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Re: Perdue signs texting ban

paulvail — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:57:15 -0400

@kidcounselor: Cell phone use matches or exceeds the risk driving drunk presents on the highway. Cite your sources for the notions about 'correcting children' or adjusting controls. As for reading while driving down the road -- yeah, seen plenty of that. Even in state tagged vehicles. That doesn't make it smart.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

paulvail — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:50:09 -0400

Maybe it is just another tool for the cop who has to wipe my blood off your hood to nail you with yet another fine. Shouldn't be very hard to get your phone use records from your carrier. Consider it a tax on stupid people. I'm all about that. Plenty of people will do this right in front of a cop. Good. If the lawyers don't find ways of watering this down like the speeding tickets, maybe the punch in the wallet will begin to wake up the drivers out there. If this is the nanny state, I'm all about keeping the fools off the road. Driving is a privilege, not a right. One can exercise their right to free speech here with dumb or snide comments, but they should not abuse their privilege by driving stupidly doing 75 mph with a ton of metal tapping to their ever-so-special friends.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

bnadkins — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:11:25 -0400

What about texting while you're driving a boat drunk and then fleeing the scene?

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

Jimmy55 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:49:32 -0400

So she sends out a blanket text- you're in your car and you pick it up to read it while you are driving.

Congrats- She just endangered you and everyone around you.

Inbreeding at its best.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

atlanticboy70 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:21:12 -0400

Get real it makes sense to do this because some people are so ignorant they have to text while driving, causing all of us to be in danger. But enforcing it would be hard for the people who want to argue..with the officer. I will be glad when they ban all cell phones hand held in cars like some other states. I have never used a hand held phone while driving a car, I have since day one use my jawbone/bluetooth. Now I use GPS with my phone...thus hands-free again.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

calypsoman — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:03:53 -0400

Why isn't this law effective IMMEDIATELY? Why wait 5 months?

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

ethanperry — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:15:14 -0400

Gov. Purdue is settling into office just fine.
She has the double talk down to an art. While
recently in Charlotte, she wants taxes raised
so more teachers keep their jobs, but didn't
have much to say about which taxes.

Now she has signed a testing ban that will not
be enforceable. A waste of time on her part and
that of the Legislature.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

prisoner — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:09:46 -0400

Hey Gov..Now that you have signed the bill ( a waste of ink) Let's see you enforce it..

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

pirmin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:33:07 -0400

These comments are cracking me up. As usual, backwater NC is YEARS late to this party...just like the smoking ban. You people wouldn't need a nanny if you weren't so d@mn stupid as to try to drive while texting, lol.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

PaulTerrell — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:26:09 -0400

Instead of coming up with ways lowering taxes on the businesses that create jobs, the Democrats want to be our nanny's while driving. I think we need to ban drining anything while driving and also ban changing your radio station on the radio while driving.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

NoNewGunControl — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:55:22 -0400

Governor Bev "Yes I was the Lt. Governor, But I Never knew Anything about anything that was going on" Perdue... returned to the Office between face lifts this week, to sign some tough legislation on texting while driving. She'll disappear again next week to get that wrinkley old chicken skin on her neck problem taken care of, and think of more ways to raise taxes.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

BitterEXdemocrat — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:55:06 -0400

Bev has been called out bigtime today for cutting off a county commissioners microphone recently when she did not like the line of questioning...she is also compelled to answer questions on live radio which she MAY not have the GUTS to do!

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

BitterEXdemocrat — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:52:15 -0400

ok Bev...now have you and the 'crackkks dreamed up some more new taxes after the 100 new ones last week?

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

PowderedToastMan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:27:03 -0400

Why in the world isn't she signing a bill to ban yapping on the cell phone while driving too? Too many idiots don't pay attention to the road while they're yapping on the phone. You're not driving a phonebooth damn it.

Re: Perdue signs texting ban

alroger3 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:19:23 -0400

I've almost been hit more times by people who are just plain idiots. Everyone is correct--there is no way to enforce this law; it is a feel-good piece of legislation; and legislators and the gov need to try not to break their arms patting themselves on the back for this waste of time.