Thursday, June 11, 2009
More Cell Phone Talk
Today, our Massachusetts legislators are debating how severe of a cell phone ban should be enacted into law. Rest assured law-lovers, that there will be at least a ban on texting while driving. This debate has been going on publicly for a while now and really heated up when the “child in a man’s body”, working as a trolley driver for the MBTA, smashed into the trolley ahead of him. This man-child with a cell phone fettish became the scape goat for the T's inept hiring and training practices and it worked like a chiming cell ringer as everyone focused on the texting issue rather than the real problem. Most people are already tired of talking about cell phones (as opposed to the ever popular talking ON cell phones) yet most, unfortunately, entirely miss the point. In order to keep it simple, we have some questions to ask all the “lovers of making laws” out there, beyond our Wahey world. Why can’t police stop anyone, right now (you know, like today, before the ban goes into effect) for driving erratically? Don’t they pull people over for “suspected” drunk driving? So what difference will the law make? And lastly, shouldn’t our congress people be working on important things like the budget crisis and getting people back to work? There’s no sense passing a law banning cell phones, if no one can afford to buy one.
Let’s face it, anyone that wants a ban on anything, only wants what won’t affect them. For example, those that wear the foolish cell phone ear-jacks think they’re doing the world a favor, as if they’re never distracted while talking. A texting only ban will reinforce that theory until someone dies because they didn’t hear the ambulance behind them while they were talking on their “hands free” cell. Then we’ll all be having the discussion again for an amendment to the amendment.
We can just see some squealer jotting down the license plate number of a cell phone violator and smashing into him while he’s writing, and the cell phone suspect getting the ticket, then bringing everyone to court. Guess who benefits from the law then? And here's another one, how about we pull over to the side of the road to take an important call? Smart move, right? That is until someone adjusting the radio drifts over and hits you. Whose at fault then? The insurance companies and lawyers will be raking in the money.
No matter what happens today regarding new laws, here in Wahey-land some of us will wear our seat belts and some won’t, some will talk on the cell while we drive and some won’t, some of us will even exceed the speed limit if you can imagine that, and some of us might even get caught; and throughout it all, the insurance rates will continue to climb, the vehicle accident rate will continue to climb and medical costs will continue to climb because everyone’s worried about things they have no control over.
POSTED BY STAN at June 11, 2009
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