pic: Extreme Harry Potter Reading

[Wayne Doenges]

While we were traveling to Atlanta (by bus) we had to slow down for traffic. I look over and see a blue VW beetle. The back window had a sticker that said 'Hang up and Drive'. The driver was on a cell phone. I tried to get a picture but we were never close enough

My Mother-in-Law got a ticket for going the spped limit in the left lane of a six lane interstate. She was slowing down traffic.

[SuperJake]

I just wanted to share an event that I witnessed during this morning's commute. I am one of the BILLIONS (not really - but feels that way) of people that take the Mass Pike (I-90) East towards Boston in the mornings. This morning is was raining, heavy at times. I came upon a little blue car with a woman operator. I purposely replaced 'driver' with 'operator' because it was clearly only Sir Isaac Newton 'driving' the car as she was too occupied doing other things. She had a news paper fastened to the steering wheel with what looked like rubber bands, a GIANT Dunkin' Donuts coffee in her right hand, a cigarette AND lip stick (or something like it) in her left hand, AND a cell phone cradled between her ear and shoulder.

Crazy.

I don't have a fancy camera phone or whatnot - but I wish there were some process by which I could convey this image to some authoritative body and have her license revoked FOREVER.

[mtaman02]

An a additional note:

Text Messaging on any device is considered illegal and will now suffer the penalties of recieving tickets and license revocation if caught.

I've seen many people use the phone / eat drink / sleep / read / text / fiddling around in the car with something while driving and sadly I myself try not to but maybe once a week (if that) you'll see me on the phone while driving. (Yeah Once is more then enough - I know) but I don't stay on it for long (maybe 10 sec to tell the person I'll call back later) but a good majority of the time I use my Hand-Free (or Bluetooth device). The whole problem is you need Law Enforcement to catch offenders and penalize them and that something we don't have enough of (Cops that care). Cops are too lazy and they rather pull someone over for following the law instead of setting up surprise checkpoints to check if the person is driving safely. (Hell I've even seen Cops driving while on the phone and was pulled over by one as well.)

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by mtaman02

I've seen many people use the phone / eat drink / sleep / read / text / fiddling around in the car with something while driving

...how do you sleep while driving...?

[mtaman02]

Simple you fall asleep and your all over the road.

[JaneYoung]

All of these are dangerous.
One that really makes me scratch my head is applying mascara while driving. That one is just nuts.

[Wayne Doenges]

I once saw a lady who had one hand out the window holding a cigarette and one hand holding a cell phone. Maybe she was a mutant who had a third hand
Another time I saw a boy, on a bicycle, talking on a cell phone while riding.
Not cell phone related. There was a lady in front of me, at a stop light. She was fixing her hair. She was in a convertible

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Yesterday in my journey between jobs I saw a guy in a humongous truck with his dog on his lap, hanging out the window. I just thought that was absurd and immediately thought about this thread.

[Wayne Doenges]

What are these people thinking when they have their pet in their laps? What happens if they have an accident and the airbag goes of? Answer, their pet becomes imbedded in their chest.
Add pet plus cell phone Seen it.
Also, if their pet is roaming around the car. Where is their attention? Answer, not fully on the road ahead.

[Kyle]

While driving around the city in the ambulance I see more stupid driving then you can ever dream of. I see people doing everything that is mentioned here, eating, talking on phone, reading etc...
Some of my favorites so far have been people switching driver and passenger while driving, I have seen this a few times and can only chock it up to the people in that vehicle think that we are the cops in the ambulance and have some reason not to be cought driving. We had a lady jump out of her car at a green light run over to a news paper machine and buy a paper while she just left her car running in the middle of the road at a green light, in the city at night it is very common for people to be driving down a street see someone they know and want to talk to, so they just stop and park blocking a lane with no notice to the drivers behind them.

Now when we are driving to a 911 call with our lights and sirens blaring people drive more dangerously then if they were eating, drinking, reading and sleeping at the same time. People never remember to just pull to the right, we get people who just stop in the middle of the lane and force me to swerve quickly to miss the 2 ton new road block, people try to out drive us so we wont pass them and possible delay them from what ever place is sooo important they have to get to. Some people just don't pay any attention at all and go about their business like it dose not matter that someone could be dying somewhere.
Here is a great cartoon that one of my co-workers sent me

http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?...&pageOffset=17


Also to touch on the subject of animals in vehicles, think about the fact that you are wearing a seat belt and that your pet isn't, unless you are an awesome and loving owner who puts the animal in some kind of veichle restraint, and that pets can and will be hurt in an accident just like an unrestrained person. Also that when an animal is hurt and still able to get up they will most likely run away if they can so you might also lose a pet that way.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by KathieK

I hate being on the road, it is far worse today than ever (or maybe because I am getting old).

It is getting worst and worst, but that may be because I'm from Houston (not the nicest drivers in America). I have almost been hit by idiots who insist to take turns without looking left and right or even stopping.Thank god for the METRO and the HOV lanes, because getting to work and home passing all of the accidents from above is very relaxing and I get some sleep to and from work too!

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Not true, I got pulled over and a ticket last year in a line of vehicles, 6 in fact and I was #4. Here's what happened,

*snip*

Sounds like a speed trap to me. Tickets en masse, too. Let's ticket 6 cars at a time. What a racket.

[Wayne Doenges]

My wife knows a police officer and he told her a funny story.
In Fort Wayne, IN they will set up near the mall and get people who run the red light. This is a very big problem at this light.
The LEO (law enforcement officer) pulled over the last car in the line. The driver asked the LEO why he didn't stop the guy in front of him. He said "If you would have stopped, at the light, I would have".
I heard they are very sneeky in Michigan. They will sit on the side of the interstate with their lights on. The other drivers think they have someone pulled over and speed by only to find out the the LEO has no one in front of him and races after the speeder. True?

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

My wife knows a police officer and he told her a funny story.
In Fort Wayne, IN they will set up near the mall and get people who run the red light. This is a very big problem at this light.
The LEO (law enforcement officer) pulled over the last car in the line. The driver asked the LEO why he didn't stop the guy in front of him. He said "If you would have stopped, at the light, I would have".
I heard they are very sneeky in Michigan. They will sit on the side of the interstate with their lights on. The other drivers think they have someone pulled over and speed by only to find out the the LEO has no one in front of him and races after the speeder. True?

I can't say that I have ever seen what you said about Michigan happen. Maybe it's a certain part? But around US-23/I-75 in the Southeast part, I've never seen it, nor have I seen it on my trips to northern MI.

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by KTorak

I can't say that I have ever seen what you said about Michigan happen. Maybe it's a certain part? But around US-23/I-75 in the Southeast part, I've never seen it, nor have I seen it on my trips to northern MI.

Yeah the times I have been up in Michigan, we'd drive like 90mph the entire way and I swear this year, we didn't see one cop on I-75.... it was interesting lol.


Side note: I have a bad driver story... for those from Jersey, yall know how bad rush hour is (more like rush 5 hours) but i was driving with my cousin going to his house... on a Friday night, abour 5:30, the height of rush hour, he's merging onto Route 22, while talking on the cell phone, and the car is manual... so you can imagine... and he had the phone in his right hand and was shifting with him left. So yes, he was driving with his knee. Needless to say, we survived haha. He acted like he does it all the time.
But he's not the worst driver... just one of the worst times being in a car haha.