Thread: Just In Case: (Texting While Driving)
TRX
January 14th, 2014
Back when cellular phones started becoming popular, I had a number of "close encounters" with morons who were talking on their phones. Back in the day, a remarkable number of people would hold the phone to their ear and look up and toward the right; now they just hunch over and peer at their screens.
I made a vow almost 20 years ago, that if one of those people ever hit me, the next person who saw their phone would be a proctologist. And, with modern phone becoming ever-larger, some of those people are going to be in a world of hurt...
TRX
January 14th, 2014
Originally Posted by detective
you can buy "Cell-Phone-Disconnectors", you press a button on a small device
and for 30'-40' distance cell-phones disconnect. Boy would I like to have one
of those in certain situations, but as its a felony here don't think I will.
Some years ago you could buy "cell phone jammers." They were marketed heavily to restaurants, theaters, etc. I have no idea of the legal status nowadays.
The local hospital is small enough it doesn't have a doctor on staff. It took four hours for one to arrive after I got hauled in after being run over by a car. No painkillers, no nothing, until the Holy One showed up. I ended up with one leg shorter than the other and a permanent limp. Turned out the battery in his pager was dead, or some excuse.
A few years later, when cellphones came out, and I started seeing ads for jammers, I made a public statement, which I will reiterate: if I'm denied care again, and it turns out some wipe was jamming the doctor's signal, there would be bloody hell to pay. And if it happened to my wife, or if she died because of it, I would put the videos of my vengeance on Youtube, and people would vomit when they watched them. And I'd cheerfully do the jail time, assuming I got convicted.
Some people have damned good reason to carry a cellphone. And if you start jamming their signals, you'll pay the price.
[edit: corrected "on call" to "on staff."]