kill any drivers using a cell phone. I find that idea sexually stimulating, I should have you arrested for making me feel indecent.
--
Ain't nuthin but the blues! "Albert Collins".
Leave your troubles at the door! "Pepe Peregil" De Sevilla. Just Don't Wifi without WPA, "Yul Brenner"
LlamaWorks Equipment |
|
peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON | said by Anav: I find that idea sexually stimulating, Which part, the giving or receiving a pitch fork? Just curious as to the strange sexual fetishes of others. |
|
 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2
 ·Bell Sympatico
| reply to peterboro
Welcome to Owen Sound.  |
|
| said by DKS:Welcome to Owen Sound.
LOL. Good one.
Are these for Driver from Toronto?
If the driver kills somebody then that person definitely get to meet him. |
|
 GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3
·Start Communicat..
| reply to peterboro
said by peterboro:What we need are citizen action groups that congregate at busy intersections with pitch forks threatening to kill any drivers using a cell phone. No, what we need are rural Ontarians with pickup trucks who are capable of running small Japanese compacts off the road patrolling the QEW and 401 for Torontoids sitting in the left lane holding up traffic while oblivious to what's going on around them. Being thrown into the median or into the ditch a few times will cause them to wake up and realize that we're not going to take that kind of bullshit anymore. |
|
 Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:5 | reply to OverrRyde
said by OverrRyde:I find driving while using your cell phone far worse that the guy threatening to kill him or to do bodily harm.
In that case, I highly recommend that you, personally, not drive while using your cell phone.
said by fast4ward:we need more of this, despite the laws in place these phone abusers are everywhere
And what we need less of, is more silly threads on the alleged perils of cell phones in cars. We've already had at least two, probably more.
I suggest that as soon as the do-gooder vigilantes here have achieved 40 years of totally accident-free driving as I have -- in mostly busy urban areas -- then they can feel free to start a thread about how to drive safely. Otherwise, kids, keeps your eyes on the road, your cellphones in your pockets, and your business of your own minding. 
--
The worst disease of the world now is probably the ideology of technological heroism, according to which more and more people willingly cause large-scale effects that they do not see and that they cannot control. -- Wendell Berry |
|
| said by Wolfie00:said by OverrRyde:I find driving while using your cell phone far worse that the guy threatening to kill him or to do bodily harm.
In that case, I highly recommend that you, personally, not drive while using your cell phone. said by fast4ward:we need more of this, despite the laws in place these phone abusers are everywhere
And what we need less of, is more silly threads on the alleged perils of cell phones in cars. We've already had at least two, probably more. I suggest that as soon as the do-gooder vigilantes here have achieved 40 years of totally accident-free driving as I have -- in mostly busy urban areas -- then they can feel free to start a thread about how to drive safely. Otherwise, kids, keeps your eyes on the road, your cellphones in your pockets, and your business of your own minding. Oh come on Wolfie! Where's the "Pepperidge farm remembers" reference? I was waiting for that too...
I do not drive while using my cell phone, that's what bluetooth is for, and that's if i even get a call! I barely used my phone as it is to talk, even less in the car!
I doubt that the guy doing the vigilante work would have had a problem if he was on bluetooth. He probably was yapping away and not paying attention and this is what the dude had an issue with. |
|
 HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:17
·TekSavvy Cable
·TekSavvy DSL
| reply to DKS
said by DKS:Welcome to Owen Sound.
HAHAHAHA... good one
--
F**K THE NHL. Go Blue Jays 2013!!!
|
|
GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3 Reviews:
·Start Communicat..
| reply to OverrRyde
said by OverrRyde:I do not drive while using my cell phone, that's what bluetooth is for One phrase you say you don't use your phone, and then in the next phrase you say you do. Well played.  |
|
Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:5 | reply to OverrRyde
said by OverrRyde:He probably was yapping away and not paying attention and this is what the dude had an issue with.
There are laws to deal with driving carelessly or without due care and attention. Would your hero -- or the average citizen -- have been equally enraged and apoplectic if the guy pulling out of the parking lot had been looking at a map (which is a hell of a lot more dangerous)? I doubt it. The disciples of the new vigilantism are only enraged by the appropriately proscribed villains. |
|
| reply to Gone
said by Gone:said by OverrRyde:I do not drive while using my cell phone, that's what bluetooth is for One phrase you say you don't use your phone, and then in the next phrase you say you do. Well played. How so? I don't touch my cell phone when i'm in my car that's equipped with a bluetooth capabable head unit.
Let me rephrase that for you: i do not physically touch my cell phone in order to make a call when in my vehicle. I press a button on my steering wheel and speak out a voice command to dial a phone # or name in contact for me.
Better? |
|
GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
kudos:3 Reviews:
·Start Communicat..
| Nope, not better.
It doesn't matter if you are holding the phone in your hand or talking on it through a "bluetooth", you're still using your phone. Whether you are physically touching it or not is irrelevant.
That's why this whole idea that somehow not having the thing in your hand is a load of bullshit. The same thought and energy you put into the conversation happens regardless of where the sound is coming from. Banning them outright entirely would an ounce less of hypocrisy, but at that point they may as well ban holding a conversation with a passenger or drinking a coffee while driving, too. |
|
| reply to Wolfie00
said by Wolfie00:said by OverrRyde:I find driving while using your cell phone far worse that the guy threatening to kill him or to do bodily harm.
In that case, I highly recommend that you, personally, not drive while using your cell phone. said by fast4ward:we need more of this, despite the laws in place these phone abusers are everywhere
And what we need less of, is more silly threads on the alleged perils of cell phones in cars. We've already had at least two, probably more. I suggest that as soon as the do-gooder vigilantes here have achieved 40 years of totally accident-free driving as I have -- in mostly busy urban areas -- then they can feel free to start a thread about how to drive safely. Otherwise, kids, keeps your eyes on the road, your cellphones in your pockets, and your business of your own minding. ok I will qualify my rant having lived on the west side of the COTU * all my life and have 40 years of wreck free as well. I don't phone or text when driving.
* COTU(r) = center of the universe (R) 2013 snafu  |
|
Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:5 | reply to OverrRyde
Nope. Not better at all. Not unless you're telling us that when on your Bluetooth handsfree gadget, you hear that you have a major business crisis, or your kid has just been expelled from school, or you get into a huge potentially relationship-ending argument with your spouse, that you will continue to be Mr. Safety Sam 100% Safe Driver without any distraction whatsoever. Because after all, you have Bluetooth, you don't need to use one hand to hold a phone to your ear, so everything must be A-OK and there's no risk of being even the tiniest bit distracted, right? |
|
