Stop using your mobile when driving!!!

Merlin the Magician

Merlin the Magician

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The Honda motorcycle rider was travelling at approximately 85mph.
The VW driver... was talking on a cell phone when she pulled out from a side street, apparently not seeing the motorcycle. The rider's reaction time was not sufficient enough to avoid this accident.

The car had two passengers and the bike rider was found INSIDE the car with them.
The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the force of impact and landed 20 feet from where the collision took place.

All three involved (two in the car and the bike rider) were killed instantly.

This graphic demonstration was placed at the Motorcycle Fair by the Police and Road Safety Department..

Pass this on to car drivers or soon to be new drivers, or new motorcycle owners AND ESPECIALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO HAS a mobile PHONE!!!!!

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Save a life!

Stop talking on mobile phones and Texting while trying to drive.
The life you save may be your own..... or mine...


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Agree this type of behaviour is extremely dangerous -- on a par with drunk driving.

I came out of Sainsburys the other day to find a woman trying to reverse her massive 4x4 into a space alongside my car while yapping on her mobile. I had a go at her and she told me to "f**k off". All too typical of the ignorant attitudes prevalent in society today.
 
michael_o said:
Agree this type of behaviour is extremely dangerous -- on a par with drunk driving.

I came out of Sainsburys the other day to find a woman trying to reverse her massive 4x4 into a space alongside my car while yapping on her mobile. I had a go at her and she told me to "f**k off". All too typical of the ignorant attitudes prevalent in society today.
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Was she hot?
 
I hope you ostentatiously took her numberplate, MO, and made a show of (pretending) to call it in on your mobile. Seriously, we do have an Operation Crackdown operating in Sussex where all illegal driving can be noted. You could then say to her, in a cheerful and pleasant way, that the fuzz were now looking at her mobile phone records, and she could expect a brown envelope very soon with a summons. If you can't spread a little fear and loathing from time to time...
 
Sainsburys' car park wouldn't be classified as a public road, so I doubt if she was committing any offence. Anyway, when the red mist descends, I'm incapable of cool, rational action.
 
I can't say I approve of the extent to which flippancy has been introduced into what should be a serious thread, but I have to chuckle.
 
On a sort of similar subject, whilst not being dangerous, I feel the same about mobile phone usage on trains. It's beyond rude. Blaring on about crap or conducting a full business conference call in the middle of a carriage, nobody wants to hear it. I was on the train the other day and one guy spent half the journey between London and Brighton ordering his girlfriend/mother which pizzas to get from Sainsburys.

I'd like us to go the way of Japan where it's considered incredibly rude to have a phone conversation on public transport and everyone goes to the ends of the carriage if they want to use their phone for a voice conversation.
 
Why isn't there the same plethora of derogatory remarks for ageing men trying to look younger, or ageing men, full stop. Does the word skank apply to males as much as females? And why should it apply to 'old' people at all, just because they're old? I've never got the genetically-programmed ageism inherent in British and, it seems, Irish societies. I don't say you'd have to be over-deferential to the ancients, as per Chinese culture, but hey, no need to be forever judging women by whether you want to shag them or have them as your house cleaner. No wonder half of you lot can't find anyone to go out with you!
 
michael_o said:
I came out of Sainsburys the other day to find a woman trying to reverse her massive 4x4 into a space alongside my car while yapping on her mobile. I had a go at her and she told me to "f**k off". All too typical of the ignorant attitudes prevalent in society today.
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I can reverse park my truck (6lt Chevy Silverado....) while on the phone...and Sainsbury's Carpark isn't a public road....
 
Gamla Stan said:
On a sort of similar subject, whilst not being dangerous, I feel the same about mobile phone usage on trains. It's beyond rude. Blaring on about crap or conducting a full business conference call in the middle of a carriage, nobody wants to hear it. I was on the train the other day and one guy spent half the journey between London and Brighton ordering his girlfriend/mother which pizzas to get from Sainsburys.

I'd like us to go the way of Japan where it's considered incredibly rude to have a phone conversation on public transport and everyone goes to the ends of the carriage if they want to use their phone for a voice conversation.
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On rail first class (sorry not aware of the operating company?) they do now have phone free carriages a mate of mine travels first class between Cheltenham and Paddington on a regular basis and told me he chooses one of these carriages as he can't stand listening to idiots talking on their mobiles all the rubbish they talk, oh and they supply THE TIMES newspaper free too...........
 
krizon said:
Why isn't there the same plethora of derogatory remarks for ageing men trying to look younger, or ageing men, full stop. Does the word skank apply to males as much as females? And why should it apply to 'old' people at all, just because they're old? I've never got the genetically-programmed ageism inherent in British and, it seems, Irish societies. I don't say you'd have to be over-deferential to the ancients, as per Chinese culture, but hey, no need to be forever judging women by whether you want to shag them or have them as your house cleaner. No wonder half of you lot can't find anyone to go out with you!
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You're right, the thread has taken a completely ludicrous turn, and I wouldn't go out with any of the men on here either, at least not in the sense you mean, but being a man myself makes that less surprising, I suppose.

I have to accept that there has been a load of sexist nonsense here. Imagine suspecting a man's main concern while watching his car getting mashed might be whether the lady driver involved is hot or not.
 
Grey said:
You're right, the thread has taken a completely ludicrous turn, and I wouldn't go out with any of the men on here either, at least not in the sense you mean, but being a man myself makes that less surprising, I suppose.

I have to accept that there has been a load of sexist nonsense here. Imagine suspecting a man's main concern while watching his car getting mashed might be whether the lady driver involved is hot or not.
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Here here, I wouldn't go out with myself in a million years.:D
 
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