Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on September 30, 2011, 01:51:28 pm
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Sorry, but I have to vent. I'm getting so tired of sitting at a traffic light, it turns green and the jerk in front of you is Texting. When he finally realizes it's time to go, they run the yellow and you get to sit through it again. Or the ones driving slow on the Interstate in the passing lane Texting.
It makes me want to install big, rubber tires on the front of my Jeep so I can push them out of the way. Anybody else having this problem?
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worse than that is text service from elk camp.! OK it is not so bad when we need a spare or ice or fuel brought up by the next guy coming to camp, but texting from elk camp is worse than texting at a stop light.
mullet, I wonder how we got along before we had such things. To me they are a huge drain on time. Not near as productive as typing on this website!
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170,000 miles a year dealing with that stupidity and much, much worse!!! The best advice I ever got concerning controlling road rage, "when someone cuts you off, drives slow in the left lane or any other act of idiocy on the highway, imagine that person is your beloved family member or friend, be patient, just shake your head and go on. Regardless of who they are, they fit that criteria for someone. It's really not worth getting in trouble over." Since receiving that advice and following it, driving has become a whole lot less stressfull. Hope this helps,
Josh
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Yea, man Eddie.. I hate when i'm texting and miss a green light too, hahaha >:D. Naw, haven't done that in months i promise ;D. I don't know if it's all txting or not, i do a LOT of interstate travel and get iritated quite often. A high school girl killed herself here couple of years ago txting and driving, just not good business. I leave it alone unless i'm pulled over somewhere these days.
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I see IDIOTS everyday on the road texting while driving. I suppose thats God's way of thinning weaker minded animals from the herd. If you have a fully functioning brain it will tell you not to text and drive.
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I have been taking their picture with my phone when they are texting (when I am the pasenger). It makes them wonder why?????????
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I see IDIOTS everyday on the road texting while driving. I suppose thats God's way of thinning weaker minded animals from the herd. If you have a fully functioning brain it will tell you not to text and drive.
Have you seen the stats of pedestrians hit by texting drivers? The wrong herd is getting thinned.
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Yup, drives me absolutely insane...I am the guy who struggles with "road rage" from time to time >:D and nothing ticks me off more than folks texting on their cells. I think you ought to be able to shoot out there tires and call them in to the Cops with their location for arrest ::) eck, I'd just LOVE to see Cops ticket or pull someone over for doing that here in MI since it is against the law but no one enforces it so no one cares...
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Lee, I think everybody ought to be able to shoot their cars with a dart gun like the comedian Gallagher uses in his act. It sticks and a little flag with STUPID unfurls. When you have six on your car you automatically get pulled over and get a ticket.
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Touche' J-dub.
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Heck yeah, I'd sign up for that one in a heartbeat, can I get those "darts" in .45 cal for my Concealed? LOL
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I had to fire a woman here at the shop a while back she was texting and stumbling through the shop and fell over a pice of beam if I hadn't been in just the right spot to catch her she would have fallen head first into the scrap bin and probably been seriously hurt. We have a strict no cell phone in the shop rule and I enforce it. Ron
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Ronnie;
A lot of the Mines and Chemical Plants I'm working in are banning phone use while driving. You have to pull over and stop if you use your phone. Nothing sucks worse than getting run over by a Michigan Front End loader while texting.
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We Have a no cell phone while driving policy as well. It's a little harder to enforce. If I'm on a back road I will answer but if I have to call out I pull over and I never text while driving I don't even look at the phone.Ronnie
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In Augusta around the medical college there is a lot of foot traffic there have been several pedestrians hit when they walked out under a green light looking at a text and oblivious to what is going on around them. One was even run over and killed by a school bus. There are now crossing cops who write tickets to oblivious pedestrians. Ron
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It's against the law here and yet so many are addicted to doing it that they seem unable or "unwilling to change even with hefty fines. There was a young kid killed on a bike just a few miles down the road, The guy driving was texting. Now facing manslaughter!
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I'll step up (pun intended) to texting and walking just as soon as I master the old walk and chew gum trick. I've been known to trip over a shadow on the sidewalk.
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>:(
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I don't want cops giving tickets to foolish walkers, but I line in a college town and I'm all for the idiot flag/darts. I was behind a chick the other day who missed a green light all together while I was pulling up behind her. We were both going to the fabric store. She apologised, and I told her, "at least you wern't on your phone." She was digging around in the back seat. ;D I don't even have a cell phone, miss them rarely.
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road rage can be eliminated with 3 words. say it out loud.. i forgive you.... then shoot, now dont that feel better.
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I put in 80 miles a day on the interstate, and I couldn't count how many times I've been about run out of the road by people texting. And texting and driving is illegal here.
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The sad thing is I've been riding behind Deputy Sheriff's here and watched them run off the road while they were driving and typing on their computers. :(
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The sad thing is I've been riding behind Deputy Sheriff's here and watched them run off the road while they were driving and typing on their computers. :(
Wonder what kinda porn he was looking up?
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driving out of my schools' parking lot with every spot filled in an SUV,
that's scary, the mix of texting and no driving skill really scares me some days
noel
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Same problem here all the time. I just honk and hold the horn if I can see em texting at the light. Right when it turns green I'm honking and flipping them off. Seriously its annoying. Makes me so mad I just wanna ram them from behind and call em a dumbsh!t
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Here's a young lady who did her engineering masters thesis (http://www.ladyada.net/pub/research.html) at MIT on a cell phone jammer, for "people [who] find themselves surrounded by technologies they find frustrating or annoying." Apparently she can't sell it because of FCC laws, but has posted all the circuit schematics (http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/index.html) if you'd like to build one yourself (see the links at left).
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if only i knew how o to build one, i would carry it in school all day and teachers would praise me ;D
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In many restaurants and ALL movie theaters in Japan have cell phone jammers running. Good idea!
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Gun Doc,
That is great advice. A few years back Diego and I were going camping. One last stop was Walmart and Taco Bell on the way out of town. As I pulled into the drive-tru line the person behind me sped up, started honking and then slammed on their brakes. I ignored it until as the line moved he did the speed up, slam on brakes bit.
I was in my 94 camry. Without thinking I flung the door open, jumps out of my car and threw my arms in the air as I made eye contact and when I started yelling at me, I spoke over him...
I stood there for a while. He didn't get out of his truck, so I got back in my car. When I did he backed out and drove away.
I think I had this reaction because my child and my namesake was in the back seat. In retrospect it was a dumb dumb move, but I wasn't thinking when my fatherly instincts kicked in..
Later I told the story at school in a worse case senerio----
"Two Mexican men battle it out in the Taco Bell drivetru... Must be some good burritos!!
Not cool... 8)
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I can certainly relate to the fatherly instinct. I have no sense of humor when someone is endangering my children or any child for that matter. Glad it didn't turn for the worse at Taco Bell.
Josh
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Yes Sir,
I don't do it and don't like it... while driving that is.
No place to put big rubber bumpers on the front of my truck, and my wife says it would be "Bad Form" to mount a Mini Gun in an auto turret on the roof...
So I guess I'm left with lowering my expectations for my fellow man... or woman...
:o
-gus
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Thinking about having a bumper sticker made that reads, Was gonna flip you off,but you're busy texting.