There is a politician who wants to enact a bill to make it illegal to drive
while talking on a cell phone. Now, I'm not against them wanting to ban
cell phone use. What I am against is the fact that they feel they have to
make this a law.
A few weeks ago there was a tragedy where a woman drove off the road and into a
canal with her young son in the car. Both she and her son drowned, she had
been talking on the phone while driving. I am not trying to belittle the
tragedy, I think it's terrible what happened. But let me tell you, this
stretch of road is bad. It's had enough problems that the local
politicians have been trying to get it moved away from the canal for years.
This woman lived in the area so she was aware of this roads level of danger.
It was also snowing, pretty badly actually. So I ask you, what the hell
was this woman doing chatting away on her phone?
Have we lost our common sense completely? I mean if the government or
manufacturer doesn't tell us not to do something does that mean we should do it?
In that case I'm going right into the kitchen, turning my burners on and once they've gotten nice and red hot I'm going to put my hands down on them. I mean, no where in the manufacturers manual does it have a warning "Burners Hot When Turned On - Do Not Touch". The government haven't made it illegal for me to put my hands down on those hot burners, so it must be safe right?
So this politician wants to ban cell phone use when driving a car, why stop
at that. Lets ban all things that might distract a driver. Like the
radio, how many times has someone gotten into an accident because the radio was
on and couldn't hear, or they were busy playing with the dial, or
adjusting the volume. No, lets just get rid of radios that way we'll all
be safer. By why stop there, what about eating in the car. Drivers
should be watching the road, not their fries and Big Mac.
And what about all the times I've seen women driving along while putting make up
in their car. C'mon folks, how the hell can you be watching the road and
your face in the mirror at the same time?
And lets not forget what researchers are calling the number one distraction to a
driver while operating a vehicle, children. How many times has a driver
had to turn around and yell at their kids in the backseat? All that
screaming and other noise distractions, no I don't think we should allow
children to be present in a moving vehicle, just in case they cause an accident.
C'mon people. Lets just start to use our brains more often. If a cup of coffee is fresh and steaming, chances are that it's hot so make sure you don't spill it in your lap. And if you do, and you sue the makers of that cup of coffee, you should get your ass kicked by the supreme court justices for being such a dumb ass. And you defiantly should not be allowed to reproduce because introducing your genes into the gene pool of the world will only ensure that future generations might actually play with fire and get burned, then blame the leaders of the world for not warning them that fire is hot.
Sometimes I wonder how the hell the mankind managed to make it all the way from caveman, to pioneer to modern day idiot when there weren't any warning labels to tell them what was safe to eat, what to touch, what not to touch, and not to jump into the fire for fear of getting burned.
10:25 a.m. - February 24, 2006
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