The Last Text - A documentary on the dangers of texting while driving... (Page 7/20)
avengador1 DEC 30, 09:59 AM
Can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. You are only fuming because you know you are wrong and none of your excuses are plausable. The only jerk here is YOU. Don't be surprised if one of you fellow motorists calls the cops on you while you are texting and driving. I hope it happens sooner than later, maybe then you will change your attitude and quit playing Russian roulette with your life and others.

http://texting-while-driving.org/

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phonedawgz DEC 30, 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by avengador1:


I'm not judging you....



What do you think you are doing this whole time?


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You are afraid to admit that you are wrong because you know you are wrong



Wouldn't that pretty much be the ONLY reason that someone should admit being are wrong? If you have read my other posts you will find I do state when I think I have been wrong. I do make mistakes like everyone else.

Clearly you don't understand the difference between immoral and illegal. You have proven that your small way of thinking can't comprehend there is a difference. Here's some home work for next Sunday. Now that you have the definitions, see if you can come up with the DIFFERENCES in those two words


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There is no Grey area here



In your limited thinking there is no gray. That is my point. Thank God we all don't think like you.


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What you are doing is dangerous



Yes driving IS dangerous. People die from it every day. Believe it or not even ones who don't text. I bet that is amazing to you. But I am sure you can find some *fact* as to what the one thing they did that caused their accident.


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You are a menace to other drivers



Thanks AGAIN for not judging me. I see in your way of thinking you can say "I'm not judging you" and that gives you the privilege to then do so.

As I have stated before, you need to worry about judging yourself and leave judging me to myself.

Adding the word "FACT" to your opinions don't change them to facts. If two reasonable people (other than you and me) can have different opinions about the matter than it is not a "FACT".

Adding the word "FACT" to the end of your sentences is just juvenal.


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Small Thinker

Fortunately, the law will take away your driving privileges if they catch and stop you.



Again wrong. It is called a fine. Same thing as speeding. No loss of license for texting in Wisconsin. Two months ago and it wasn't even illegal.
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So clearly you get off on judging me. What about YOU?

So I DARE you to answer these two questions

Do you speed?

Are you therefore immoral

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rogergarrison DEC 30, 10:46 AM
I have the Highway Patrol number on my cells speed dial. I call them when I see people on freeways speeding 20+ over the limit and when I see them texting. Here in Ohio ANY texting driving is illegal $150 first offense, then doubles after that until they revolk your licence. The only glitch in the system right now is they cannot order you to show them the phone or supenoe your phone record to prove it. Most so far apparently have paid the fine. There working on it though so you have to show the phone to an officer if he has just cause (seeing you).

Also just for info, a suburb here, Gahanna, Ohio goes even further and makes ANY DISTRACTION to driving illegal with same fine. That covers eating or drinking, changing CD, reading, putting on makeup, etc. If they see you do any of the above they do issue a ticket. At the very least you have to go to Mayors Court and guess who the mayor usually sides with ?

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avengador1 DEC 30, 10:55 AM
I see you (Phonedawgz) just don't get it, are way too dumb to get it, or just don't plain care. Oh well, Darwin will take care of you and then it will be too late for your dumb ass to change ways. No matter how you try to spin this or deflect the argument, you still are wrong. The more you try to argue your point, the more you show that YOU are a dumb ass and that is a fact.
There are thousands of articles and studies that prove you are wrong. Here are a couple of them.
In Study, Texting Lifts Crash Risk by Large Margin
http://www.nytimes.com/2009.../28texting.html?_r=1
The Dangers of Texting While Driving
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/cons...ivingandtexting.html
I bet you can't find one single study or article that can prove your viewpoint about texting and driving.

To answer your questions, no and no. I have no need to speed, as the speed limits here are sufficiently high that I have no need to do so. I also am a moral person and obey the law anyway.

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phonedawgz DEC 30, 10:59 AM

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Originally posted by rogergarrison:

I have the Highway Patrol number on my cells speed dial. I call them when I see people on freeways speeding 20+ over the limit and when I see them texting. Here in Ohio ANY texting driving is illegal $150 first offense, then doubles after that until they revolk your licence. The only glitch in the system right now is they cannot order you to show them the phone or supenoe your phone record to prove it. Most so far apparently have paid the fine. There working on it though so you have to show the phone to an officer if he has just cause (seeing you).



You push buttons on YOUR phone to dial it when you see others pushing buttons on their phone? Do you pull over to do this?

btw, I also think people who have pulled over on the side of the highway to have a phone call are more dangerous than the ones on the road. It's dangerous to be stopped so close to traffic. It's dangerous to speed up and merge back into traffic.

As stated before I have a bluetooth headset that I use when I am driving. Much nicer than holding the phone up to your ear. I would never pull over and risk getting hit on the side of the road to take a call. Clearly it is MUCH more dangerous than talking while driving.
avengador1 DEC 30, 11:02 AM
And yet you text and drive. You are a hypocrite.
phonedawgz DEC 30, 11:03 AM

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Originally posted by avengador1:

To answer your questions, no and no. I have no need to speed, as the speed limits here are sufficiently high that I have no need to do so. I also am a moral person and obey the law anyway.




So you drive the actual speed limit, not 5 or 7 over? You do that all the time?
avengador1 DEC 30, 11:13 AM
Yup, set my cruise control to the speed limit and stay in the right lane. This also saves me some gas, I can concentrate better on my driving, and I haven't received a ticket in decades.

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TXGOOD DEC 30, 11:15 AM
If Phonedawgz compares speeding and looking down to text as being an equal danger then you guys are never going to convince him otherwise.
It`s like anything you do that requires a sighted purpose.
I think even driving a little too fast, you are going to be able to adapt a lot better to unforseen circustances than only looking at the road a few seconds at a time while texting.
And I would bet that as long as it takes some people to get their point across while talking, they look down at that phone more than a few seconds at a time when texting.
That brings me to another point.
As this world has gotten more PC the grey area has gotten bigger and bigger.
Years ago there was a lot more black & white on any given subject and things seemed to work better.

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phonedawgz DEC 30, 11:21 AM

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Originally posted by avengador1:

And yet you text and drive. You are a hypocrite.



Hypocrite - a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.

Tell me in what matter I have acted that is in contradiction to my stated beliefs.

Please please please keep it to just that. Don't try to prove to me anything about how you thing it's dangerous or illegal or immoral or whatever.

Just how I am a Hypocrite.